5/5/2023 0 Comments Latin for namely![]() Combinations of instruments in ensemble performance frequently integrate the tri-ethnic heritage, as, for example, in the Guatemalan ensemble of chirimía, marimba (of African origin), and Mayan drum ( tun or tunkul).Īs mentioned above, Indian cultures throughout Latin America created numerous wind instruments, many of them flutes. The berimbau, a type of musical bow, probably of African origin, became the foundation of music for the Brazilian capoeira. The Spanish classical guitar and the Portuguese viola (a guitarlike instrument with five courses of double strings, as a rule) have become the characteristic folk instruments of Hispanic America and Brazil, respectively. In the Andean area, for example, the common charango is a lutelike or guitarlike instrument of five courses of multiple strings, frequently with a body made of an armadillo shell it sounds quite differently among Indians, who use thin metal strings, and mestizos, who use nylon strings. Yet in practice these instruments respond to different aesthetic outlooks. ![]() The rich Iberian tradition of stringed instruments- guitar and guitarlike instruments, lute, mandolin, harp, and violin-spread rapidly through all of Latin America. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!Īlthough the indigenous cultures used numerous percussion and wind instruments, stringed instruments arrived with the colonists.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives.Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions. ![]() In discussing your results, you are likely to mention a few other pesticides, and you may write “Contact poisons such as A, B, and E are more effective than stomach poisons such as X, Y and Z are in controlling caterpillars.”Īlso note that if you use “such as,” do not end the list with “etc.” Incidentally, most publishers now recommend using “namely” instead of the Latin abbreviation “viz.”, (for videlicet, the z being the old symbol denoting the contraction et). ![]() Similarly, the phrases “such as,” "for example," and "for instance" signal that the list that follows is illustrative, not exhaustive. However, if you say “the pesticides tested included contact poisons A, B, and C,” you give the impression that you tested more than three because the verb “include” is never used when all members of the class are listed. And those were the only pesticides you tested. To mention them, you could rightly say “three pesticides were tested, namely A, B, and C.” You tested three pesticides, A, B, and C, all of them of the type known as contact poisons (effective when they are in direct contact with bodies of the target pests-as against stomach poisons, which have to be ingested). “Namely,” on the other hand, precedes an exhaustive list.Ĭonsider a hypothetical experiment to test pesticides. What the expressions have in common is that they talk about some members of a class but not all of them. Using such expressions as “for example,” “for instance,” "such as," and “including” correctly is important. ![]()
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