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Record 1 1998-07-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Parliamentary Language
OBS

Interim supply

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire parlementaire
CONT

... les députés légalisent leur propre carence par le biais des douzièmes provisoires, votés de mois en mois.

OBS

Crédits provisoires.

Spanish

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Record 2 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Music (General)
OBS

(...) the overblowing does not produce the octave, but causes a subdivision of the air-column (...) thus producing the twelfth or fifth above the octave.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Musique (Généralités)
OBS

(...) la première note produite en augmentant la pression n'est (...) pas l'octave, (...) mais la douzième ou quinte de l'octave.

Spanish

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Record 3 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Keyboard Instruments
OBS

--a mutation stop, pitched at the interval of a twelfth above the unison. Its function (...) is to bind the fifteenth to the principal.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à clavier
OBS

--jeu de mutation de l'orgue, à son flûté, qui sert au renforcement de la quinte.

Spanish

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