In Music
See also: Eleven (disambiguation)#Music- The interval of an octave and a fourth is an 11th. A complete 11th chord has almost every note of a diatonic scale.
- The number of thumb keys on a bassoon, not counting the whisper key. (A few bassoons have a 12th thumb key.)
- In the mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, Spinal Tap's amplifiers go up to eleven.
- In Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, there are 11 consecutive repetitions of the same chord.
- In Tool's song Jimmy, and in Negativland's song Time Zones the number 11 is heard numerous times in the lyrics.
- "Eleven pipers piping" is the gift on the 11th day of Christmas in the carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas"
- The Eleven is a song by The Grateful Dead.
- Eleven Records is the record label of Jason Webley, and many of Webley's works feature the number 11.
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“If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves.... The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Brünnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni.”
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“Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears;
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List to the heavy part the music bears,
“Woe weeps out her division when she sings.”
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