What is "harmonium"

Harmonium \Har*mo"ni*um\ (h[aum]r*m[=o]"n[i^]*[u^]m), n. [NL. See Harmony. ] A musical instrument, resembling a small organ and especially designed for church music, in which the tones are produced by forcing air by means of a bellows so as to cause the vibration of free metallic reeds. It is now made with one or two keyboards, and has pedals and stops.

keyboard instrument, 1847, from French harmonium, from Greek harmonia (see harmony). Invented c.1840.

n. (label en music) A small keyboard instrument consisting of a series of reed pipes which sound when air is allowed to pass through them by means of a valve that opens when a key is depressed.

n. a free-reed instrument in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows [syn: organ, reed organ]

1. redirect Pump organ

Category:Indian musical instruments Category:Keyboard instruments Category:Sets of free reeds

Harmonium is the second album by American pop singer-pianist Vanessa Carlton, released by A&M Records in the US on November 9, 2004. Carlton co-wrote some of the album with Stephan Jenkins, her then-boyfriend and the lead singer of Third Eye Blind, who produced the album. Harmonium debuted outside the top 20 on the US Billboard 200, and sales fell considerably short of those of Carlton's debut album, Be Not Nobody (2002). Its only single in the US, " White Houses", was not a top 40 hit; two other singles, "Private Radio" and "Who's to Say", were released only in Asia. The album was a commercial flop, which Carlton attributed to poor promotion, and led to her departure from A&M Records in mid-2005. She toured through the US during 2004 and '05 in support of the album.

Harmonium is a composition for chorus and orchestra that could be considered a choral symphony in all but name, by the American composer John Adams, written in 1980-1981 for the first season of Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, California. The work is based on poetry by John Donne and Emily Dickinson. It is regarded as one of the key compositions of Adams' " minimalist" period. The San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, with conductor Edo de Waart, gave the premiere of the work on 15 April 1981, and subsequently recorded it. The UK premiere was on 13 October 1987 at Birmingham Town Hall, with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) conducted by Simon Rattle. Rattle and the CBSO gave the London premiere on 28 July 1990 at The Proms.

Each movement is a setting of an entire poem:

1. "Negative Love" (by John Donne)
2. " Because I could not stop for Death" (by Emily Dickinson)
3. "Wild Nights" (by Dickinson)

Timothy Johnson has discussed various aspects of the harmonic language of Harmonium in detail. K. Robert Schwarz has noted the influence of the musical techniques of Steve Reich on Harmonium, and also has commented on the less schematic and more "intuitive" manner of Adams' composition in the work.

Harmonium and The Chairman Dances (another work by Adams) were featured in the Civilization IV soundtrack.

A harmonium or pump organ is a type of reed organ that generates sound with foot- or hand-pumped bellows.

Harmonium may also refer to:

• Harmonium (fictional creature), a creature in the 1959 novel The Sirens of Titan
• Harmonium (poetry collection), a 1923 collection of poetry by Wallace Stevens
• Hooke's atom or harmonium, an artificial helium-like atom
• Former name for a restricted Boltzmann machine, a generative stochastic neural network
• The earliest ringtone maker, released in 1997
• Harmonium (film), a 2016 Japanese film

Harmonium was a Quebec progressive rock band formed in 1972 in Montreal.

Harmonium was the eponymous debut album by Québécois band Harmonium released in 1974. It was their most folk driven album, and features the song that made them famous " Pour un instant". It features nowhere near as exotic instrumentation as on their later albums, mostly sticking to simple guitar and bass arrangements, with occurrences of drums on a few songs.

is a 2016 Japanese drama film directed by Kōji Fukada. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Prize.

Harmonium is a book of poetry by American poet Wallace Stevens. His first book at the age of forty-four, it was published in 1923 by Knopf in an edition of 1500 copies. The collection comprises 85 poems, ranging in length from just a few lines (" Life Is Motion") to several hundred (" The Comedian as the Letter C") (see the footnotesFrom the table of contents for Harmonium in Frank Kermode and Joan Richards, editors, ix–xi:

• Earthy Anecdote
• Invective Against Swans
• In the Carolinas
• The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage
• The Plot Against the Giant
• Infanta Marina
• Domination of Black
• The Snow Man
• The Ordinary Women
• The Load of Sugar-Cane
• Le Monocle de Mon Oncle
• Nuances of a Theme by Williams
• Metaphors of a Magnifico
• Ploughing on Sunday
• Cy Est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et Les Unze Mille Vierges
• Hibiscus on the Sleeping Shores
• Fabliau of Florida
• The Doctor of Geneva
• Another Weeping Woman
• Homunculus et La Belle Etoile
• The Comedian as the Letter C
• From the Misery of Don Joost
• O Florida, Venereal Soil
• Last Look at the Lilacs
• The Worms at Heaven's Gate
• The Jack-Rabbit
• Anecdote of Men by the Thousand
• The Silver Plough Boy
• The Apostrophe to Vincentine
• Floral Decorations for Bananas
• Anecdote of Canna
• Of the Manner of Addressing Clouds
• Of Heaven Considered as a Tomb
• Of the Surface of Things
• Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks
• A High-Toned Old Christian Woman
• The Place of the Solitaires
• The Weeping Burgher
• The Curtains in the House of the Metaphysician
• Banal Sojourn
• Depression Before Spring
• The Emperor of Ice-Cream
• The Cuban Doctor
• Tea at he Palaz of Hoon
• Exposition of the Contents of a Cab
• Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock
• Sunday Morning
• The Virgin Carrying a Lantern
• Stars at Tallapoosa
• Explanation
• Six Significant Landscapes
• Bantams in Pine-Woods
• Anecdote of the Jar
• Palace of the Babies
• Frogs Eat Butterflies. Snakes Eat Frogs. Hogs Eat Snakes. Men Eat Hogs.
• Jasmine's Beautiful Thoughts Underneath the Willow
• Cortège for Rosenbloom
• Tattoo
• The Bird with the Coppery, Keen Claws
• Life is Motion
• Architecture
• The Wind Shifts
• Colloquy with a Polish Aunt
• Gubbinal
• Two Figures in Dense Violet Night
• Theory
• To the One of Fictive Music
• Hymn from a Watermelon Pavilion
• Peter Quince at the Clavier
• Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
• Nomad Exquisite
• Tea
• To the Roaring WindPoems Added to Harmonium (1931)
• The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad
• The Death of a Soldier
• Negation
• The Surprises of the Superhuman
• Sea Surface Full of Clouds
• The Revolutionists Stop for Orangeade
• New England Verses
• Lunar Paraphrase
• Anatomy of Monotony
• The Public Square
• Sonatina to Hans Christian
• In the Clear Season of Grapes
• Two at Norfolk
• Indian River for the table of contents). Harmonium was reissued in 1931 with three poems omitted and fourteen new poems added.

Most of Harmonium's poems were published between 1914 and 1923 in various magazines, so most are now in the public domain in America and similar jurisdictions, as the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act affects only works first published after 1922.