Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history.
The celesta or celeste, also called a bell-piano, is a struck idiophone operated by a keyboard. It looks similar to an upright piano, albeit with smaller keys and a much smaller cabinet, or a large wooden music box (three-octave). The keys connect to hammers that strike a graduated set of metal plates or bars suspended over wooden resonators. Four- or five-octave models usually have a damper pedal that sustains or damps the sound. The three-octave instruments do not have a pedal because of their small "table-top" design. One of the best-known works that uses the celesta is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" from The Nutcracker.
Opus is a Latin word meaning "work". Italian equivalents are opera (singular) and opere (pl.).
Voivode is a title denoting a "military-leader" or "warlord" in Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe since the Early Middle Ages. During the Byzantine Empire it referred to military commanders mainly of Slavic-speaking populations.
Undine is a category of elemental beings associated with water.
A wake is the region of recirculating flow immediately behind a moving solid body.
The common nightingale is a songbird found in Eurasia.
A golem is an artificial animated being in medieval and Jewish folklore.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) was a Russian composer.
Alisa is a female given name and may refer to:
The Snow Maiden: A Spring Fairy Tale is an opera in four acts with a prologue by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composed during 1880–1881.
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare.
Vicky, Vicko, Vick, Vickie or Vicki is a feminine given name, often a hypocorism of Victoria. The feminine name Vicky in Greece comes from the name Vasiliki.
Tchaikovsky and its feminine variant Tchaikovskaya is a common transliteration of the Russian language surname Чайковский. The surname itself is a Russian-language variant of the Polish surname Czajkowski, see this page for name origin.
Vojin is a masculine given name or surname of Slavic origin. It may refer to:
Blackie or Blacky is the nickname of:
Eugene Onegin is a novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin.
None but the Lonely Heart may refer to:
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