Isis (disambiguation)

Isis is a goddess from the polytheistic pantheon of Egypt.

Isis or ISIS may also refer to:

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Isis (band)

Isis (stylized as ISIS) was a Los Angeles-based post-metal band, founded in Boston, Massachusetts, with a career spanning from 1997 to 2010. They borrowed from and helped to evolve a sound pioneered by the likes of Neurosis and Godflesh, creating heavy music consisting of lengthy songs that focus on repetition and evolution of structure.

The band's last album, Wavering Radiant, was released on 5 May 2009. They disbanded in June 2010, just before the release of a split EP with the Melvins.

History

Formation and early releases (1997–2001)

Isis (song)

"Isis" is a ballad written by Bob Dylan in collaboration with Jacques Levy, in July 1975. The song is the second track on the Bob Dylan album Desire.

Description

This song is in a moderately fast 3/4 time, in the key of B-flat major. The arrangement is based on rhythm chords played on acoustic piano, accompanied by bass guitar, drums, and violin. The harmonic progression consists of an ostinato using the following chords throughout:

Ⅰ–ⅤⅠⅠ♭–Ⅳ–Ⅰ
B♭–A♭–E♭–B♭

The lyrics are all verses; there is no chorus. The melody is in the style of a modal folk song, emphasizing the tonic and dominant notes in the scale, with leaps of a fifth in between them. The mode is Mixolydian with a major third in the harmony, but Dylan's delivery of the melody and Rivera's violin accompaniment use a flatted third as in the blues.

Song Narrative

Root (disambiguation)

A root is the part of a plant that is below ground.

Root or roots may also refer to:

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Roots franchise

Root (band)

Root are a Czech black metal band.

Biography

Root were formed by vocalist Big Boss and guitarist Blackie in late 1987. According to Big Boss, in the beginning, they knew no foreign bands and could do no tape trading. Although the first demo recording mentioned on their homepage's discography section is Deep in Hell, according to their biography, they recorded their first official demo tape Reap of Hell after a few rehearsals. Root played their first concert in September 1988. The next demo cassette War of Rats was released in 1988, followed by Messengers from Darkness in 1989. Vocalist Big Boss played drums on these recordings. Whereas Messengers from Darkness is mentioned as "the third and last" demo cassette in their biography, the discography section lists The Trial as the last one.

In 1990, the band released the single 7 černých jezdců / 666, with artwork done by Master's Hammer vocalist František Štorm. To promote their first album, Zjevení (again with artwork by Štorm), they recorded a video for their song "Hrbitov", released on the Czech Death Metal Session compilation, with photographs by Štorm. Zjevení was also released as The Revelation.

Root (chord)

In music theory, the concept of root denotes the idea that a chord could be represented and named by one of its notes. It is linked to harmonic thinking, that is, to the idea that vertical aggregates of notes form a single unit, a chord. It is in this sense that one can speak of a "C chord", or a "chord on C", a chord built from C and of which C is the root. The root needs not be the bass note of the chord: the concept of root is linked to that of the inversion of chords, itself deriving from the notion of invertible counterpoint.

In tertian harmonic theory, that is in a theory where chords can be considered stacks of thirds (e.g. in common practice tonality), the root of a chord is the note on which the thirds are stacked. For instance, the root of a triad such as C-E-G is C, independently of the order in which the three notes are presented. A triad knows three possible positions, a "root position" with the root in the bass, a first inversion, e.g. E-G-C, and a second inversion, e.g. G-C-E, but the root remains the same in all three cases. Four-note seventh chords know four positions, five-note ninth chords know five positions, etc., but the root position always is that of the stack of thirds, and the root is the lowest note of this stack (see also Factor (chord)).