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tra·gi·cus (mus·cle)

[TA]

one of the auricular muscles occurring as a band of vertical muscular fibers on the outer surface of the tragus of the auricle.

Synonym(s): musculus tragicus [TA], muscle of tragus, Valsalva muscle

tragicus

(trăj′ĭk-ŭs) [L.]

The muscle on the outer surface of the tragus.

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Die alteste Belegstelle dieser Mystik ist eine Stelle beim judischen Dichter Ezechkiel Tragicus, der im zweiten vorchristlichen Jahrhundert in Alexandrien gelebt haben mag (Quispel 1981:416).

Vier gnostischen mythologeme und ihr judischer hintergrund

Bach's Actus tragicus (BWV 106) and those in Peter Holman's workshop on performing French Baroque orchestral music grappled with unknowns as fundamental as intended pitch (a = ?

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5) The text contains many allusions to Virgil, Ovid and Seneca tragicus (esp.

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But on Sunday at Armitage Bridge the early music group Kirklees Baroque plays some of Bach's many shorter choral works for the Easter season, including the magnificent cantata Christ Lag In Todes Banden and Actus Tragicus, "the finest masterpiece of Bach's youth," says artistic diretor David Vickers.