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musical material, or composition, as held Production Music Library in western Production Music Library classical music. Even when music is notated precisely, there are still Production Music Library many decisions that a performer has to make. The process of a performer deciding how to perform music that has been previously composed and notated is termed interpretation. Different performers' interpretations of the same music can vary widely. Composers and song writers who Production Music Library present their own music are Production Music Library interpreting, just as much as those who Production Music Library perform the music Production Music Library of others or folk music. The standard body of choices and techniques present at a given time and a given place is referred to as performance practice, where Production Music Library as Production Music Library interpretation is generally used to mean either individual choices Production Music Library of a performer, or an aspect of music which is Production Music Library not clear, and therefore has a "standard" interpretation. In some musical genres, such as jazz and blues, even more freedom is given to the performer to engage in improvisation on a basic melodic, harmonic, or rhythmic framework. The greatest latitude is given to the performer in a Production Music Library style of performing called free improvisation, which is material that is spontaneously "thought of" (imagined) while being performed, not preconceived. Production Music Library According to the analysis of Georgiana Costescu,[citation Production Music Library needed] improvised music usually follows stylistic or genre conventions and even "fully composed" includes some freely chosen material. Composition does not always mean the use of notation, or the known sole authorship of one Production Music Library individual. Music can also be determined by describing a "process" which may create musical sounds; examples of Production Music Library this range from wind chimes, through computer programs which select sounds. Music which contains elements selected by chance is called Aleatoric music, and is associated

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with such composers as John Cage, Morton Feldman, and Witold Lutoslawski. Musical composition is a term that describes the composition of a Production Music Library piece of music. Methods of composition vary widely from one composer to Production Music Library another, however in analysing music all forms � Production Music Library spontaneous, trained, or untrained � are built from elements comprising Production Music Library a musical piece. Music can be composed for repeated performance or it can be improvised: composed on the spot. The music can be performed entirely from memory, from a written system of musical Music Tuantrionh notation, or Production Music Library some combination of both. Study of composition Production Music Library has traditionally been dominated by examination of methods and practice of Western classical music, but the definition of composition is broad enough Ares Music Download to include spontaneously improvised works like Production Music Library those of Production Music Library free Production Music Library jazz performers and African drummers. What is important Production Music Library in understanding the composition of a Production Music Library piece is singling out its elements. Production Music Library An understanding of music's formal elements can be helpful in deciphering exactly how a piece is constructed. A universal element of music Production Music Library is how sounds Production Music Library occur in time, which is Production Music Library referred Production Music Library to as the rhythm of Production Music Library a piece of music. When a piece appears to have a changing Production Music Library time-feel, it is considered to Production Music Library be in rubato time, an Italian expression that indicates that the tempo of the piece changes to suit the expressive intent of the performer. Even random placement of random sounds,

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which occurs in musical montage, occurs within some kind of time, and thus Production Music Library employs time as a musical element. Notation is the written expression of music notes and rhythms Music Transcription on paper using symbols. When music is written down, the pitches and rhythm of Production Music Library the music is notated, along with instructions on how Production Music Library to perform the music. The study of how to read notation involves music theory,

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harmony, the study of performance practice, Production Music Library and in some Production Music Library cases an understanding of historical performance methods. Written notation varies with Production Music Library style and period of music. In Western Art Production Music Library music, the most Production Music Library common types of written notation are scores, which include all the music parts of an ensemble piece, and Production Music Library parts, which are the music Play My Music Lyrics notation for the individual performers or singers. In popular music, jazz, and blues, the standard musical notation Production Music Library is the Music Causing Violence lead sheet, which notates the melody, chords, lyrics Production Music Library (if it

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is a vocal piece), and structure of the music. Scores and parts are also used in Production Music Library popular music and Production Music Library jazz, Production Music Library particularly in large ensembles such as jazz Production Music Library "big bands." In popular music, guitarists and electric bass players often read music notated Production Music Library in tablature, which Production Music Library indicates the location of the notes to Production Music Library be played on the instrument using a diagram of the guitar or bass fingerboard. Tabulature Production Music Library was

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also used in the Production Music Library Baroque era to Production Music Library notate music for the lute, a stringed, fretted instrument. Notated music is Production Music Library produced as sheet music. To perform music from notation requires an understanding of both the Production Music Library musical style and the performance practice Production Music Library that is associated with a piece of Production Music Library music or genre. Improvisation is the creation of spontaneous music. Improvisation is often considered an act of instantaneous composition Production Music Library by composers, where compositional techniques are employed with Production Music Library or without preparation. Music theory encompasses the nature and mechanics of music. It often involves identifying patterns that govern composers' techniques. In a more detailed sense, music theory (in Production Music Library the western system) Production Music Library also Production Music Library distills Production Music Library and analyzes the elements of music � rhythm, harmony (harmonic function), melody, structure, and texture. People Production Music Library who study these properties are known as music theorists. The Production Music Library field of music cognition involves the study of many aspects of music including how it is processed by listeners. Rather than accepting the standard practices of Production Music Library analyzing, composing, and performing music as a given, much research in music cognition seeks instead to uncover the mental processes that underlie these practices. Also, research in the field seeks to uncover commonalities between the musical traditions of disparate cultures and possible Production Music Library cognitive "constraints" that limit these musical systems. Questions regarding musical innateness, and emotional responses to music are also major areas of research in the field. Deaf people can experience music by feeling the vibrations in their body, a process which can be enhanced if the individual Production Music Library holds a resonant, hollow object. A well-known deaf musician is the composer Ludwig van Beethoven, who composed many Production Music Library famous works even after he had completely lost his hearing. Recent examples of deaf Production Music Library musicians include Evelyn Glennie, a highly acclaimed percussionist who has been deaf Production Music Library since age twelve, and Chris

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Buck, a virtuoso violinist who has lost his hearing. This is relevant because Production Music Library it indicates that music is a deeper cognitive process than Production Music Library unexamined phrases such as, "pleasing to the Production Music Library ear" would suggest. Much research in music cognition seeks to Production Music Library uncover these complex mental processes involved in listening to music, Production Music Library which may seem intuitively simple, yet are vastly intricate

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and complex.The music that composers make can be heard through several media; the most traditional way is to hear it Production Music Library live, in the presence, or as Production Music Library one of the musicians. Live music can also be Production Music Library broadcast over the radio, Production Music Library television or the internet. Some musical

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styles focus on producing a sound Production Music Library for a performance, while others focus on Production Music Library producing a recording which mixes together sounds which were never Production Music Library played "live". Recording, even of styles which are essentially live, often uses the ability to edit and splice to produce recordings which are considered better than the actual performance. As talking pictures emerged in the early 20th century, with their prerecorded musical

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tracks, an increasing number of moviehouse orchestra musicians found themselves out of work.[6] During the 1920s Production Music Library live musical performances by orchestras, pianists, Production Music Library and theater organists were common at first-run theaters[7] With the coming of the talking motion pictures, those featured performances were largely Production Music Library eliminated. The AFM took out newspaper advertisements protesting the replacement of live musicians with mechanical playing devices. One Production Music Library 1929 ad Production Music Library that appeared in the Pittsburgh Press features an World Warii Music image of a can labeled "Canned Music / Big Noise Brand / Guaranteed to Produce Production Music Library No Intellectual or Emotional Reaction Production Music Library Whatever" Since legislation introduced to help protect performers, composers, publishers and producers, including the Production Music Library Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 in the United States, and the 1979 revised Berne Convention for Production Music Library the Protection Dfw Radio Tv News Music Magazine of Literary and Artistic Works in the United Production Music Library Kingdom, recordings Production Music Library and live performances have also become more accessible through computers, devices and internet in a Production Music Library form that is commonly known as music-on-demand. In many cultures, there is less distinction between performing Production Music Library and listening to music, since virtually everyone is involved in some sort of musical activity, often communal. In Production Music Library industrialised countries, listening to music through a recorded form, such as Production Music Library sound recording or watching a Production Music Library music Production Music Library video, became Myspace Music Generators more common than experiencing

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live performance, roughly in the middle of the 20th century. Sometimes, live performances incorporate prerecorded sounds. For example, a DJ uses disc records Production Music Library for scratching, and Production Music Library some 20th-century works have a

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solo for an instrument or voice that is performed along with music that is prerecorded onto a tape. Computers and many keyboards can be programmed to produce and play MIDI music. Audiences can also become Production Music Library performers by participating in Hide Myspace Music Karaoke, an activity Production Music Library of Japanese origin which centres around a device that plays voice-eliminated versions of well-known songs. Production Music Library Most karaoke machines also have video screens that show lyrics to songs being performed; performers can follow the lyrics as they sing over the instrumental tracks. The advent of the Internet has transformed Production Music Library the experience of music, partly through the increased Production Music Library ease of access Production Music Library to music and the increased choice. Chris Anderson, in his book The Production Music Library Long Tail: Why the future of business is selling less of more, suggests that while the Production Music Library economic model of Production Music Library supply and demand describes scarcity, the Internet retail model Production Music Library is based on abundance. Digital storage costs

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are low, so a company can afford to make its whole Production Music Library inventory available online, giving customers as much choice as possible. It has Production Music Library thus become Production Music Library Music Rescue economically viable to offer products that very few people are Production Music Library interested in. Consumers' growing Production Music Library awareness of their Production Music Library increased choice results in a closer association between listening tastes and social identity, and the creation of thousands of niche markets. Another effect of the Internet arises with online communities like Youtube and Myspace. Production Music Library Myspace has made social networking with Production Music Library other musicians easier, and greatly facilitates the distribution of one's music. Youtube also has a large community of both amateur and professional Production Music Library musicians who post videos and Production Music Library comments. Professional musicians also use Youtube as a free publisher of promotional material. Youtube users, for example, no

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longer only download and listen to mp3s, but also actively create their own. According to Tapscott and Williams, there has been a shift from a traditional consumer role to what they call a "prosumer" Production Music Library role, a consumer who both creates and consumes. Manifestations of this in music include the production of mashes, remixes, and music videos by Americana Music fans.