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

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is a The Shadows Free Music term that describes the composition of a piece The Shadows Free Music of music. Methods of composition vary widely from one composer to another, however in analysing music all forms The Shadows Free Music � spontaneous, trained, The Shadows Free Music or untrained � are built from elements comprising a musical piece. Music can be composed for repeated performance or it can be improvised: composed

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on the The Shadows Free Music spot. The music can The Shadows Free Music be performed entirely from memory, from a written system The Shadows Free Music of musical notation, or The Shadows Free Music some combination of The Shadows Free Music both. Study of composition has traditionally been dominated by examination of methods and practice of Western classical music, but the definition of composition is broad enough to include spontaneously improvised works like those of free jazz performers Ashley Tisdale Music Videos and African drummers. What is

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important in understanding the The Shadows Free Music composition of a piece is singling out its The Shadows Free Music elements. An understanding of music's formal elements can be helpful in deciphering exactly how a piece is constructed. A universal The Shadows Free Music element of The Shadows Free Music music The Shadows Free Music is how sounds occur in time, which is referred to as the rhythm of a piece of music. When a piece appears to have The Shadows Free Music a changing time-feel, it is considered The Shadows Free Music to be in rubato time, an Italian expression that indicates that the tempo of the piece changes to The Shadows Free Music suit the expressive intent of the performer. Even random placement of random sounds, which occurs in musical montage, occurs within some kind of time, and thus employs time as

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a musical element. Notation is the written expression of music notes and rhythms on paper using symbols. When music The Shadows Free Music is written down, the pitches and The Shadows Free Music rhythm of the music is notated, along with instructions on how to perform the music. The study of how to read notation

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involves music theory, harmony, the study of performance practice, and in some cases an understanding of historical performance methods. Written notation varies with style and period of music. In Western Art music, the most common types The Shadows Free Music of written notation are scores, which The Shadows Free Music include all the music parts of an ensemble piece, The Shadows Free Music and parts, which are the music notation The Shadows Free Music for the individual performers or singers. In popular music, jazz, and blues, the standard musical notation is the lead sheet, which notates the melody, chords, lyrics (if The Shadows Free Music it is a vocal piece), and structure of the music. Scores and parts are also used in The Shadows Free Music popular music and jazz, particularly in large ensembles such as jazz "big bands." In popular music, guitarists and electric bass players often The Shadows Free Music read music The Shadows Free Music notated in tablature, which indicates the location of the notes to be played on the instrument using a diagram of the guitar or bass fingerboard. Tabulature was also used in The Shadows Free Music the Baroque era to notate music for the lute, a stringed, fretted instrument. Notated music is produced as sheet music. To perform music from notation requires an understanding of both The Shadows Free Music the musical style and the performance practice that is associated with a piece of music or genre. Improvisation is the creation of spontaneous music. Improvisation is often The Shadows Free Music considered an Best Background Rock Music act of instantaneous composition by composers, where compositional techniques are employed with or without preparation. Music theory encompasses the nature and mechanics of music. It often The Shadows Free Music involves identifying patterns that govern composers' techniques. In a more

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detailed sense, music theory The Shadows Free Music (in the western system) also distills and analyzes The Shadows Free Music the elements of music � rhythm, harmony (harmonic function), melody, structure, and texture. People who study these properties are known

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as music theorists. The field of music cognition The Shadows Free Music involves the study of many The Shadows Free Music aspects of music including how it is processed by listeners. The Shadows Free Music Rather than accepting the standard practices of analyzing, The Shadows Free Music composing, and performing music as a given,

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much research in music cognition seeks instead to uncover the mental processes that The Shadows Free Music underlie these practices. Also, research in the field seeks to uncover commonalities between the musical traditions of The Shadows Free Music disparate cultures and possible cognitive "constraints" that limit The Shadows Free Music these musical The Shadows Free Music 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 The Shadows Free Music feeling the vibrations in their body, a The Shadows Free Music process which can be The Shadows Free Music enhanced if the individual holds a resonant, hollow object. A well-known deaf musician is the composer Ludwig van Beethoven, who composed many famous works even after he had completely Free Graduation Music lost his hearing. Recent examples of deaf The Shadows Free Music musicians include Evelyn Glennie, a highly acclaimed percussionist who has The Shadows Free Music been The Shadows Free Music deaf since age twelve, and Chris Buck, The Shadows Free Music a virtuoso violinist who has lost his hearing. The Shadows Free Music This The Shadows Free Music is relevant because it indicates that music is The Shadows Free Music a deeper cognitive process than unexamined phrases such as, "pleasing to the ear" would suggest. Much research in music cognition seeks to uncover these complex The Shadows Free Music mental processes involved in The Shadows Free Music listening to music, which

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may The Shadows Free Music seem intuitively simple, yet are vastly intricate and complex.The The Shadows Free Music music that composers make can be heard through several media; the most The Shadows Free Music traditional way is to hear it live, in The Shadows Free Music the presence, or as one of the musicians. Live music can also be broadcast over The Shadows Free Music the radio, television or the The Shadows Free Music internet. Some musical styles focus on producing a sound for The Shadows Free Music a performance, while others The Shadows Free Music focus on producing The Shadows Free Music a recording which mixes together sounds which were never played "live". Recording, even of styles which are essentially live, often uses the ability to edit and splice The Shadows Free Music to Play Country Music Online produce recordings which are considered better than the actual performance. As talking pictures emerged in the early 20th century, with their prerecorded musical tracks, The Shadows Free Music an increasing number of moviehouse

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orchestra musicians found themselves out of work.[6] During the 1920s live musical performances by orchestras, pianists,

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and theater organists were The Shadows Free Music common at first-run theaters[7] With the coming of the talking motion pictures, The Shadows Free Music those Gibson Music featured performances were largely The Shadows Free Music eliminated. The Shadows Free Music The AFM took out newspaper advertisements protesting the replacement of live musicians with mechanical The Shadows Free Music playing devices. One 1929 ad that appeared in the Pittsburgh Press The Shadows Free Music features an image of a The Shadows Free Music can labeled The Shadows Free Music "Canned Music / Big Noise Brand / Guaranteed to Produce No Intellectual or Emotional Reaction Whatever" Since legislation introduced The Shadows Free Music to help The Shadows Free Music protect The Shadows Free Music performers, composers, publishers The Shadows Free Music and producers, including the Audio Home Recording Act of The Shadows Free Music 1992 in the United States, and the The Shadows Free Music 1979 revised

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Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works in the United Kingdom, recordings and live performances have also become

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more accessible through computers, devices and internet in a form that is commonly known as music-on-demand. In many cultures, there is less distinction between performing and listening to music, since virtually everyone is involved in some sort of musical activity, often communal. In industrialised countries, listening to music through a recorded

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form, The Shadows Free Music such as sound recording or watching a music video, became more common than experiencing live performance, roughly in the middle of the 20th century. Sometimes, live

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performances incorporate prerecorded sounds. For example, a DJ uses disc records for scratching, The Shadows Free Music and some 20th-century works have a solo for an instrument or voice The Shadows Free Music that The Shadows Free Music is performed along with music that is prerecorded Free Afghan Music onto a tape. Computers and many keyboards The Shadows Free Music can be programmed The Shadows Free Music to produce and play MIDI music. Audiences can also The Shadows Free Music become performers by The Shadows Free Music participating in Karaoke, an activity The Shadows Free Music of Japanese origin which centres around a device that The Shadows Free Music plays voice-eliminated Sony Bmg Music Entertainment versions of well-known songs. Most karaoke machines also have video screens that show lyrics to songs being performed; performers can follow the lyrics The Shadows Free Music as they sing over the instrumental tracks. The advent of the Internet has transformed the experience of music, partly through the increased ease of access to music and the increased choice. Chris Anderson, in his book The Shadows Free Music The Long Tail: Why the future of business is selling less of more, suggests that while the economic model of supply and demand describes scarcity, the Internet retail model is based on abundance. Digital storage costs are low, so a The Shadows Free Music company The Shadows Free Music can afford to make its The Shadows Free Music whole The Shadows Free Music inventory available online, giving customers as much choice as possible. It has thus become economically viable to offer

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products The Shadows Free Music that very few people are interested in. Consumers' growing awareness of their increased choice results in a closer association between listening tastes and social identity, and the creation The Shadows Free Music of thousands of The Shadows Free Music niche markets. Another effect of the Internet arises with online communities like Youtube and Myspace. Myspace has made social networking with other musicians easier, and greatly facilitates the distribution of one's music. Youtube also has The Shadows Free Music a large community of both amateur The Shadows Free Music and professional musicians who post videos and comments. Professional musicians also use Youtube as a free publisher The Shadows Free Music of promotional material. Youtube users, for example, no longer The Shadows Free Music only download and listen to mp3s, but also actively create their own.

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According to Tapscott The Shadows Free Music and Williams, there has been a shift from a traditional consumer role to what they call a The Shadows Free Music "prosumer" role, a consumer The Shadows Free Music who both creates The Shadows Free Music and consumes. Manifestations of this in music include The Shadows Free Music the production of mashes, remixes, and music videos by fans.