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musical material, or composition, as held in western classical music. Even when music Cultural Music is notated precisely, there are still 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 Cultural Music termed interpretation. Different performers' interpretations Cultural Music of the same music can vary widely. Composers and song writers Cultural Music who present their own music are interpreting, just as much as those who perform the music of others Cultural Music or folk music. The standard body of choices and techniques present at a given time Cultural Music and a given place Cultural Music is referred to as performance practice, where as interpretation is generally used to mean either individual choices of a performer, or an aspect Cultural Music of music which is not clear, and therefore has a "standard" interpretation. In some musical genres, such as jazz and blues, even more Cultural Music freedom is given Cultural Music to the Cultural Music performer to engage in improvisation on a basic Cultural Music melodic, harmonic, or rhythmic framework. The Cultural Music greatest latitude is given to the performer in a style of performing Cultural Music called free improvisation, which is material that is spontaneously "thought of" (imagined) while being performed, not Cultural Music preconceived. According to the analysis of Georgiana Costescu,[citation needed] improvised

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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 Cultural Music the known sole authorship of one individual. Music can also be determined by describing Cultural Music a Cultural Music "process" which may create musical sounds; examples of this range from wind chimes, through computer programs which select Cultural Music sounds. Music which contains elements selected by chance is called Aleatoric music, and is associated with such composers as John Cage, Morton Cultural Music Feldman, and Witold Lutoslawski. Musical composition is a Cultural Music term that describes the Cultural Music composition of a piece of Cultural Music music. Methods of composition vary widely from one composer to another, Cultural Music however in analysing music all forms � spontaneous, trained, or untrained � are built from elements comprising a musical piece. Music can be composed for repeated performance or it can be improvised: composed Cultural Music on the spot. The music can be performed entirely from memory, from Cultural Music a written Cultural Music system of Chicken Dance Music Video musical notation, or some combination of both. Study of composition has traditionally been dominated by examination of methods and practice of Western classical music, but the

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definition of composition is Cultural Music broad enough to include spontaneously improvised works like those

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of Cultural Music free jazz performers and African drummers. What is important in understanding the composition of a piece is singling out Cultural Music its elements. An Cultural Music understanding of music's formal elements Cultural Music can be helpful in deciphering exactly how a piece is constructed. Cultural Music A universal element of music is

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how sounds occur in time, which is referred to as the rhythm of a piece of music. When a Cultural Music piece appears to have a changing time-feel, it is considered to be in rubato time, an Italian expression that indicates that the tempo of the piece changes to Cultural Music suit the Cultural Music expressive intent of the performer. Even random placement of random sounds, which occurs in musical montage, occurs within Cultural Music 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 is written down, Cultural Music the pitches and rhythm of the music is notated, along with instructions on how to perform the music. The study Cultural Music of how to read notation involves music theory, harmony, the study of performance practice, and in some cases Cultural Music an understanding of historical performance methods. Written notation varies with style and Cultural Music period of music. In Western Art music, the Cultural Music most common types of written Cultural Music notation are scores, which include all the music parts of an ensemble piece, and parts, which are the music notation for the individual performers or singers. In popular music, jazz, and blues, the standard Cultural Music musical Cultural Music notation is the lead sheet, Cultural Music which notates the melody, chords, lyrics (if it is a vocal Cultural Music piece), and structure of the music. Scores and parts are also used in popular music and jazz, particularly in large Music By Nickel Creek ensembles such as jazz "big bands." In popular Cultural Music music, guitarists and electric bass players often read music notated in tablature, which indicates the location of the Cultural Music notes to be played on the instrument using a diagram of the guitar or bass fingerboard. Tabulature was also used in the Baroque era Cultural Music to notate music for the Cultural Music lute, Cultural Music a stringed, fretted instrument. Notated music is produced as sheet music. To perform music from notation requires an understanding of both 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 considered an Cultural Music act of instantaneous composition by composers, where compositional

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techniques are employed with or without preparation. Music Cultural Music theory encompasses the nature and mechanics of music. Cultural Music It often involves identifying patterns that govern composers' techniques. In a more detailed sense, music theory (in the western system) also distills and analyzes the elements of music � rhythm, harmony (harmonic function), melody, structure, and texture. People who study these properties are known Cultural Music as Traditional Circus Music music Cultural Music theorists. The 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 analyzing, composing, and performing music as a given, much research in music cognition seeks instead to

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uncover the Cultural Music mental processes that underlie these practices. Also, research in the Cultural Music field seeks to uncover commonalities between the musical traditions of disparate cultures and possible cognitive "constraints" that limit these musical Cultural Music systems. Questions regarding musical innateness, and emotional responses to music are also major areas of research in

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the field. Deaf people can experience music by feeling the vibrations in their body, a process which can be enhanced if the individual holds a resonant, hollow Cultural Music object. A well-known deaf musician is the composer Ludwig van Beethoven, who composed many famous works even after he had completely lost his hearing. Recent examples of deaf musicians include Cultural Music Evelyn Glennie, a highly acclaimed percussionist who has been deaf since age Cultural Music twelve, and Chris Buck,

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a virtuoso violinist Cultural Music who Alexander Street Music has lost his hearing. This is relevant because it indicates Cultural Music that music is a deeper cognitive process than unexamined phrases such as, "pleasing to the ear"

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would Cultural Music suggest. Much research in music cognition Cultural Music seeks Cultural Music to uncover these complex mental processes involved in listening to music, which may seem intuitively simple, yet are vastly intricate and complex.The music that composers make can be Cultural Music heard Cultural Music through several media; the most traditional way is to hear it live, in the Cultural Music presence, or as one of the musicians. Live music Cultural Music can also be broadcast over Cultural Music the radio, television or Cultural Music the internet. Some Cultural Music musical styles focus on producing Cultural Music a Cultural Music sound for a performance, while Cultural Music others focus on producing Cultural 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 to produce recordings which are considered better Cultural Music than the actual performance. As talking pictures emerged in the early 20th century, with their prerecorded musical tracks, an increasing number of moviehouse orchestra musicians found themselves out of work.[6] During the 1920s live musical performances by orchestras, pianists, and theater organists were common at first-run theaters[7] With the coming of the talking motion pictures, those featured performances were Cultural Music largely eliminated. The AFM took out newspaper advertisements protesting the replacement of live musicians Alhambra School Of Music with mechanical playing devices. One 1929 ad that appeared in Cultural Music the Pittsburgh Press features an image of Cultural Music a can labeled "Canned Music / Big Noise Brand Cultural Music / Guaranteed to Produce No Intellectual or Emotional Reaction Whatever" Since legislation introduced to help protect performers, composers, publishers Cultural Music and producers, including the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 in the United States, and the 1979 revised Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works Cultural Music in the United Cultural Music Kingdom, recordings and live performances have also become more accessible through computers, Cultural Music devices and internet in a form that is commonly known as Cultural Music music-on-demand. In many cultures, there is less distinction

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between performing Cultural Music and listening to music, since virtually everyone is involved in some sort of musical activity, often communal. In industrialised countries, Cultural Music listening to Cultural Music music Cultural Music through a recorded form, such Cultural Music as sound recording or watching a music video, became more common than

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experiencing live performance, Cultural Music roughly in the middle Cultural Music of the 20th century. Sometimes, live performances incorporate prerecorded sounds. For example, a DJ uses disc records for scratching, and some 20th-century works have a solo for an Cultural Music instrument or voice that is performed Cultural Music along with music that is prerecorded onto a tape. Computers and many keyboards can be programmed to produce and Cultural Music play MIDI music.

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Audiences can Cultural Music also Cultural Music become performers by participating in Karaoke, an activity of Japanese origin which centres around Cultural Music a device that plays voice-eliminated versions of well-known songs. Most karaoke machines also have video screens that show lyrics to songs being performed; performers can follow the Cultural Music lyrics as they sing over the instrumental tracks. The advent of the Internet has transformed the experience of music, partly through the increased ease of He S My Brother Music access Cultural Music to music and the increased choice. Chris Anderson, Cultural Music in his book The

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Long Tail: Why the future Cultural Music of business is selling less of more, suggests

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that while the economic model of supply and demand describes scarcity,

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the Live Music Flyer Internet retail model is based on abundance. Digital storage costs are low, so Cultural Music a company can afford Cultural Music to Cultural Music make its whole inventory available online, giving customers as much choice as Cultural Music possible. It has thus become economically viable to offer products that very few people are Cultural Music interested in. Consumers' growing awareness of their increased choice results in a closer association between listening tastes and social identity, and the creation of thousands of Cultural Music niche markets. Another effect of the Internet arises with online communities like Cultural Music Youtube and Myspace. Myspace has made social networking with other musicians easier, and greatly facilitates the distribution of Cultural Music one's music. Youtube also has a large community of both amateur and professional musicians who post videos and comments. Professional musicians also use Youtube as a free publisher Cultural Music of promotional material. Youtube

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users, for example, no longer only download and listen to mp3s, but also Cultural Music actively create Cultural Music their own. According to Tapscott and Williams, there has Cultural Music been Cultural Music a shift from a traditional consumer role to what Cultural Music they call a "prosumer" role, a consumer who both creates Cultural Music and consumes. Manifestations of this in music include the Cultural Music production of mashes, remixes, and music videos by fans.