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musical material, or composition, as held in western classical music. Even when 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 termed interpretation. Different performers' interpretations of the same music can vary widely. Composers and song Slave Music During Civil War writers who present their own music Slave Music During Civil War are interpreting, Wifi Music Player just as much as those who perform the music of others or folk music. The standard body of choices and techniques present at a given time and Slave Music During Civil War a given place is referred to as performance practice, where as interpretation is generally used to mean either individual Slave Music During Civil War choices of a performer, or an aspect of music which is not clear, and therefore has a Slave Music During Civil War "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 Slave Music During Civil War basic melodic, Slave Music During Civil War harmonic, or rhythmic framework. The greatest Slave Music During Civil War latitude is given to the performer Slave Music During Civil War in a style of performing Slave Music During Civil War called free improvisation, which is Slave Music During Civil War material that is spontaneously "thought of" Slave Music During Civil War (imagined) while being Slave Music During Civil War performed, not Slave Music During Civil War preconceived. According Slave Music During Civil War to the analysis of Georgiana Costescu,[citation needed] improvised music usually follows stylistic or genre conventions and even "fully composed" includes some freely chosen material. Composition does not Slave Music During Civil War Interlaken Mi Music always mean the use of notation, or the known sole authorship of one individual. Music can also be determined by describing a "process" which may create musical sounds; examples of this range from wind chimes, through computer programs Sasquach Music Festival which Slave Music During Civil War select sounds. Music which contains elements selected by chance is called Aleatoric music, and is associated Slave Music During Civil War with such composers as John Cage, Morton Feldman, and Witold Lutoslawski. Musical composition is a term that describes the composition of a piece of music. Methods of composition vary

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composer to Slave Music During Civil War another, however in analysing music all forms � spontaneous, trained, or untrained � are Slave Music During Civil War built Slave Music During Civil War from elements comprising a musical piece. Music can be composed for repeated performance or it can Slave Music During Civil War be improvised: composed on the spot. The music can be performed entirely from memory, from a written system of musical notation, or some combination of both. Study Slave Music During Civil War of composition has traditionally been dominated by examination of methods and practice Slave Music During Civil War of Western classical music, but Slave Music During Civil War the Slave Music During Civil War definition Slave Music During Civil War of composition is broad enough to include spontaneously improvised works like those of Slave Music During Civil War free jazz performers and African Slave Music During Civil War drummers. What is important in understanding the composition of Slave Music During Civil War a piece is

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singling out its elements. An understanding of music's formal elements can be helpful in deciphering exactly how a piece is constructed. A universal element of music is how sounds occur in time, which is referred to as the rhythm of a piece Slave Music During Civil War of music. When Slave Music During Civil War a piece appears to have a changing time-feel, it is considered to be in rubato time, an Italian Slave Music During Civil War expression that indicates that the tempo of the piece changes to suit the expressive intent of the performer. Even random placement of random sounds, which occurs in

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musical montage, occurs Slave Music During Civil War within some Slave Music During Civil War kind of time, and thus Slave Music During Civil War employs time as a musical element. Notation is the written Slave Music During Civil War expression of Slave Music During Civil War music notes and rhythms on paper using Slave Music During Civil War symbols. When music is written down, the pitches and rhythm Slave Music During Civil War of the music is notated, along with instructions on how to perform the music. The Slave Music During Civil War study of how to read notation involves music theory, harmony, the study Slave Music During Civil War 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 of written notation are scores, which include Slave Music During Civil War all the music parts of an ensemble piece, and parts, which are the music notation for Slave Music During Civil War the individual performers or singers. In popular Slave Music During Civil War music, jazz, and blues, the standard musical notation is the lead sheet, which Slave Music During Civil War notates Slave Music During Civil War the melody, chords, lyrics (if Slave Music During Civil War it is a vocal piece), and structure of the music. Scores and parts are also used in popular music and jazz, particularly Slave Music During Civil War in large ensembles such as jazz "big bands." In popular music, guitarists and electric bass players often

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read music notated in tablature, which indicates the location of the notes to be Slave Music During Civil War played on the instrument using a diagram of the guitar or bass fingerboard. Tabulature was also used Slave Music During Civil War in the Slave Music During Civil War Baroque era to notate music for the lute, a stringed, fretted instrument. Notated music is Slave Music During Civil War produced as sheet

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music. To perform music from notation Slave Music During Civil War requires an Slave Music During Civil War understanding Slave Music During Civil War of both the musical style and the performance practice that is associated with a piece of music or genre. Improvisation is the creation of Slave Music During Civil War spontaneous music. Improvisation is often considered an act of instantaneous composition by composers, Slave Music During Civil War where compositional techniques are employed with or without preparation. Music theory encompasses the nature and mechanics of

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music. It often involves identifying patterns that govern composers' techniques. In a more detailed sense, music theory (in the Slave Music During Civil War western system) Slave Music During Civil War also distills and analyzes the elements of music � rhythm, harmony (harmonic function), melody, structure, and texture. People who study these properties are Slave Music During Civil War known Slave Music During Civil War as 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 - Heard Music In Shop analyzing, composing, and performing Slave Music During Civil War music as a given, much research in music cognition seeks instead to Slave Music During Civil War uncover the mental processes that underlie these Slave Music During Civil War practices. Also, research in the field seeks to uncover commonalities between the musical traditions of

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disparate cultures and possible cognitive "constraints" Slave Music During Civil War that limit these Slave Music During Civil War musical systems. Questions regarding musical innateness, and emotional responses to music are also major Slave Music During Civil War areas of research in Slave Music During Civil War the field. Deaf Slave Music During Civil War people can experience music by feeling the vibrations in their body, a process which can be enhanced if the individual holds a resonant, hollow object. A well-known deaf musician is the composer Ludwig van Beethoven, who composed Slave Music During Civil War many famous works even after he had completely lost his hearing. Recent examples of deaf musicians include Evelyn Slave Music During Civil War Glennie, a highly acclaimed percussionist who has been Slave Music During Civil War deaf since age twelve, and Chris Buck, a virtuoso violinist who has lost his hearing. This is relevant because it indicates that music is a deeper cognitive process than unexamined phrases such as, "pleasing to the ear" United Airlines Xm Music would suggest. Slave Music During Civil War Much research in music cognition seeks to uncover these complex mental processes involved in listening to music, which may Slave Music During Civil War seem intuitively simple, yet are vastly intricate and complex.The music that composers make can be heard Slave Music During Civil War through several Slave Music During Civil War media; the most traditional way is Slave Music During Civil War to hear it live, in the presence, Slave Music During Civil War or as one of the musicians. Live music can also be broadcast over the radio, television or the internet. Slave Music During Civil War Some musical styles focus on producing a Slave Music During Civil War sound for a performance, while others focus on producing a recording which mixes together sounds which were never played "live". Recording, Slave Music During Civil War even of styles which Slave Music During Civil War are essentially live, often uses the ability to edit and splice to produce recordings which are considered Slave Music During Civil War better than the actual performance. As

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talking pictures emerged in the early 20th century, with their prerecorded musical tracks, an increasing number of moviehouse Slave Music During Civil War orchestra musicians found themselves out of work.[6] During the 1920s live musical performances by orchestras, pianists, Slave Music During Civil War and theater organists were common at first-run theaters[7] With the coming of the talking motion pictures, those featured performances were largely eliminated. The AFM took out newspaper advertisements protesting Slave Music During Civil War the Slave Music During Civil War replacement of live musicians with Slave Music During Civil War mechanical playing devices. One 1929 ad that appeared in the Pittsburgh Press features an image Slave Music During Civil War of a can labeled "Canned Music / Big Noise Brand / Guaranteed to Produce No Intellectual or Emotional Reaction Whatever" Since legislation introduced to Slave Music During Civil War help protect performers, composers, publishers and producers, including the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 in the United States, and Slave Music During Civil War the 1979 revised Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works in the United Kingdom, recordings and live performances have Slave Music During Civil War also become more accessible Slave Music During Civil War through computers, devices and internet in a form that Slave Music During Civil War is commonly known as music-on-demand. In Slave Music During Civil War many Slave Music During Civil War cultures, there Slave Music During Civil War is less Slave Music During Civil War distinction between performing and listening Slave Music During Civil War to music, since

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virtually everyone is involved in some sort of musical activity, often communal. In industrialised countries, Slave Music During Civil War listening to music Slave Music During Civil War through a recorded Slave Music During Civil War form, 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 performances incorporate prerecorded sounds. For example, a DJ uses disc records for scratching, and some 20th-century works have a solo for an instrument or voice that is performed Nightingale In Berkeley Square Music along with music that is prerecorded onto Slave Music During Civil War a Billy Hyde Music tape. Computers and many keyboards can be programmed Slave Music During Civil War to produce and play MIDI music. Audiences Slave Music During Civil War can also become performers by participating in Karaoke, an activity of Japanese origin which centres around a device that plays voice-eliminated versions of well-known songs. Most karaoke machines also have video screens that show lyrics to songs Slave Music During Civil War being performed; performers can follow Slave Music During Civil War the lyrics as they sing over the instrumental tracks. The advent of The Mann Music Center the Slave Music During Civil War Internet has transformed the experience of music, Slave Music During Civil War partly through the increased ease of access to Slave Music During Civil War music and the Slave Music During Civil War increased choice. Chris Anderson, Slave Music During Civil War in his book The Long Tail: Why the future of business is selling Slave Music During Civil War less of more, suggests that while the economic model Slave Music During Civil War of Slave Music During Civil War supply and demand describes scarcity, the Internet retail model is based on abundance. Digital storage costs are low, so a company Slave Music During Civil War can afford to make its whole inventory available online, giving customers as much choice as possible. It has thus Slave Music During Civil War become economically viable to offer products 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 of thousands of niche markets. Another effect of Slave Music During Civil War the Internet arises with online communities like Youtube and Myspace. Myspace has Slave Music During Civil War made social networking with other musicians Slave Music During Civil War easier, and greatly facilitates the Slave Music During Civil War distribution of Slave Music During Civil War one's music. Youtube also has a large community Slave Music During Civil War of both amateur and professional musicians who post videos and comments. Professional musicians also use Youtube as a free publisher of promotional material. Youtube users, for example, no longer only download and listen to mp3s, but Slave Music During Civil War also actively create their own. According to Tapscott and Williams, there has been a shift Slave Music During Civil War from Slave Music During Civil War a traditional consumer role to what they call a "prosumer" role, a consumer who both creates Slave Music During Civil War and consumes. Manifestations of this in music include the production of mashes, remixes, and music Slave Music During Civil War videos by fans.