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musical material, or composition, as held Music Down Lodes in western classical music. Even when music is notated precisely, there are still many decisions that Music Down Lodes a Music Down Lodes performer has to Music Down Lodes make. The Music Down Lodes process of a performer deciding how to perform music that has been previously composed and notated is termed interpretation. Different performers' interpretations of Music Down Lodes the same music Music Down Lodes can vary widely. Composers and song Music Down Lodes writers who present their own music are interpreting, just as much as those who Music Down Lodes perform Music Down Lodes the music of others or folk Music Down Lodes music. The standard body of choices and techniques present at a given time and a given place is referred to as performance practice, where as

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interpretation is generally used to mean either individual Music Down Lodes 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 blues, even more freedom is given to the performer to Music Down Lodes engage in improvisation on a basic melodic, harmonic, or rhythmic framework. The greatest latitude is given to the performer in a style of performing called Music Down Lodes free improvisation, which is material that is spontaneously "thought Music Down Lodes of" (imagined) while being performed, not preconceived. Music Down Lodes According to Music Down Lodes the analysis of Georgiana Costescu,[citation Music Down Lodes needed] Music Down Lodes improvised music usually follows stylistic or genre conventions and even Music Down Lodes "fully composed" includes some freely chosen material. Music Down Lodes Composition does not always mean the use Music Down Lodes of Music Down Lodes notation, or the known sole authorship of one individual. Music can also be determined Music Down Lodes by describing a "process" which may create musical sounds; examples of this range from wind chimes, through computer programs which select sounds. Music which Music Down Lodes contains elements selected by Music Down Lodes chance Music Down Lodes is called Aleatoric music, and is associated with such composers as John Cage, Morton Feldman, and Witold Lutoslawski. Musical composition is a term that describes the composition Music Down Lodes of a piece of music. Methods of composition vary Music Down Lodes widely

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

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in deciphering exactly Music Down Lodes how a piece is constructed. A universal element of music is how sounds occur in time, which is referred to Music Down Lodes as the rhythm of a piece of Music Down Lodes music. When a piece appears to have Music Down Lodes a changing time-feel, it is considered to be in rubato time, an Italian expression that indicates that

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the tempo of Music Down Lodes the piece changes to suit the expressive intent of the performer. Even random placement of random sounds, which occurs in musical montage, occurs within some kind of Music Down Lodes time, and thus employs time as a musical Music Down Lodes element. Notation is the written Music Down Lodes expression Music Down Lodes of music notes and rhythms on paper using symbols. When music is written down, the pitches and rhythm of the music is notated, along with instructions on Music Down Lodes how to perform the music. The study of how to read notation involves Music Down Lodes music theory, harmony, the study of performance Music Down Lodes practice, and in some cases an understanding of historical Music Down Lodes performance

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methods. Written notation varies with style Music Down Lodes and period of music. In

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Western Art music, the most common types of written 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 musical notation is the lead sheet, which Music Down Lodes notates the melody, chords, lyrics Music Down Lodes (if it Music Down Lodes is a vocal piece), Music Down Lodes and structure of the music. Scores and parts are also used in popular music and jazz, particularly in large ensembles such as jazz "big bands." In popular music, guitarists and electric bass players often read music notated in tablature, which indicates the location of the notes to be played on the instrument using a Music Down Lodes diagram of Music Down Lodes the guitar or bass fingerboard. Tabulature was also used in 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 musical style and the performance practice that is associated with a Music Down Lodes piece Music Down Lodes of music or genre. Improvisation is the creation of Music Down Lodes spontaneous music. Improvisation is often Music Down Lodes considered an 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 involves identifying patterns that govern composers' techniques. In a more detailed sense, music theory (in the western system) also distills and Music Down Lodes analyzes Music Down Lodes the elements Music Down Lodes of music � rhythm, harmony (harmonic function), melody, structure, and texture. People who study these properties Music Down Lodes are known Music Down Lodes as music theorists. The Music Down Lodes field of music cognition involves Music Down Lodes the study of Music Down Lodes many aspects of music Holiday Christmas Music Listen Online including how it is processed Music Down Lodes 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 uncover the Music Down Lodes mental processes Music Down Lodes that underlie these practices.

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Also, research in the field seeks to uncover commonalities between the musical traditions of Music Down Lodes disparate Music Down Lodes cultures and possible 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 Music Down Lodes be enhanced if the individual holds a resonant, hollow object. A well-known deaf musician is the composer Ludwig van Music Down Lodes Beethoven, who composed many famous works even after he Music Down Lodes had completely lost his hearing. Recent Music Down Lodes examples of deaf musicians include Evelyn Glennie, a highly acclaimed percussionist who has been deaf since age twelve, and Chris Buck, a virtuoso violinist who has lost his hearing. This is relevant because it indicates that music is Music Down Lodes 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 mental processes involved in listening to Music Down Lodes music, which may seem intuitively simple, yet are vastly intricate and complex.The music that composers make can be heard through several media; the most traditional

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way is to Music Down Lodes hear Music Down Lodes it live, in the presence, or as one of the musicians. Live music can also be broadcast

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over the radio, television or the internet. Some musical styles focus Music Down Lodes on producing a sound for a performance, while others focus on producing a recording which mixes together Music Down Lodes sounds which were

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never played "live". Recording, even of styles which are essentially live, often uses the ability to edit and splice to produce recordings Music Down Lodes which are considered better than Music Down Lodes 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 Music Down Lodes 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 largely eliminated. The AFM took out newspaper advertisements protesting the replacement of live musicians with mechanical playing devices. One 1929 ad that appeared in the Pittsburgh Press features an image of a can labeled "Canned Music / Big Noise Brand / Music Down Lodes Guaranteed to Produce No Intellectual or Emotional Reaction Whatever" Since legislation introduced Music Down Lodes to

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help protect performers, composers, publishers Music Down Lodes and producers, including the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 in the United States, and the Music Down Lodes 1979 revised Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works in the United Kingdom, recordings Music Down Lodes and live performances have also become more accessible through computers, devices and internet in a form that is commonly known as music-on-demand. In many cultures, there Music Down Lodes is less distinction between performing and listening Music Down Lodes to music, since virtually everyone is involved in some sort of musical activity, often communal. In industrialised countries, listening to music Music Down Lodes through a recorded Music Down Lodes form, such as sound recording or watching a music video, became more common than experiencing live performance, roughly in the middle of the 20th Music Down Lodes century. Sometimes, live performances incorporate prerecorded sounds. For example,

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a DJ uses disc records for scratching, and some 20th-century works Music Down Lodes have a 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 Music Down Lodes produce and play Music Down Lodes MIDI music. Music Down Lodes Audiences can also become performers by participating in Karaoke, Music Down Lodes an activity of Japanese origin which Music Down Lodes 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 being performed; performers can follow the lyrics as they

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sing over the instrumental tracks. The advent of Music Down Lodes the Internet has transformed the experience of music, partly through the

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increased ease of access to music and the increased choice. Chris Music Down Lodes Anderson, in his book The Long Tail: Why Music Down Lodes the future of business is selling less of more, suggests that while the Music Down Lodes economic model of supply and demand describes scarcity, the Internet retail model is based on abundance. Digital storage costs are Music Down Lodes low, so

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a company can afford to make its whole inventory available online, giving customers Music Down Lodes as much choice as possible. It has thus Music Down Lodes become economically viable to offer products that very few people are interested in. Consumers' growing awareness of Music Down Lodes their increased choice results in a closer association between listening tastes and social identity, and the creation of thousands of niche markets. Another effect

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of the Internet arises with online communities like Youtube and Myspace.

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Myspace has made social networking with other musicians easier, and greatly facilitates the distribution of Music Down Lodes one's music. Youtube also has a large community of both amateur and professional musicians Music Down Lodes who post videos and comments. Professional musicians also use Music Down Lodes Youtube as a Music Down Lodes free publisher of promotional material. Youtube users, for example, no longer only download Music Down Lodes and listen Music Down Lodes to mp3s, but also actively create their own. According to Tapscott and Williams, there has been a shift from a traditional consumer role Music Down Lodes to what they Downloadable Christian Music Video S call a "prosumer" role, Music Down Lodes a consumer Music Down Lodes who both creates and consumes. Manifestations of this in music include the production

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of mashes, remixes, and music videos by fans.
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