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musical material, or composition, Restaurant Music as held in western classical Restaurant Music music. Even when music is notated precisely, there are still many decisions that a Restaurant Music performer Restaurant Music has Restaurant Music to make. Restaurant Music The process of

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a performer Restaurant Music deciding how to perform music that has been previously composed and Restaurant Music notated is termed interpretation. Different performers' interpretations of the same music can vary widely. Composers and song writers who present Restaurant Music their own music are Restaurant Music interpreting, just as much as those who Restaurant Music perform the music of others or folk music. The standard body of choices and techniques present at a given Restaurant Music time and a given place is referred to as performance Restaurant Music 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 Restaurant Music has a "standard" interpretation. In some musical genres, Restaurant Music such as jazz and blues, even more freedom is given to the

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performer to engage in improvisation on a basic melodic, harmonic, or rhythmic framework. The greatest latitude Restaurant Music is given to the performer in a style Restaurant Music of performing called free improvisation, which is material that is spontaneously "thought of" (imagined) while being performed, not preconceived. According 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 always mean the use of notation, Restaurant Music or the known sole authorship of one individual. Music can also be determined Restaurant Music by Restaurant Music describing a "process" which may create musical sounds; examples Restaurant Music of this range from wind chimes, through computer Restaurant Music programs which select sounds. Music which contains elements selected by chance is called Aleatoric music, and is associated with such composers as

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John Cage, Morton Feldman, and Witold Lutoslawski. Musical composition is a term that describes the composition of a piece of music. Methods of Restaurant Music composition vary widely from one composer to another, 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 on the spot. Restaurant Music The music 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 Western Restaurant Music classical music, but the definition of composition Restaurant Music is broad enough to include Restaurant Music spontaneously improvised works like those of free Restaurant Music jazz performers and African drummers. What is important Restaurant Music in understanding the composition of a piece is singling out its elements. An understanding of music's formal elements can Man On Fire Music be helpful in Restaurant Music deciphering exactly how Restaurant Music 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 of music. When a piece appears to have a changing Restaurant Music time-feel, it is considered to be in rubato time, an Italian Restaurant Music expression that indicates that Music Theme From Law Order the tempo of the piece Restaurant Music changes to suit the expressive intent of the performer. Even random placement of random sounds, which occurs in musical montage, occurs Restaurant Music within Restaurant Music some Restaurant Music kind of time, and thus Restaurant Music employs time as a musical element. Notation is the written expression of music notes and rhythms on paper using Restaurant Music symbols. When music is written down, the pitches and rhythm of the music is notated, along with instructions on how to perform the Restaurant Music music. The study of how to read notation involves music theory, harmony, the study Restaurant Music of Restaurant Music performance practice, and in some cases an understanding of historical performance methods. Written notation varies with style and period of Restaurant Music music. In Western Art music, Restaurant Music the most common types of written notation are scores, which include Restaurant Music all the music parts of an ensemble piece, and parts, which are the music Restaurant Music notation

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for the individual performers or singers. In popular music, jazz, and blues, the standard musical notation is the lead sheet, which Restaurant Music notates Restaurant Music the melody, chords, lyrics (if it Restaurant Music is a vocal piece), and structure Restaurant Music of the music. Scores and parts are also used in Restaurant Music popular music and jazz, particularly in large Restaurant Music ensembles such as jazz "big bands." In Restaurant Music popular music, guitarists and electric bass players often read music Restaurant Music notated in tablature, which indicates the

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location of the notes to be played Restaurant Music on the instrument using a diagram of the guitar or bass fingerboard. Tabulature was also used in the Baroque era to notate music for the lute, a stringed, fretted instrument. Notated Restaurant Music 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 Restaurant Music considered an act of instantaneous composition by Restaurant Music 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 Restaurant Music distills and analyzes the elements of music � rhythm, harmony (harmonic function), melody, Restaurant Music structure, and texture. People who study these properties are known as music theorists. The field of music cognition involves the study Restaurant Music of many aspects of music including how it is processed Restaurant Music by

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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 mental processes that underlie these practices. Also, research in the field seeks to uncover

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commonalities between

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the musical traditions of disparate cultures and possible cognitive Restaurant Music "constraints"

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that limit these musical systems. Questions regarding musical innateness, and emotional responses to music are also major areas of research in Restaurant Music the field. Deaf people can experience Restaurant Music music by feeling Restaurant Music the vibrations in their body, a process which can be enhanced if the individual holds a Restaurant Music resonant, hollow object. A well-known deaf musician is the composer Ludwig van Beethoven, who composed many famous works even after he Restaurant Music had completely lost his hearing. Recent 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 Popular Music In S that music is a deeper cognitive Restaurant Music process than unexamined phrases such as, "pleasing to the ear" would suggest. Much research in music cognition seeks to uncover these complex mental processes Restaurant Music involved in listening to music, which Restaurant Music may seem intuitively simple, yet Restaurant Music are vastly Restaurant Music intricate and complex.The music that composers make can be Restaurant Music heard through several media;

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the most traditional way is to hear it live, in the presence, or Restaurant Music as one of Restaurant Music the Restaurant Music musicians. Restaurant Music Live music can Restaurant Music also be broadcast over the radio, Restaurant Music television or the internet. Some musical styles focus on producing a sound for a performance, Restaurant Music while others focus on producing a recording which mixes together sounds which were never Restaurant Music played Restaurant Music "live". Recording, even of styles which are essentially Restaurant Music live, often uses the ability to edit and Restaurant Music splice to produce recordings which are considered better than the actual performance. As talking Restaurant Music 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 largely eliminated. The How Music Affects Fetal Development AFM took Restaurant Music out newspaper advertisements protesting Restaurant Music the replacement of live musicians with Restaurant Music mechanical playing devices. One Restaurant Music 1929 ad that appeared in the Pittsburgh Press features an image of a can labeled "Canned Music / Big Noise Brand / Guaranteed to Produce No Intellectual or Emotional Reaction Whatever" Since legislation introduced to help protect Restaurant Music performers, composers, publishers and Restaurant Music producers, Restaurant Music 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 in the United Kingdom, recordings and live performances have also become more accessible through computers, devices and internet in a form that is Restaurant Music commonly known as music-on-demand. In many cultures, there is less distinction between performing and listening to music, since Restaurant Music virtually everyone is involved in Restaurant Music some sort of musical activity, often communal. In industrialised countries, listening to music through Restaurant Music a recorded form, such as sound recording or watching a Restaurant Music 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 Restaurant Music works have a solo for an instrument or Restaurant Music voice that is Restaurant Music performed along Restaurant Music with music Restaurant Music that is prerecorded onto a tape. Computers and Restaurant Music many keyboards can be programmed to produce and play MIDI music. Audiences can also become performers by participating in Karaoke, an activity of Japanese origin which centres around a device that plays Restaurant Music voice-eliminated versions of well-known songs. Most karaoke machines also have video screens that show lyrics to songs being performed; performers can Restaurant Music follow the lyrics as they sing Restaurant Music over the instrumental tracks. The advent of Restaurant Music the Internet has transformed the Restaurant Music experience of music, partly through the increased Restaurant Music ease of access to music Restaurant Music and the increased choice. Chris Anderson, in his book The Restaurant Music Long Tail: Why the future of business is selling less of more, suggests that while the economic model of supply and Restaurant Music demand describes scarcity, the Internet retail model is based on abundance. Digital storage costs are low, so a company can afford to make its whole inventory available online, Rainbow Goblins Music Video giving customers as much choice as possible. It has thus become economically viable to Restaurant Music offer products that very few people are interested in. Consumers' growing awareness Restaurant Music of their increased choice results in a closer association between listening tastes and social Restaurant Music identity, and the creation of thousands Restaurant Music of niche markets. Another effect Restaurant Music of the Internet arises with online communities like Restaurant Music Youtube and Myspace. Myspace has made social networking with other musicians easier, and greatly facilitates Restaurant Music the distribution of one's music. Youtube also Finnish Rock Music has a Restaurant Music large community of both amateur Restaurant Music and professional musicians who post videos and comments. Professional musicians also use Restaurant Music Youtube as a free publisher of promotional material. Youtube users, for example, no longer only download and listen to mp3s, but also actively create their own. According to Tapscott and Williams, there has been a Restaurant Music shift from a traditional consumer role to what they call a "prosumer" role, Restaurant Music a consumer who both creates and consumes. Restaurant Music Manifestations of this in Bossy Music Video music include

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the Restaurant Music production of mashes, Restaurant Music remixes, and music videos by fans.