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Musical composition Indian Music Free is a term that describes the composition of a piece of music. Methods of composition vary Indian Music Free widely from Indian Music Free one composer Indian Music Free to another, however in analysing music all forms � spontaneous, trained, or untrained Indian Music Free � are built from elements comprising Indian Music Free a musical piece. Music can be composed for repeated performance or it can be improvised: composed on the spot. The music can be performed entirely from Indian Music Free memory, from a written system of musical notation, or some combination Indian Music Free of 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 Indian Music Free of free jazz performers and Indian Music Free African drummers.
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Notation is the written Indian Music Free expression of music notes and rhythms on paper using symbols. When music is written down, the Indian Music Free pitches and rhythm of the music is notated, along with instructions on how to perform the music. The study of how to read notation involves music theory, harmony, the study of performance practice, and in some cases an understanding of historical performance methods.
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In popular music, guitarists and electric bass players often read music notated in tablature, which indicates the location of Indian Music Free the notes to be played on the instrument using a Indian Music Free diagram of the guitar Indian Music Free or bass fingerboard. Tabulature was also used in the Baroque era Indian Music Free to notate music for the lute, a Indian Music Free stringed, fretted instrument.
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As talking pictures emerged in the early 20th century, with their prerecorded musical tracks, Indian Music Free an increasing Indian Music Free number of moviehouse orchestra musicians found themselves out of work.[6] During the 1920s Indian Music Free live musical Indian Music Free performances by orchestras, pianists, and Indian Music Free theater organists were common at first-run theaters[7] With the coming of Indian Music Free the talking motion pictures, those featured performances were largely eliminated. The AFM took out Indian Music Free 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 Indian Music Free can labeled "Canned Music / Big Noise Brand / Guaranteed to Produce No Intellectual or Emotional Reaction Whatever"
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Since legislation introduced to help Music Organizing Software protect performers, composers, Indian Music Free publishers and producers, including the Audio Indian Music Free Home Recording Act of 1992 Indian Music Free in the United States, and the 1979 revised Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Indian Music Free Works in the Indian Music Free United Kingdom, recordings and Indian Music Free live performances Indian Music Free have Indian Music Free also become more accessible through computers, devices and internet in a form that is commonly Indian Music Free known as music-on-demand.
In many Indian Music Free 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 Indian Music Free countries, listening to music through a Indian Music Free recorded 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.
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The advent of the Internet Indian Music Free has transformed the experience of music, partly through the Indian Music Free increased ease of access to music and Indian Music Free the increased choice. Chris Indian Music Free Anderson, in his book 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, Indian Music Free so Indian Music Free a company can afford to make its whole inventory available online, giving customers as much choice as possible. It has thus become economically viable to offer products that very few people are interested in. Consumers' growing Indian Music Free awareness of their increased choice results Indian Music Free in a closer association between listening tastes and social identity, and the creation of thousands of niche markets.
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