musical material, Legends Music Cafe 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 Legends Music Cafe deciding how to perform music that has been previously Legends Music Cafe composed and Legends Music Cafe notated is termed interpretation.
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Musical composition is a term that describes the composition of a piece of music. Methods Legends Music Cafe of composition vary widely from one composer Legends Music Cafe to another, however in analysing music all forms � spontaneous, trained, or untrained � are built from elements comprising a Legends Music Cafe musical piece. Music Legends Music Cafe can be composed for repeated performance or it can be improvised: composed Legends Music Cafe on the spot. The music can be performed entirely from memory, from a Legends Music Cafe written system of Legends Music Cafe musical notation, or Legends Music Cafe some combination Legends Music Cafe of both. Study of composition has traditionally Legends Music Cafe been dominated by examination of Music Medic methods and practice of Western classical Legends Music Cafe music, Legends Music Cafe but the definition of composition is broad enough to include spontaneously improvised works like those of free jazz performers and African drummers.
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When a piece appears to have a changing time-feel, it is considered to be in rubato time, an Italian expression Legends Music Cafe 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 musical montage, occurs within some kind of time, and thus employs time as a musical element.
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In many 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 countries, listening to music through a recorded form, such as sound recording or watching a music video, became more common than experiencing live performance, roughly in Legends Music Cafe the middle of the 20th century.
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Youtube Legends Music Cafe users, for Legends Music Cafe example, no longer only download and listen to mp3s, but also actively create Legends Music Cafe their own. According to Tapscott and Williams, there has been a shift from a traditional consumer role to what they call a "prosumer" role, a consumer who both creates and consumes. Manifestations of this in music include the production Legends Music Cafe of mashes, remixes, and music videos by Downloads Music Free fans. |
