... now used today (Jones). The Fraunhofer Institut fur Integrierte Schaltungen (geshundteit!), or the Fraunhofer IIS-A, patented their new audio compression technology in 1989, and it was merged into the Moving Picture Experts Group (or MPEG) in 1992, making their new technical term MPEG-1, Audio Layer 3, but popularly known as MP3 (Jones). MP3s allowed for near CD quality sound but with a much ... phonograph. When installed and ran, a black screen would appear, with legal jargon on it for all to read, about the nature of MP3s and copyright and so forth. There were gray tabs at the top for...

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... student where they would be required to know how to sight read and sing or play the scale in different keys. Individual assessments would be graded on the notes you sing or play correctly. In secondary school, the work is harder than would be in primary school. Students would be required to sight read in ... any key with a given do from the piano or other instrument if needed. They should have to sing or play a series of notes of varying beats to create a tune. Students would also be required to be able to perform the scale in any key within their vocal range if they ... hand signs that...

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... the term live electronic: the avant-garde composer John Cage (1912-1992). He supposedly first mentioned the term "live electronic" on the sleeve-notes for his "Cartridge Music" recordings; pieces he wrote for his choreographer Friend Merce Cunningham from the Cunningham Dance Company : "[ .] to make ... a recording studio or a performance instrument. It is the nature of the paper that this chapter will only focus on the laptop as a performance tool. picture 4: Apple iBook "In this context a laptop is a musical instrument with an infinite palette of sounds ". Depending on its processing ...

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... rags are written in 24. One of Joplin's most enduring waltzes was his Bethena waltz. When listened to, one hears the syncopation of unaccented eighth notes alternating with accented quarter notes in the treble over accented three-quarter notes of the bass; this gives a cakewalk feeling to the piece. Ragtime's systematic syncopation was its most important contribution to jazz. The syncopation is achieved ... under his direction. The quartette finished its successful tour in Joplin, Missouri, making him a published composer. With the quartette, Joplin wrote and performed the songs Please ...

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... action packed as the previous version but is not any less amusing as we see the whole fight moving into the courtyard, where everyone in the picture has their swords drawn and are 'clowning around'. This adds the fuel needed for the action in this scene as the build up to the fight ... in the Luhrman version. One impressive point that Luhrman has integrated into the modern version, without altering the script is this; In the original/Zefferelli script/picture, Benvolio says "Put up your swords", then the characters do so in the Zefferelli version, but in the Luhrman version and the mode...

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... a composed body of music gives off a certain type of feeling; it can excite or relax our mind. We can presume that the softer the melody and notes the more calmness the song has. When one composes a song it "expresses primarily the composer's knowledge of human feeling". Music is a language of ... , it only can affect our minds and our emotions through our sense of hearing. Its impact is still easily felt, but how can a collection of notes so heavily impact how we are feeling and what benefits to us can come from listening to songs? It's proven through studies that: Several characteristi...

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... below. In the center of the painting, is the Castle to which the knight is traveling to for battle. Behind the knight's destination is a dark and shadowy mountain with a gloomy gray cloud encircling it giving the perception of danger and doom. In the foreground are the peaceful peasants going about their daily spring chores unaware of the misfortune that is soon ... before us by artists. Life would be bleak if there was not art and the artist that construct their inspiration and imagination in to works for us. In fact, I cannot picture a world with out art. We need keep an open mind to ...

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... below. In the center of the painting, is the Castle to which the knight is traveling to for battle. Behind the knight's destination is a dark and shadowy mountain with a gloomy gray cloud encircling it giving the perception of danger and doom. In the foreground are the peaceful peasants going about their daily spring chores unaware of the misfortune that is soon ... before us by artists. Life would be bleak if there was not art and the artist that construct their inspiration and imagination in to works for us. In fact, I cannot picture a world with out art. We need keep an open mind to ...

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... called "Sonata"." But Shostakovich's sonata has a hesitant and uncertain feel. No matter how the music begins, it comes to a dead end. Nearly always in the implacable repetition of three fateful notes. In the course of this movement, in fact in the entire symphony, the music arrives again and again at the same dead end. The design is clear from the very ... wrong. The music abruptly breaks off and then continues in a scale, a little wiggle that shrugs its way downward. And then breaks off again, with the appearance of those three fateful notes, the first dead end. So the pattern in the ...

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... were a site of refuge for many censored South African musicians. One of the most recognizable anti-apartheid musical groups, The Blue Notes, came to London in the 1960s to escape the oppressive nature of life during apartheid. Being a mixed-race band during apartheid in South Africa, the ... Blue Notes' existence was full of threats and disgrace. Drummer, Louis Moholo sometimes had to make himself invisible, playing behind a screen if he was ... daily division between races during apartheid. Yet when they all left, the sense of ostracism and separation was strong in their hearts. The B...

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... is music or sports, the excitement that we feel can be addictive and we can be pulled into an obsession to get our fix of excitement over and over again. Notes: The names have been changed to protect the innocent. Music: Impressions of Addiction It doesn't take a stretch of imagination to realize music's impact on our lives. There's ... is music or sports, the excitement that we feel can be addictive and we can be pulled into an obsession to get our fix of excitement over and over again. Notes: The names have been changed to protect the innocent. Music: Impressions of Addiction It doesn't...

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... Du Fay (1397-1474). Binchois was noteworthy for his chansons and rondeau as well as using "hemiola" which is a term when there is a cross note of three quarter notes over a compound meter. Like Dunstable, Binchois also experimented with rhythm and used dotted figures and syncopation. Du Fay was the most important composer of his time as he was widely ... exemplified having a sense of humor while having an innate ability for music expression, and a genius for compositions for the stage such as opera. Purcell used suspended notes in his pieces and emphasized the suspended notes on the str...

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... dampen her spirits. Often the lovers would secretly meet, but they would quickly separate as if they were committing a horrible crime. This affair went on for four years with many notes written to the other. "Someday my turn will come,"" wrote Schumann, "then you will see how much I love you!- Clara would reply, "I say to you again that my love knows ... the pitches A, E-flat, C, and B, or alternatively A-flat, C, and B) after a town to which Ernestine had departed. Another example is the Abegg Variations after another past girlfriend Abegg, which includes the musical notes A-B-E-G-G. H...

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... dampen her spirits. Often the lovers would secretly meet, but they would quickly separate as if they were committing a horrible crime. This affair went on for four years with many notes written to the other. "Someday my turn will come,"" wrote Schumann, "then you will see how much I love you!- Clara would reply, "I say to you again that my love knows ... the pitches A, E-flat, C, and B, or alternatively A-flat, C, and B) after a town to which Ernestine had departed. Another example is the Abegg Variations after another past girlfriend Abegg, which includes the musical notes A-B-E-G-G. H...

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... nonverbal in that it communicates through organized sound and is difficult to translate, the other elements are what make the sound organized and meaningful. Melody is an organized set of notes consisting of different pitches. It is basically the up and down motion of the lead singer. Rhythm is those beat of patterns that underlie most forms of communications. It is ... made up of pulsations that follow a consistent pattern. It will sometimes show us the emotional feel of a song. Harmony is the simultaneous sounding of two or more notes at the same time. It provides a texture for the to...

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... Death Embrace." The song has four parts to it. The drum part is pretty much the same through the whole song. The keyboardist, guitarist, and bass player repeat the same notes through the chorus where he sings, "When love and death embrace." In the verse, where the song is at a calm setting, they change it, and at the end there are ... polyphony sounds from the guitarist who repeats the same notes that the keyboardist was playing for the chorus, except he wasn't using chords like he was doing in the chorus, and the keyboardist is playing a different melody that he keeps ... ...

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... , and renamed pop/soul" (Hughes 29). Radio stations today are still somewhat segregated; some playing to a black audience, others to white audiences. Many artists are now being encouraged to create a gray music that isn't black, or white, and essentially that is what many of these pop acts are doing. This is more of a business move than anything else because it guarantees ... ...

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... the use of television that Americans came to understand the importance and significance of the Civil Rights Movement. With the help of actual picture, TV media brought forth strong feelings of opposition toward segregation. The success and the disintegration of the Civil Rights Movement was accelerated by ... the power of television, because for many, seeing is believing. The use of picture also had a large impact on the declining support for the Vietnam War. President Johnson was claiming that American soldiers were heroes and that ... the use of television that Americans came to unde...

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... film is extremely effective and important even if we do not always notice that it is there. From the beginning of the film until more than twenty minutes into the picture the music does not stop. To construct an effective film score there are no real rules but rather a patterned set of guidelines that have become tradition over time. Certain types ... create the style, mood or feeling of the film. For example, the type of music that would be used in a Western, a Suspense-Drama, or a Love Story varies little from picture to picture. A theme found in a Love Story will not always be the sa...

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... songs for the piano, Für Elise being one of them.Not much is known about the background of the song due to the only thing left behind was the transcribed notes, with no obvious background information other than that the song title heavily implied that it was written for Elise, whose identity has not been confirmed, but has been guessed to ... ...

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... on surface level are very different, actually have quite a few, strong similarities. They are both branches off of traditional African melodies. "The haunting rhythms, the bending and turning of the notes, and the phrasing were all the same " (Davis WIJ, 77). What was different was how the music was received. Since the lyrics were altered, the meaning and feeling behind the ... ...

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... , the soprano voice engages in increasing downward leaps from the stationary top F. This may as well been taken straight from an Italian violin concerto. We see a similar motive using eight notes yet again in the bass of the second menuett (m. 25). Conversely, Handel's suite is very much influenced by vocal music. His prelude movement is very much the representative of the ... ...

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... the composer withholds those rights, the composer must issue the license. ASAP, BMI, and SESAC handle the payment of these royalties. Motion picture for theatrical exhibition requires a synchronization license that includes a right to exhibit. The producer of the motion picture issues this license and the royalties are handled by ASCAP, BMI and SESAC. Broadcast commercial requires a negotiated license issued from the publisher ... ...

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... words to other people's experiences to look like a rebellious teen himself. When he died, obsessed teenage fans all over the world were in mourning, and three people committed suicide, leaving notes that they could not live without Kurt Cobain. Events like the death of Kurt Cobain and it's effect on his fans bring upon the "Appearance vs. Reality factor" (Society for ... ...

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... weather conditions, Hendrix could not quite win the crowd over. That was until he stepped away from his microphone, looking like a cowboy gypsie and cosmic hitchhiker, sounded out the first notes of the song everyone knew so well: "The Star Spangled Banner." Hendrix's guitar seemed to mock and revere the national anthem's grandiosity. The effects of one of the most electrifying ... ...

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