... . In order to do that people like Pierre Schaeffer or Dennis Smalley, who are both composers and musicians, started to invent or apply scientific new terms for listening, performing and composing music. They and other people came up with a different view at what music is. A small representation ... music of today's cutting edge electronic musicians e.g. like in the work of German artist Stefan Betke, also better known as Pole: "To cut a new groove from his favourite sounds he would combine two turntables, two CD-players and a laptop, then juxtapose jazz and dub with a little Steve Reich ...

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... 1987-1988 programming schedule, NBC held a commanding lead in ratings over ABC and CBS. The method of measuring the ratings itself became news in September, when viewership was calculated using a new measuring device called people meters. These devices, which require participating viewers to punch a series of buttons on a remote-control device each time they watch television, were thought to give advertisers ... more accurate information about the ages and types of viewers watching television than the previous measuring procedure. In the old method, a device called a black box recorded ...

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... about music. That is why he feared and hated it." - Dmitri Shostakovich On November 7, 1917, the Russian Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace and created a new form of government they called the Communist Party. In the first years of the revolution, anything and everything seemed possible; not just in politics, but in ... the music for the movie "Counterplan"." the film is about a couple who fall in love while working in a turbine factory. The movie was a box office smash and the theme became one of the nation's biggest hits and Stalin's favorite song. Perhaps it was Stalin's sentimental ...

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... at the bank, which will allow the Helmer family to be able to afford some of the finer things in life. Torvald sees the boxes and reminds Nora that his new job does not start for a while and that she should be thriftier with her spending. From the beginning, Torvald comes across as a man that demands obedience and commands authority. Torvald ... that had happened in the past. Receiving news that he has lost his job, Krogstad comes back to the house and speaks with Nora and leaves a letter in the post box, to which Torvald has the only key. Nora panics. Unsure what to do, she tells Mrs. ...

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... at the bank, which will allow the Helmer family to be able to afford some of the finer things in life. Torvald sees the boxes and reminds Nora that his new job does not start for a while and that she should be thriftier with her spending. From the beginning, Torvald comes across as a man that demands obedience and commands authority. Torvald ... that had happened in the past. Receiving news that he has lost his job, Krogstad comes back to the house and speaks with Nora and leaves a letter in the post box, to which Torvald has the only key. Nora panics. Unsure what to do, she tells Mrs. ...

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... same musician. They can be taken anywhere, and played on computers, cars, and radios. Though through the growing information technology industry, music has found a new port to be played and downloaded from. This has been mainly through the creation of ITunes on April 28, 2003. This was created by Apple with ... standards and conventions to be met. This includes producing both the track and music video so that it meets the technical requirements. For example in New Zealand the television standard is PAL (Phase Alternating Line). Phase Alternating Line, is a color encoding system for analo...

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... quadruple-platinum with sales 4.4 million units in the US and 3.3 million units internationally. In 1984, she broke the box office record at the Radio City Music Hall in New York, with the fastest sellout of any concert ever - 17,622 tickets sold out in 34 minutes. The entire ... two hours. Madonna has successfully merged her pop sensibilities with experimental electronica. She earned a respect as an artist when she produced a brand new sound - hybrid dance-pop. However, some detractor still insists that her musical collaborators direct Madonna's creative output. "Not so", defends Willia...

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... musicians who came from Memphis and were labeled the Memphis Mafia. They produced a more marketable combination of records using ballads and novelties. Country was also influenced by this wave of new rock musicians and created the Nashville sound. Some rockabilly musicians include Johnny Cash, who was more influential in folk music as he developed his style, Buddy Holly, who could have ... term rock an roll. Chapter eight focuses on soul/mowtown music. This music had great influence around the 1960's which were times of tumult and confusion. Rock music had new messages and new means to ...

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... and that progress could be achieved through the power of reason. This led them to call this period The Age of Enlightenment'. These radical new ways of looking at the world ended up paving the way for the American and French revolutions towards the end of the eighteenth century. ... period differed greatly from the Baroque period and offered a more lightly coloured, graceful look with smoothly curving lines in the paintings and buildings. This new style was much more intimate and was given the name rococo. The great painters of the time of the time, namely Jean Honoré ... occurred fro...

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... of the rag enabled Joplin to leave the hectic life of a honky-tonk player for teaching and composition. In 1900, with his wife, Belle, Joplin traveled to St. Louis, where a new cosmopolitan style had arisen that featured a staccato speed technique and dazzling display. This contrasted Joplin's supple, legato, singing style of moderate tempo. Joplin's ragtime gave melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, and ... syphilis, a general mental and physical deterioration, ending in paralysis and death. Unfortunately, ragtime was no longer king when he died. The Original Dixieland Jazz Band opened in 1917, ...

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