... harmony. During the Middle Ages, nonreligious music was mostly learned by ear and not by script for the composers and performers of music were mostly illiterate minstrels. Minstrels made their living by chanting long poems about heroic deeds, such as "Song of Roland", and playing dance music on harps, bagpipes, bowed stringed instruments, and recorders. Minstrels also entertained with acrobatic stunts and magic tricks ... . After the 11th century, many minstrels became members of feudal houses while some others learned to write music. Therefore, a few dances and songs ... mot means word ...

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... said to probably be Sam Phillips` last desperate attempt to keep Jerry Lee with his record company. His Mother Mamie was later a backup singer for a gospel song he performed known as "In Loving Memories-. Both of Jerry Lee`s sisters have recorded in the Sun Studios. Linda still has an ongoing career in the music industry. Frankie Jean runs the Ferriday family museum ... his skills to play rock and roll. So with his cousin J.W. Brown on bass, Jimmy Van Eaton on drums, and Roland James on guitar, he cut a rock version of a song called "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On-. On a single take they ...

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... Victrola record players that original recordings were made. During the turn of the century recording were done in room that contained a set up of about 10 or so Victrolas. The band would set up and play a song. All of the machines would record. Then the discs were replaced with ... ninety records and hour (Sage). The next major break through was in 1925 when the microphone replaced the recording horn. "The energy of the sounds of the recording musicians were converted in the microphone to electric currents, which were amplified to drive the cutting stylus (Hoover pg. 81)". ... was prese...

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