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musical material, or composition, as held in western classical

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music. Even when music is notated precisely, there Great Music Products are still many decisions that a performer has to make. The process of a performer deciding how to perform music that has been previously composed and notated is termed interpretation. Different performers' interpretations of the same music can vary widely. Composers and song writers who present their Great Music Products own music are interpreting, Great Music Products just Great Music Products as much as those who perform the music of others or Great Music Products folk music. The standard Great Music Products body of choices and techniques present at a given time and a given place is referred to as performance practice, where as Great Music Products interpretation is Great Music Products generally used to Great Music Products mean either individual choices of

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a performer, or Great Music Products an aspect of music which is Great Music Products not clear, and therefore has a "standard" interpretation. In some musical genres, such as jazz and blues, even more freedom is given to the performer to engage in improvisation on a basic melodic, harmonic, or rhythmic framework. The greatest latitude is given to the performer in Great Music Products a style of performing called free improvisation, which is material that is spontaneously Great Music Products "thought of" (imagined) while being performed, not preconceived. According to the analysis of Georgiana Costescu,[citation needed] improvised music Great Music Products usually Great Music Products follows stylistic or genre conventions and even "fully composed" includes some freely chosen material. Composition does not always mean the use of notation, or the Great Music Products known sole authorship of one individual. Music can also be determined by describing a Great Music Products "process" which may create musical sounds; examples of this range from wind Great Music Products chimes, through computer programs Great Music Products which select sounds. Music which contains elements selected Great Music Products by chance is called Aleatoric music, and is associated with such composers as John Cage, Morton Feldman, and Witold Lutoslawski. Musical composition is a Great Music Products term that describes the composition of a piece of music. Methods of composition vary widely from one composer to another, however in analysing music all forms � spontaneous, trained, or Great Music Products untrained � are built from Halo Theme Sheet Music elements comprising a musical Great Music Products piece. Great Music Products Music Great Music Products can be composed for repeated performance or it

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can be improvised: composed on the spot. The music can be performed entirely from memory, from a written system of musical notation, or some combination of both. Study of composition has traditionally been dominated by examination of methods and practice of Western classical music, but the definition of Great Music Products composition is broad enough to include spontaneously improvised works Great Music Products like those of free jazz performers and African drummers. What is Great Music Products important in understanding the composition of a piece is Great Music Products singling out its elements. An understanding of music's formal elements can be helpful in deciphering Great Music Products exactly how a piece is constructed. A universal element of music is how sounds occur in time, which is referred Great Music Products to as the rhythm of a piece of music. When a piece appears to have a changing time-feel, it is Great Music Products considered to be in rubato time, an Italian expression that indicates that the tempo of the piece changes Great Music Products to suit the expressive intent of the performer. Even random placement of random sounds, which occurs in musical montage, Great Music Products occurs within some kind Great Music Products of Great Music Products time, and thus employs time as a Great Music Products musical element. Notation is the written expression of music notes and rhythms on paper using symbols. When music is written down, the pitches and rhythm of the music Great Music Products is notated, along with instructions on how to perform the music. The Great Music Products study of how to read notation involves music theory, harmony, the study of performance practice, and in some cases an Great Music Products understanding of historical performance methods. Written notation varies with

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style and period Great Music Products of music. In Western Art Great Music Products music, the most common types of Great Music Products written notation are scores, which include all the music parts Great Music Products of an ensemble piece, and parts, Great Music Products which are the music notation for the Great Music Products individual performers or singers. In popular Great Music Products music, jazz, and blues, the standard musical notation Great Music Products is the Great Music Products lead sheet, which notates the melody, chords, lyrics (if Great Music Products it Great Music Products is a vocal piece), and structure of the music. Scores and parts are also used in popular music and jazz, particularly in large ensembles Great Music Products such as Great Music Products jazz "big Great Music Products bands." In

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popular music, Great Music Products guitarists and electric bass players often read music notated in

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tablature, which indicates the location Great Music Products of the notes to be played on Great Music Products the instrument using a diagram of the guitar or bass fingerboard. Tabulature was Great Music Products also used in the Baroque era to notate music for the lute, a stringed, fretted instrument. Notated music is produced as sheet music. Great Music Products To perform music Great Music Products from Great Music Products notation Great Music Products requires an understanding of both Great Music Products the musical style and the performance practice that is associated with a piece of music or genre. Improvisation is the creation of spontaneous Great Music Products music. Improvisation is Great Music Products often considered an act of instantaneous composition by composers, where compositional techniques are employed with or without preparation. Music theory encompasses the nature and mechanics of music. Great Music Products It often involves identifying patterns that govern composers' techniques. In a more Great Music Products detailed sense, music theory (in the western system) also distills and analyzes the elements Great Music Products of music � rhythm, harmony (harmonic function), melody, structure, and texture. People who study these properties are known as music theorists. The field of music cognition involves the study of many aspects of music including how it is Great Music Products processed by listeners. Rather than accepting the standard practices of analyzing, composing, and performing music as a given, much research in music cognition seeks instead to uncover the mental processes that underlie these practices. Also, research in the field seeks to uncover commonalities between the musical traditions of disparate cultures and possible cognitive "constraints" that limit Great Music Products these musical systems. Questions regarding

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musical innateness, and emotional responses to Great Music Products music are also major Great Music Products areas of research in Great Music Products the field. Deaf people can experience Great Music Products music by feeling the vibrations in their body, a process which can be enhanced if the individual holds a resonant, hollow object. A Great Music Products well-known deaf Great Music Products musician Great Music Products is Great Music Products the composer Ludwig van Beethoven, who composed many famous works even after he had completely lost his hearing. Recent examples of deaf musicians include Evelyn Glennie, a highly acclaimed percussionist who has been

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deaf since age twelve, and Chris Buck, a virtuoso violinist who has lost his hearing. This is relevant because it indicates that music is a deeper cognitive process than unexamined phrases such as, "pleasing Great Music Products to the ear" would suggest. Much research in music cognition seeks to uncover these complex mental processes involved in Great Music Products listening to music, which may seem intuitively simple, yet are vastly intricate and complex.The music that composers make can Great Music Products be heard through several media; the most traditional way is to hear it Great Music Products live, in the presence, or as one of the musicians. Live music can also Great Music Products be broadcast over the radio, television or the internet. Some musical styles focus on producing a sound for a performance, while others focus on producing a recording which mixes

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together sounds which were never played "live". Recording, even of styles which are essentially live, often uses the ability to edit and splice to produce recordings Great Music Products which are considered better than the actual performance. As Great Music Products talking pictures Great Music Products emerged in the early 20th century, with Great Music Products their prerecorded musical tracks, an increasing number of Great Music Products moviehouse orchestra musicians found themselves out of work.[6] During the Great Music Products 1920s live musical performances Great Music Products by orchestras, pianists, and theater organists

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were common at first-run theaters[7] With the coming of the talking motion pictures, those featured performances were largely eliminated. The AFM took out 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 can labeled "Canned Music / Big Noise Brand / Guaranteed to Produce No Intellectual or Emotional Reaction Whatever" Since legislation introduced to help protect performers, composers, publishers and producers, including the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 in the United States, and the 1979 revised Berne Great Music Products Convention for the Protection of Literary Great Music Products and Artistic Works in the United Kingdom, Great Music Products recordings and Great Music Products live performances have also become more accessible through computers, devices and internet in a form that is commonly Great Music Products known as music-on-demand. In many cultures, there is less distinction between Great Music Products performing and listening to music, since virtually everyone is involved in some sort of musical activity, often communal. In industrialised countries, listening to Great Music Products music through a 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. Sometimes, live performances incorporate prerecorded sounds. For example, a DJ uses Great Music Products disc records for scratching, and some Great Music Products 20th-century works have a solo for an instrument or voice that is performed along

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with music that is prerecorded onto a tape. Computers and many keyboards can be programmed to produce and play MIDI music. Audiences can also become performers by participating in Karaoke, an activity of Japanese origin which centres around a device that plays voice-eliminated Great Music Products versions of well-known songs. Great Music Products Most karaoke machines also have video Great Music Products screens Great Music Products that Great Music Products show Great Music Products lyrics to songs being performed; performers can follow the lyrics as

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they sing over the instrumental tracks. The advent of the Internet has transformed the Great Music Products experience of music, partly Great Music Products through the increased ease of access to music and the increased choice. Chris Anderson, in his book The Long Tail: Why the future of business Great Music Products is selling less Great Music Products of more, suggests Great Music Products that while the economic model of Great Music Products supply and Great Music Products demand describes scarcity, the Internet Great Music Products retail model is based Great Music Products on abundance. Digital storage costs are low, so a company Great Music Products can afford to make its whole inventory Great Music Products available online, giving customers as much choice as possible. It has thus become economically viable to offer products that very few Great Music Products people are interested

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in. Consumers' growing awareness of their increased choice results in a closer

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association between listening tastes Great Music Products and social identity, and the creation of thousands of niche markets. Another effect of the Internet arises with online communities like Youtube and Myspace. Myspace has made social networking with Great Music Products other musicians easier, and greatly facilitates Great Music Products the distribution of one's music. Youtube also has a large community of both amateur and professional musicians who post videos and comments. Professional musicians also use Youtube as a free publisher of Great Music Products promotional material. Youtube users, for Great Music Products example, no longer only download Great Music Products and listen to mp3s, but also actively create their own. According to Tapscott and Williams, there has been a shift from a Great Music Products traditional consumer role to what they call a "prosumer" role, a consumer who both creates and consumes. Manifestations of Great Music Products this in music include the production of mashes, remixes, and music videos by fans.

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