Music In Video Games
.... in video games is the number of bits which a sound Central Processing Unit
(CPU) has. The sound CPU is a component in a video game system which controls
every single sound which a system produces. This, then, obviously includes
music. Specifically, the CPU controls what sounds are to be played at what time,
their volume and dynamics, and each sound's length and rhythm. In a sense, the
sound CPU acts as a conductor who has absolute control over every single
instrument in his orchestra. The increase of the number of bits serves to
improve music quality by increasing the number of channels of sound which can be
played at the .....
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Romantic Music: The Ideals Of Instrumental Music
.... term, is music
associated with poetic, descriptive, and even narrative subject matter. This is
done not by means of musical figures imitating natural sounds and movements, but
by imaginative suggestion. Program music aimed to absorb and transmit the
imagined subject matter in such a way that the resulting work, although
"programmed", does not sound forced, and transcends the subject matter it seeks
to represent. Instrumental music thus became a vehicle for the utterance of
thoughts which, although first hinted in words, may ultimately be beyond the
power of words to fully express.
Practically every composer of the era w .....
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Neil Young In Halifax
.... Edward and I left for the concert at around quarter to seven. We
kind of got lost. We got to the show at around seven thirty. While we were in
line waiting to get in I could here the band that was performing. It was then
that I realized what I was about to experience. I stumbled to my seat, half
looking a my feet, half looking at the band on stage. I can't remember their
name but they were good. As soon as we sat down the band ended their set and
the lights came on. Then we just sat their for a while and I saw a lot of
people that I knew from Mabou.
The lights went out and the place started to rumble with excitement.
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Nirvana
.... and his friend went home. Kurt Cobain went
back to his place. He then shot himself and died April 5, 1994. He wasn˙t found
until April 8, 1994. When they found him he left a suicide note. It said stuff
in it like the band started to suck. And that their was already a rumor going
around that the band was going to break up. He was always bummed out about
everything and he didn˙t think anything was fun.
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"On Experiencing Verdi's Aida"
.... because I think that we all would act like that out of
jealousy and rage.
The music in Aida was terrific. I thought that they wonderfully designed
the tempo to match the acts. The costumes and scenery were also excellent. The
dances gave great drama and spice to the production. Overall, I thought that
Aida was an enticing journey of nationalistic warship and hierarchy.
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Paul McCartney: Six Feet Under?
.... University campus
newspaper, Northern Star, obtained a list of clues from a student who wrote a
research paper on the hoax. (Saki) Russell Gibb, a disc jockey for the Detroit
radio station, WNKR, then got a copy of it from a friend of his, and on his
radio show, proceeded to read them and even make up his own on the spot. Within
a few days, Gibb and his coworkers were astonished to see that newspapers and
reporters took his on-air joke too seriously and spread the story more widely.
(Saki) More clues came about when Fred Labour, arts reviewer of the University
of Michigan's student newspaper, The Michigan Daily, was asked to re .....
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Progression Of Music From The 1940's To The Present
.... an impact on Rock & Roll was with Bill Haley and
Jerry Lee Lewis. Jerry's career was huge, with his hits like "Whole Lotta
Shakin' goin' On" and "Great Balls of Fire". That is, his career was huge,
until the it was made public that he fell in love with a married his 13 year old
cousin. In 1957 Rock & Roll had been turned upsidedown when Buddy Holly hit the
airwaves with "That'll be the Day." Buddy Holly rolled out hit after hit after
hit. That is, until his plane went down in Iowa. He died at the young age of 22.
That night his music was playing non-stop and has not stopped playing to this
day.
The blues and gospel of Ja .....
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Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony Number Five
.... feature
of the music, intended to blur the tonality? Musicologists prefer the latter
explanation. This is by no means an unusual feature of his music, when he was
asked what the 4th symphony was about, RVW replied "It is about F-minor",
alluding to his sometimes hazy tonalities, often augmented by his use of modal,
mainly pentatonic melodies, which, with no leading note, often help to 'fudge'
the tonality. Apart from the horn call, the brass is seldom used, and the
texture is light and airy. The first violins then enter, high on the E string,
doubled at the octave below by the seconds in an introduction, before their main
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New Orleans Jazz Band: Dag
.... true Jazz. The
focus of this report will be on my life changing experience at a little place
known as The House of Blues. This amazing combination of bar and stage created
one of the most conducive atmospheres to music listening that I have ever been
involved with. The stage, similar to the Fox, in Boulder and the bar/restaurant,
similar to nothing both had a character and charm unique to itself. The
ceilings in the bar area were covered by sculpted silhouettes of every major
Jazz/Blues artist that ever played there. Images such as Louis Armstrong,
Lester Young, Dizzie Gillespie, Buddy Bolden, Horace Silvers, and Jelly Ro .....
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Review Of Gyorgi Ligeti's Danse Macarbei
.... measures. After a short
build, the threshold of noise is reached. All of the instruments of the band and
orchestra are playing at their highest volume, playing solos of a mixture of
styles, in a polyrhythmic soup of sound. The peak of this amalgamation is
reached, and the slow, almost drunken marching band pulls us away, towards the
end of the piece.
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SKA!
.... slower
rocksteady music style which later spawned the ever-popular reggae genre. Ska
music finally made its world debut in New York at the 1964 world's fair at the
Jamaican exhibition. By this time ska was an established musical genre. Ska
later emigrated to England where the English began to develop their own style
ska, which is seen in the second wave of ska.
Ska music can be divided into three waves, or periods. Each wave has a
characteristic style and sound distinguishing it from the others. Each wave
also has bands that represent them respectively. The first wave began in the
1950's and ended in or around 1968. The fir .....
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Stone Temple Pilots
.... a
Holein a Paper Heart), to the more subdued tracks of Creep, Pretty Penny, and
Big Empty. The STP trademark sound can be best heard on Plush, and Interstate
Love Song..Classic Rock and Roll for the new generation.. This band has it all-
variety, talent, harmony, lyrics and a great overall concept for each album
released.. It would be hard for me to say whichalbum is the "best" as each
carries with it its own style andflavor. Core is STP's forray into "pop"
culture carving out an immmediate presence in the "alternative" arena..Next,
came Purple- although sales were not quite as impressive as their first, this
album dives into new .....
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