The metronome dates from the early 19th century, where it was patented by Johann Maelzel in 1815 as a tool for musicians, under the title " Instrument / Machine for the Improvement of all Musical Performance, called Metronome ".

Through questionable practice, Johann Maelzel, incorporating Winkel's ideas added a scale and called it metronome, started manufacturing the metronome under his own name in 1816: " Maelzel's Metronome ".

Metronome tracks are a lot more flexible in that they can be made by the musician and can use different sounds and samples instead of just the regular metronome beep.

Numerous other quotations in favour of the metronome, can be found in the book Metronome Techniques: Potpourri of quotations.

Numerous other quotations critical of the metronome can be found at Wikiquote: Metronome.

The Metronome is a giant, functional metronome located overlooking the Vltava River and the city center of Prague.

The most well-known ability that a Clefairy has is the ability to use Metronome, a move that involves wiggling its fingers back and forth in order to execute any move at random.

He is founder and Executive Producer of NMC Recordings, and has also produced recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, Virgin Classics, Conifer, Collins, Bridge, BMG, Continuum, Metronome and Elektra Nonesuch ( Górecki's Third Symphony, for which he received a Grammy nomination ).

* Maelzel will be especially remembered [...] by the Metronome.

He can be heard playing Lady Fair on the Verve release Metronome All-Stars 1956.

The musical direction was by Nicolas Repetto-care, Nico is not the driver, and the production is Metronome Music.

* 1982: Playtime: Children's Songs by Kenny Drew and Mads Vinding ( Metronome )-with Mads Vinding

Their collections included archive images from The New York Times, Metronome and George Eastman House, and works by photographers such as Ruth Orkin, Deborah Feingold, Murray Garrett, Nat Fein and John Filo.

A Pan-European license was signed with Metronome / PolyGram ( now Universal Music ) but they were turned down by the American division.

O ' Connell was selected by Down Beat readers as best female singer in 1940 and 1941 and won the 1940 Metronome magazine poll for best female vocalist.

The first serious pictures discs ( with acceptable but still inferior sound quality ) were developed by Metronome Records GmbH ( a subsidiary of Polydor Records ).

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Metronome, the Swedish record company recorded his music played by an international quintet: Allan Botschinsky ( trumpet ), Jan " Ptaszyn " Wróblewski ( tenor saxophone ), Krzysztof Komeda ( piano ), Roman Dyląg ( stage name: Gucio ; contrabass ) and Rune Carlsson ( percussion ).

* The Metronome Heart by James Ross

It issued recordings by British musicians, and others, under licence, from the American Prestige label, the Chicago blues label Delmark, and the Swedish Metronome label.

Unfortunately he did not appropriately protect his idea, and by 1816, Johann Nepomuk Mälzel added a Scale to the Instrument and patented it as Mälzel Metronome, which remains in use to this day.

The Metronome, usually called Maelzel's, ought to bear the name of Winkel, for the original idea was his ; although it is true that Maelzel brought to perfection the instrument which was invented by the Dutch mechanic.

Tex Beneke is listed in the personnel of the 1941 Metronome All-Star Band led by Benny Goodman.

in Dutch by Dybex, Italian by Dynit, in Polish by IDG and in Swedish by Sandrew Metronome.

The savage barbarian hordes of red Russian Communism descended on the Athens that was mighty Metronome, sacking and despoiling with their Bolshevistic battle cry of `` Soak the rich '!!

Not only were the court costs prohibitive, but I was subjected to crippling fines, in addition to usurious interest on the unpaid `` debts '' which the government claimed that Metronome and I owed -- a severe financial blow.

The band announced on their website that they would start recording their tenth album on January 31, 2011 at the Atlantis / Metronome studios in Stockholm, once again with Jens Bogren ( engineering ) and Steven Wilson from Porcupine Tree.

In 1973, he collaborated with the German avant-rock band Embryo on an album of four somber, laid-back instrumentals titled Rocksession ( released on the German label Brain Metronome records ).

His first recorded composition, " I Hope This Time Isn't the Last ," appears on Thad Jones Live at Slukefter ( Metronome, 1980 ).

Catch parted with Metronome on good terms to take time out from the music industry.

The song was released on the 78 rpm records Metronome J 196 ( in Sweden ) and on Musica A 6905 ( in Norway ).

It was during this time that Shari began her music career on Metronome Records, releasing several albums in Europe.

Miller talked about his style in the May, 1939 issue of Metronome magazine.

They believed that the band's endless rehearsals and according to critic Amy Lee in Metronome magazine, " letter-perfect playing ", diminished any feeling from performances.

He helped his friend Glenn Miller with personnel using the connections that Simon had as editor with the now defunct Metronome magazine.

( or MM ), or Mälzel's Metronome.

She won Esquire magazine's New Star Award for 1947 as well as awards from Down Beat magazine continuously from 1947 through 1952, and from Metronome magazine from 1948 through 1953.

As George Simon in Metronome magazine notes at the time, " They're used in the foreground and background ( note some of the lovely obbligatos ) for vocal effects and for Tommy's trombone.

As a jazz artist he won the 1944 Esquire magazine Gold Award, was highly rated in the Metronome polls of 1937-42 and 1945, and was selected for the Playboy magazine All Star Band, 1957-60.

* Metronome Magazine, March, 1942: Jimmy Dorsey cover.

Metronome Editors.

While enjoying success in the middle-of-the-road and pop fields, Eckstine occasionally returned to his jazz roots, recording with Vaughan, Count Basie and Quincy Jones for separate LPs, and he regularly topped the Metronome and Down Beat polls in the Top Male Vocalist category: He won Esquire magazine's New Star Award in 1946 ; the Down Beat magazine Readers Polls from 1948 to 1952 ; and the Metronome magazine award as " Top Male Vocalist " from 1949 to 1954.

* Inez M. Cavanaugh, " Reminiscing in Tempo: Toby Hardwick Thinks Back Through the Years with Ellington: The Lion, Lippy, Bubber ...,", Metronome ( November 1944 ), 17, 26 ; as reprinted in Mark Tucker, The Duke Ellington Reader, New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

* Inez M. Cavanaugh, " Reminiscing in Tempo: Tricky Sam Goes Over the Great Times He Had with Duke, Bubber, Freddie Jenkins ,", Metronome ( February 1945 ), 17, 26 ; as reprinted in Mark Tucker, The Duke Ellington Reader, New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.