* Words, sheet music & MIDI file at the Cyber Hymnal

* m4a – An audio-only MPEG-4 file, used by Apple for unprotected music downloaded from their iTunes Music Store.

Once an idea has been reduced to tangible form, for example by securing it in a fixed medium ( such as a drawing, sheet music, photograph, a videotape, or a computer file ), the copyright holder is entitled to enforce his or her exclusive rights.

Since the invention of the MIDI system in the early 1980s, for example, some people have worked on programs which map MIDI notes to an algorithm and then can either output sounds or music through the computer's sound card or write an audio file for other programs to play.

When the music is stored in an audio file format that is lossless such as FLAC, Monkey's Audio or WMA Lossless, the computer playback of recorded audio can serve as an audiophile-quality source for a hi-fi system.

Kazaa Media Desktop was commonly used to exchange MP3 music files and other file types, such as videos, applications, and documents over the internet.

In 2003, several companies started offering a karaoke service on mobile phones, using a Java MIDlet that runs with a text file containing the words and a MIDI file with the music.

* Module file, a family of music file formats

A MIDI file is in no way a recording of actual music, it is a spreadsheet-like set of instructions, and can use a thousand times less disk space than the equivalent recorded audio.

This made MIDI file arrangements an attractive way to share music, before the advent of broadband internet access and multi-gigabyte hard drives.

PDAs may be used by music enthusiasts to play a variety of music file formats.

The RIAA is also known to have uploaded fake music and movies to P2P networks in order to deter illegal file sharing.

The Internet has been playing an increasingly larger role in punk, specifically in the form of virtual communities and file sharing programs for trading music files.

Encoding an identifying code into digitized music, video, picture, or other file is known as a digital watermark.

Many people no longer use cassette tapes for music listening and, in a few countries, cassette tapes are only used for language learning, which is now significantly declining thanks to podcasts from BBC or CNN or trends of ( foreign-language learning ) publishers which adopt MP3 file services or attached CDs rather than attaching tapes to their publications.

The W800 and W550 / W600 had numerous audio capabilities including playlists, audio equalization, support for the M4A audio file format, and the ability to operate only as music player, with the telephony electronics switched off.

The functionality of the library includes support for basic 2D graphics, image manipulation, text output, audio output, MIDI music, input and timers, as well as additional routines for fixed-point and floating-point matrix arithmetic, Unicode strings, file system access, file manipulation, data files, and ( limited, software-only ) 3D graphics.

The community of Allegro users have contributed several library extensions to handle things like scrolling tile maps and import and export of various file formats ( e. g. PNG, GIF, JPEG images, MPEG video, Ogg, MP3, IT, S3M, XM music, TTF fonts, and more ).

FastTrack was the most popular file sharing network in 2003, and used mainly for the exchange of music mp3 files.

A sketch score can be generated through the use of a midi file which is then imported into a music notation program such as Finale or Sibelius.

An example could be downloading a music file from a band: the band's record company could come up with rules for how the band's music can be used.

In 1964, French singer Léo Ferré set to music fourteen poems from Verlaine ( Écoutez la chanson bien douce, Il patinait merveilleusement, Mon rêve familier, Soleils couchants, L ' espoir luit (...), Art poétique, Pensionnaires, Âme, te souvient-il ?, Chanson d ' automne, Green, Je vous vois encor, Ô triste, triste était mon âme, Clair de lune, Sérénade ) along with Arthur Rimbaud in his album Léo Ferré chante Verlaine et Rimbaud.

Catalogued in the CNC ( Centre National de la Cinématographie ) archives under the impersonal moniker ‘ Film Tati Nº 4 ’, Written in the late 1950s, the treatment was to have been the follow-up to Tati ’ s internationally successful “ Mon Oncle .” It tells the bittersweet tale of a modestly talented magician — referred to only as the illusionist — who, during a tour of decaying music halls in Eastern Europe, protectively takes an impoverished young woman under his wing.

His performance of Mon cœur s ' ouvre à ta voix was used as the music for the closing credits.

Mon David has also made the rounds of the Las Vegas music circuit.

From the 1960s on, she also had a career in music with such hits as " Mon truc en plumes ".

* Le merle 1958, is combination of the ( white ) cut-outs and ( pastel ) backgrounds ( music is the French folksong " Mon Merle )-by Norman McLaren.

:* The music of this first part of the composition concentrates on the so-called " purring " of the holothurian, besides making fun of Loïsa Puget's song Mon rocher de Saint-Malo (" My rock of Saint-Malo "-a then popular salon composition, which Satie had probably played numerous times in his cabaret pianist career ).

Other influences include Mon music ( called Talaing than or " sounds of the Talaing "), particularly in the Mahagita (), the complete body of classical Burmese music.

The collection is divided into several different types of songs, including the following: kyo, bwe, thachin gan, the oldest repertoires ; pat pyo, royal court music ; lwan chin, songs of longing ; lay dway than gat ; myin gin, music that makes horses dance ; nat chin, songs used to worship the nat, Burmese spirits ; yodaya, music introduced from Ayutthaya, Talaing than, music adapted from the Mon people and bole, songs of sorrow.

The first of Asso's songs for which Monnot wrote the music was " Mon légionnaire ", which was to become an international standard, published in seven languages.

Here in these little rooms -- or stages arched open to the sky and river -- they choose a few lines out of the hundreds they may know and sing them according to one of the modes into which Persian music is divided.

The music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg, has molded his group into a prominent musical organization, which is his life.

`` As my wife puts it '', he said, again with a twinkle in his eyes, `` all you know is your music.

`` Both children are musical and my wife is a music lover of unfailing instinct and judgement ''.

And the life they lead is undisciplined and for the most part unproductive, even though they make a fetish of devoting themselves to some creative pursuit -- writing, painting, music.

The music which Lautner has composed for this episode is for the most part `` rather pretty and perfectly banal ''.

) The stated goal of the CJS is the synthesis of jazz and `` serious '' music.

His approach to music is highly individualistic ; ;

A low-power, `` carrier-current '' broadcasting station, KARL, heard only in the campus dormitories, is owned and operated by the students to provide an outlet for student dramatic, musical, literary, technical, and other talents, and to furnish information, music, and entertainment for campus listeners.

The music is always allowed the living space needed to attain its full sonority ; ;

It is this sort of experience that makes the concept of high fidelity of real musical significance for the home music listener.

Your invitation to write about Serge Prokofieff to honor his 70th Anniversary for the April issue of Sovietskaya Muzyka is accepted with pleasure, because I admire the music of Prokofieff ; ;

This is precisely what makes lucid, straightforward music so difficult to compose -- the clarity must be new, not old ''.

Certainly, it is the traditional clarity of his music which has endeared him to the Western World -- not his experimentations.

and perhaps of even greater significance -- his music is strong 20th-Century evidence of the effectiveness of Evolution, based on a broad Traditionalism for the creative art of music.

I took a deep breath and an even deeper swallow of my drink, and said, `` I admit that going back to Ralph Waldo Emerson for humor is like going to a modern musical comedy for music and comedy ''.

If one characteristic distinguishes Boris Godunov, it is the consistency with which every person on the stage -- including the chorus -- comes alive in the music.

The music becomes ethereal as he calls up a vision of her own sainthood: it is she, he tells her, who can bring the truth to Russia and convert the heretics.

I think all this could apply to Parker just as well, although, because of the nature of music, it is not demonstrable -- at least not conclusively.

This is exactly what happened in the transition from baroque to rococo music.

Continuity exits, but like the neo-swing music developed from Lester Young, it is a continuity sustained by popular demand.

( `` It is always of sorrow to me when I find people who neither know nor understand music '', he declared not long ago in proposing that White House prizes be awarded for music and art.

The Louisiana city is known, of course, for its fine food, good music and its colorful hospitality `` and, when guests arrive at Philmont that night '', says Mrs. Grinsfelder, `` that is exactly what we expect to offer them.