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music and now
That after all his years of effort to become a composer, he should now, now when he was still stoutly replying to the critics of his Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, be so close to a success in music and have to reject it.
But now music too??
All these emotions were screwed up to new heights when, after acceptance and the first rehearsals, there ensued such a buzz of excitement among Parisian music lovers that Duclos had to come running to Rousseau to inform him that the news had reached the superintendent of the King's amusements, and that he was now demanding that the work be offered first at the royal summer palace of Fontainebleau.
Henry Hall Wilson, a student at the music camp 25 years ago and now on the President's staff as liaison representative with the House of Representatives, turned guest conductor for a Sousa march, the `` Stars and Stripes Forever ''.
The birds were really awake now in a colloquy of music, and light was beginning to creep across the room, touching sill and door, table and chair and all of Doaty's flowers in their artificial blossom and leaf.
Afrobeat is now one of the most recognizable music genres in the world and has influenced as many Western musicians as it has African ones with its exuberant style and polyrhythms.
Why, man, that's the same kind of music we've been playin ' since 1928 !... We didn't call it rock and roll back when we introduced it as our style back in 1928, and we don't call it rock and roll the way we play it now.
Coldcut's live and DJ sets now relied on video as much as music.
More recently, with the advent of personal computing, and the growth of home recording, the term computer music is now sometimes used to describe any music that has been created using computing technology.
Computer music systems and approaches are now ubiquitous, and so firmly embedded in the process of creating music that we hardly give them a second thought: computer-based synthesizers, digital mixers, and effects units have become so commonplace that use of digital rather than analog technology to create and record music is the norm, rather than the exception.
Although any music which uses computers in its composition or realisation is computer-generated to some extent, the use of computers is now so widespread ( in the editing of pop songs, for instance ) that the phrase computer-generated music is generally used to mean a kind of music which could not have been created without the use of computers.
This book was produced with the aim of providing extra music for non-congregational music items within services ( eg voluntaries, meditations, etc ) but has been adopted by congregations worldwide and is now used to supplement congregational repertoire.
Knuth had a difficult time choosing physics over music as his major at Case Institute of Technology ( now part of Case Western Reserve University ).
Electronic musical instruments are now widely used in most styles of music.
Despite predictions from the music press that the band would fold without Wood, who had been the driving force behind the creation of ELO, Lynne stepped up to lead the band, with Bev Bevan remaining on drums, joined by Gibson, Richard Tandy ( now on the Moog synthesiser ), Mike de Albuquerque on bass and vocals and Mike Edwards and Colin Walker on cellos.
Folk music was already " seen as the authentic expression of a way of life now past or about to disappear ( or in some cases, to be preserved or somehow revived )," particularly in " a community uninfluenced by art music " and by commercial and printed song.
The spread of music videos now means there is a steady demand for emerging talent without the requirements of seeking feature film funding.

music and transitions
Orchestration differs in that it is only adapting music for an orchestra or musical ensemble while arranging " involves adding compositional techniques, such as new thematic material for introductions, transitions, or modulations, and endings ... Arranging is the art of giving an existing melody musical variety " ( ibid ).
Turntablism embodies the art of cutting, beat juggling, scratching, needle drops, phase shifting, back spinning, and more to perform the transitions and overdubs of samples in a more creative manner ( although turntablism is often considered a use of the turntable as a musical instrument rather than a tool for blending recorded music ).
Another distinctive feature of the album was the orchestral passages that Evans had devised as transitions between the different tracks, which were joined together with the innovative use of editing in the post-production phase, turning each side of the album into a seamless piece of music.
Although earlier BBC radio shows such as Much Binding in the Marsh, Take It From Here and Beyond Our Ken had conditioned listeners to a mix of music, sketches and jokes within a 30 minute show, and Round the Horne was also doing this, ISIRTA ( as it was known to its friends ) accelerated the transitions, and it certainly seemed more improvised.
It was during these transitions that he would use music, which might begin at the end of one scene, progress through the static transition, and fade into the new scene.
He rarely used non-diegetic music in any scenes other than in the transitions.
Some later levels begin in lifts and feature transitions from elevator music to full soundtracks, which Gerstmann cited as examples of the music's ability to add ambience to the game, and as an illustration of the game's attention to detail.
The band does transitions in lengthy instrumental jams from fusion of rock and ambient world music daringly to jazz and progressive hard rock tones.
The two designed the iMUSE system as an advanced MIDI sequencer, but over the years, it has come to be, as Land describes it, " a methodology " that allows game producers greater control over in-game music, transitions, etc.
For example, Apple's iPhoto allows groups of digital photos to be displayed in a slide show with options such as selecting transitions, choosing whether or not the show stops at the end or continues to loop, and including music to accompany the photos.
The documentary makes effective use of visuals, transitions, and dramatic music from or evocative of the eras being covered.
Often both the events in the video and the transitions between the clips are synchronized with events in the music.
It is possible to add transitions, pan and zoom effects, video clips, background music, narrations, captions, etc.
Some commentators talk about his music in cinematic terms ; one can find equivalents of the dissolve ( in his ubiquitous blurred tonal transitions ), zoom ( such as the long crescendo a third of the way into the Sixth Symphony ), abrupt cuts ( jumping from very quiet to very loud, as in the opening of the Fifth Symphony ), and so on.
The theme is used as introductory music, as an interlude during transitions, and is played again as the program concludes.
The production was also influenced by NYPD Blue, and featured similar music and scene transitions.
The original animation and music were kept, except for the opening theme, which was the same as DiC's version, but with different animation, the closing theme, which was the same as DiC's opening / closing without the vocal track, and CGI scene transitions which were continued for the edited television broadcast version to maintain consistency with the DiC-produced episodes.
If you're looking for a unique journey of music built alternately around dual guitar harmonies knocking into sequences when the two guitars and the bass are all playing different parts, stop-start transitions at times and smooth here-to-theres at others, here you go.
Bumper music, or a bump, is a term used in the radio broadcasting industry to refer to short clips of signature or theme music used to buffer transitions between programming elements.
Students learn new software, choose images, edit video, make voiceover narration, add music, create title screens, and control flow and transitions.
Part of the show's identity was the style, such as surreal fly-on-the-wall style camera work, fast camera transitions, wacky sound effects added to some scenes and the distinctive theme music ( the tune " Would you ...?
Transitions should correspond to the transitions in the music.
The tutti then transitions the music to the dominant key for the second subject area, which begins with the first theme transposed to D major.

music and quiet
Seeking an obscure, dark, relatively quiet corner in the airy room otherwise suffused with afternoon sunshine, he asked if the soft background music could be turned off.
Class AB is widely considered a good compromise for audio amplifiers, since much of the time the music is quiet enough that the signal stays in the " class A " region, where it is amplified with good fidelity, and by definition if passing out of this region, is large enough that the distortion products typical of class B are relatively small.
The overnight programming, from midnight to the beginning of drive time, is generally low-key music with quiet, if any, announcing.
For example, conversations of other people may be called noise by people not involved in any of them ; any unwanted sound such as domesticated dogs barking, neighbours playing loud music, portable mechanical saws, road traffic sounds, or a distant aircraft in quiet countryside, is called noise.
At the time, such imagery was viewed as nationalistic and racially insensitive by the British music press ; to quiet concerns, Blur subsequently released the " British Image 2 " photo, which was " a camp restaging of a pre-war aristocratic tea party ".
Tracy spent the majority of the next two years at home with Hepburn, living what she described as a quiet life: reading, painting and listening to music.
A recent branch of improvised music is characterized by quiet, slow moving, minimalistic textures and often utilizing laptop computers or unorthodox forms of electronics.
Feldman's works are characterized by notational innovations that he developed to create his characteristic sound: rhythms that seem to be free and floating ; pitch shadings that seem softly unfocused ; a generally quiet and slowly evolving music ; recurring asymmetric patterns.
This led to the development of what would jocularly become known as ' insect improv ' -- music that tended to be very quiet, very intense, arrhythmic, and by and large atonal.
: Rui likes to be left alone and hides in quiet, isolated places such as the emergency exit at the school and other spots ( music room ).
Gaye's later music influenced the quiet storm, urban contemporary, slow jam and neo-soul music genres.
As soon as he leaves, the music ceases and everyone grows quiet.
With the Stanhopes ' return to Italy, life in the Cathedral Close returns to its previous quiet and settled ways and Mr Harding continues his life of gentleness and music.
Harvey describes herself as " an extremely quiet person, who doesn't go out much, doesn't talk to people " and has also acquired a reputation for eccentricity to match her music ; for example, Steve Albini claimed she ate nothing but potatoes while making Rid of Me.
Despite his previous affinity with politically and socially-charged lyrical themes, Gaye helped popularize sexual and romance-themed music and funk, while his 1970s recordings, including Let's Get It On ( 1973 ) and I Want You ( 1976 ) helped develop the quiet storm sound and format.
He then purchased a remote farm estate in the hills of Gloucestershire to live a quiet life away from the music world.
The USO club was a place to go for dances and social events, for movies and music, for a quiet place to talk or write a letter home, or for a free cup of coffee and an egg.
: The movement opens with a long introduction, beginning with the " cry of despair " that was the climax of the third movement, followed by the quiet presentation of a theme which re-appears as structural music in the choral section, and by a call in the offstage horns.
Composed of two side-long suites edited heavily by producer Teo Macero, this quiet, static album would be equally influential upon the development of ambient music.
Influential to neo soul, UK act Sade achieved success in the 1980s with music that featured a sophisti-pop style, incorporating elements of soul, pop, smooth jazz, and quiet storm.
The reader or hearer does not have to be told that loud music has a sound, and in a newspaper headline or other abbreviated prose can even be counted upon to infer that " burglary " is a proxy for " sound of the burglary " and that the music necessarily must have been loud to drown it out, unless the burglary was relatively quiet ( this is not a trivial issue, as it may affect the legal culpability of the person who played the music ); the word " loud " may imply that the music should have been played quietly if at all.

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