On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

`` There was always and at all times a contemporary music and it expresses the era in which it was created.

But his prime interest, apart from music, he insisted seriously, was his family -- his wife, daughter and son.

In due time Sandburg was a walking thesaurus of American folk music.

With her son evidencing so strong a musical bent his mother could do little else but get him started on the study of music -- though she waited until he was ten -- beginning with the piano and following that with the trumpet.

The music drove them off, or away, and he was free to walk on air in a very few moments, humming and jiving within, beating the rhythm within.

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.

For it was Rameau's type of music that he had been trying to write, and that he couldn't write.

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.

the college was one of the first to recognize the importance of music not only as a definite part of the curriculum but as a vital adjunct to campus life.

Dan Beam presented music and the bride was given in marriage by her father.

She was not present yesterday, however, to enjoy the music or watch the faces of the delighted audience.

There was in the Brahms none of the mysterious and marvelous alchemy by which a great conductor can bring soloist, orchestra and music to ultimate fusion.

One of the script's big problems was how to blend pictures and music of the past with live performances by musicians of today.

For example, there was sheet music with the word `` jazz '' in the title, to illustrate how a word of uncertain origin took hold.

So, what was the deepest music on her program had the poorest showing.

The book is by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, choreography by Peter Gennaro, scenery, costumes and lighting by William and Jean Eckart, musical direction by Jack Elliott, and the production was directed by Mr. Abbott.

The music sang nicely, sprinted evenly when necessary, was properly accented and balanced.

What is interesting about these chamber works here is how they all reveal the aspect of French music that was moving toward the rococo.

Rococo music -- a lot of it -- was played in Carnegie Recital Hall on Saturday night in the first of four concerts being sponsored this season by a new organization known as Globe Concert Arts.

Before her chore was finished she was rescuing wind-blown sheets of music, trundling microphones about the stage, helping to move the piano and otherwise joining in the informal atmosphere.

A very casual, pleasant program -- one of those easy-going things that make Newport's afternoon programs such a relaxing delight -- was held again under sunny skies, hot sun, and a fresh breeze for an audience of at least a couple of thousands who came to Newport to hear music rather than go to the beach.

The entrance of the Stadtisches Gesangverein ( Bonn's civic chorus ) was worth all the waiting, however, as the young Rhenish voices finally brought the music to life.

Chaunters sold sheet music and patterers offered cheap, tawdry goods at fairs and markets up and down the country ).

Community radio often relies heavily on the music format because it is relatively cheap and generally makes for easy listening.

Whistles are a prevalent starting instrument in English traditional music, Scottish traditional music and Irish traditional music, since they are often cheap ( under US $ 10 ), relatively easy to start with ( no tricky embouchure such as found with the flute ), and the fingerings are nearly identical to those on the traditional six holed flute ( Irish flute, baroque flute ).

The style did not evolve out of a conscious attempt to create an appealing fashion ; music journalist Charles R. Cross said, " frontman Kurt Cobain was just too lazy to shampoo ," and Sub Pop's Jonathan Poneman said, " This is cheap, it's durable, and it's kind of timeless.

Noël Coward once drily observed how extraordinarily potent cheap music is.

About his contribution to music, McLaren has said about himself: " I have been called many things: a charlatan, a con man, or, most flatteringly, the culprit responsible for turning British popular culture into nothing more than a cheap marketing gimmick.

In the early 1990s however, musicians from the techno, rave and DJ scenes who were interested in producing electronic music, but without the budget for large digital systems, began to take an interest in the then cheap second hand analog equipment available.

Drum machines in general became an integral part of hip hop music as a cheap and simple way of producing a drum sound.

It was the latter who really created the business, and is credited of introducing cheap music and of departing from the method of publishing by subscription.

It was the first British shoe factory to introduce music in the workplace ( 1936 ), and washable children ’ s sandals (‘ Plastisha ’ 1957 ), but it closed in 1989 as a result of competition from cheap imports.

Some modern boombox designs provide other connections for MP3 ( and sometimes other digital formats ) such as a USB connector for use with a removable USB drive, slots for various flash memory media such as SD, MMC, SmartMedia and Memory Stick, or even a CD drive capable of reading MP3s directly from a CD, thus allowing for a relatively cheap and large music storage to be carried and played back at full volume.

According to Katherine Charlton, the " term Tin Pan Alley referred to the thin, tinny tone quality of cheap upright pianos used in music publisher's offices.

Despite the city's historic importance in the development of American music, there are those who feel that its status has declined in recent years, due to a combination of increased corporate control over music media, an increase in the cost-of-living and the rise of local music scenes whose success is facilitated by the cheap communication provided by the Internet.

Playford, in order to meet competition from purveyors of cheap music, established, in 1699, a music concert to held three evenings in the week at a coffee house.

At the time it was the most expensive music video for any Finnish band, and wasn't too cheap internationally either.

GameSpot noted that the good points of the game include playing as a dolphin, the more challenging levels than the first game and also the music, but that negative points come from the fact that it is still easy to get lost as well as slow hit detection and poor turning, which results in " cheap hits ".

Snakebite and Beast were two of the many bands playing in the local clubs and bars and recording cheap demos to promote their music.

The 1999 live album, Mad for Sadness, describing an electric life of being young, enjoying ones wholeness youth, experimenting with pleasures, drugs, cheap alcohol, and most imporatantly love that was defined by sex ; demonstrated how the sometimes spare recorded sound of their early music could lift into a celebration of a sexually empty, drug-and alcohol-dependent life.