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.

In orchestral repertoire and tango music, both arco and pizzicato are employed.

However, other tunings are occasionally employed, both in classical music, where the technique is known as scordatura, and in some folk styles.

* Synthesizers began to be employed widely in music and crossed over into the mainstream with new wave music in the 1980s.

The music used is original most of the time, but musical quotation is often employed.

Mozart's opera includes a Westernized version of Turkish music, based very loosely on the Turkish Janissary band music that he had employed in earlier work.

The Synclavier was also employed by experimental musicians, such as John McLaughlin, Kraftwerk, Laurie Anderson, Frank Zappa and Peter Buffett who used it extensively in their music.

Newman also used electronic music and on " quirkier " tracks employed more unorthodox methods, such as tapping metal mixing bowls with a finger and using a detuned mandolin.

In addition to these " fundamentals " there are other important concepts employed in music both in Western and non-Western cultures including " Scales and / or Modes " and " Consonance vs.

Anne particularly loved music and patronised the lutenist and composer John Dowland, previously employed at her brother's court in Denmark, as well as " more than a good many " French musicians.

He employed a system of notation developed in Spain that uses varied colors or textures for polyphonic music, usually ( from bottom to top ) solid black, solid red, black outline ( sometimes solid yellow ) and red outline ( or black outline when yellow was used ).

One of the earliest synthesizers to be employed in acid music was the Roland TB-303, which makes use of a resonant low-pass filter to emphasize the harmonics of the sound.

Folk music from multiple regions are employed by some groups like Elvenking and Ensiferum.

Noise music is a category consisting of multiple discrete genres of music that have employed noise as a musical resource.

: Augustus J. Jaeger was employed as music editor by the London publisher Novello & Co. For a long time he was a close friend of Elgar, giving him useful advice, but also severe criticism, something Elgar greatly appreciated.

Popular culture songs may be written by group members, but are now usually written by staff writers: songwriters directly employed by music publishers.

Vocal music employed a variety of different clefs to keep the range of the part on the staff as much as possible ; in keyboard notation a common way of avoiding ledger lines was the use of " open score " on four staves with different clefs ( Godwin 1974, 16 – 17 ).

In some music which is called " free jazz ", other compositional structures are employed, some of them very detailed and complex ; the music of Anthony Braxton furnishes many examples.

When not making music, Flesch, who holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science, is employed as a Senior Information Systems and Computer Science specialist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

For the recording of Brian's complete piano music, Cameo Classics employed digital technology.

Various techniques are often employed to " pad " TV movies with low budgets and underdeveloped scripts, such as music video-style montages, flashbacks, or repeated footage, and extended periods of dramatic slow motion footage ( sometimes taken to ridiculous extremes as in the USA Network thriller Wheels of Terror ).

Modern klezmer instrumentation is more commonly influenced by the instruments of the 19th century military bands than the earlier orchestras. The orchestration employed by Joel Rubin — one of the most experienced and knowledgeable contemporary klezmer musicians — represents a historically justified link with that of contemporary ethnic music ensembles of Romania and Hungary.