[D] The table show above has two rows and thirteen columns. The first row is the alphabet A through M and the second row is N through Z. Activate a letter of the alphabet and you will be taken to a section of terms and definitions arranged in alphabetical order. The top selection will bring you back here and the return will take you to the place where you left off reading before you were "side tracked."
Aural, of or relating to the ear or to the sense of hearing. Also as with an aural examination in music.
The classicists refined and stabilized fundamental changes in musical style that distinguished Classical from Baroque, which were inspired by Rococo ideals and refined in particular by Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Christoph Willibald Gluck, and the young Ludwig van Beethoven.
Empathy. is the capacity to accurately perceive and respond to another person's thoughts and feelings. It is an active process in which you try to learn all you can about another person rather than having only a superficial awareness. We all have an innate capacity for empathy.
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) used as an attractive protocol for composers or performers and computer applications which produce sound for multimedia presentations or computer games. The MIDI data stream is a unidirectional asynchronous bit stream at 31.25 Kbytes/sec. with 10 bits transmitted per byte (a start bit, 8 data bits, and one stop bit).
A motet. is a polyphonic musical composition based on a text of a sacred nature and usually sung without accompaniment.
Pythagoras., who lived in the sixth century B.C., is credited with the discovery of the numerical ratios, which correspond to the intervals of the musical scale. Because music was viewed as number made audible, it seemed to offer a means of understanding the numerical basis of all physical phenomena. Legend has it that Pythagoras' experimentation with sounds involved both hammers of different masses and stretched strings of different lengths.
Gloacchino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868). An Italian composer who established his reputation with a series of 36 operas, all written in the space of 19 years. They included Tancredi (1813), The Barber of Seville (1816), and William Tell (1829).
Sound card with wavetable synthesis relies on recordings of actual instruments to produce sound. Wavetable synthesis produces more accurate sound, but is also more expensive.
Software sequencer It might be easier to understand how this process works if you understand a basic difference between a tape recorder and a sequencer. A tape recorder records only the finished product: sound. A sequencer records everything that goes into making the sound but not the sound itself. In other words, the sequencer records the performance information and then on playback "tells" a MIDI - equipped instrument what to do to reproduce the sound.
Seven Liberal Arts. - Grammar, astronomy, logic, geometry, arithmetic, rhetoric and music.
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