Composition 102: The 1970’s 27 March 2008 Music in the 1970’s “The conventional wisdom is that Minimalism- an idiom of clear‚ non decorative lines‚ repetition‚ and great tonal simplicity‚ which arose in the 1960’s and 70’s – was the last identifiable new style in music history. Actually‚ there has been an acceleration of new styles‚ many of them building on minimalist roots toward greater and world-music-inspired complexity.” (p 297) Many “radical” ideas of the nineteen sixties gained wider
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Computer Role in Entertainment & the Arts How will my leisure activities be affected by information technology? Information technology is being used for all kinds of entertainment‚ ranging from video games to telegambling. It is also being used in the arts‚ from painting to photography. Let’s consider just two examples‚ music and film. Computers‚ the internet‚ and the World Wide Web are standing the system of music recording and distribution on its head and in the process are changing the
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1824: Peter Roget presented his paper ’The persistence of vision with regard to moving objects’ to the British Royal Society. 1831: Dr. Joseph Antoine Plateau (a Belgian scientist) and Dr. Simon Rittrer constructed a machine called a phenakitstoscope. This machine produced an illusion of movement by allowing a viewer to gaze at a rotating disk containing small windows; behind the windows was another disk containing a sequence of images. When the disks were rotated at the correct speed‚ the synchronization
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ALLAMA IQBAL OPEN UNIVERSITY‚ ISLAMABAD (Department of Computer Science) WARNING 1. PLAGIARISM OR HIRING OF GHOST WRITER(S) FOR SOLVING THE ASSIGNMENT(S) WILL DEBAR THE STUDENT FROM AWARD OF DEGREE/CERTIFICATE‚ IF FOUND AT ANY STAGE. 2. SUBMITTING ASSIGNMENTS BORROWED OR STOLEN FROM OTHER(S) AS ONE’S OWN WILL BE PENALIZED AS DEFINED IN “AIOU PLAGIARISM POLICY”. Course: Basics of ICT (1431) Semester: Spring‚ 2013 Level: B.A Total Marks: 100 ASSIGNMENT No. 1 Note: All questions carry
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Form Sign Out Bottom of Form Home Classroom Exams/Assignments Grades Help Exam #2 Time Limit 50 minutes Starting Time 7:40 pm Arizona time Top of Form 1 Tom Scott plays the ___________ during this solo section. trumpet soprano sax synthesizer electric guitar trombone 2 __________ opens the George Harrison album‚ and has medium tempo and almost dance-like groove‚ featuring Pop-oriented lyrics and Eric Clapton’s guitar on the intro. "Ding Dong‚ Ding Dong" "Crackerbox Palace"
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Unity and VarietyReNoAdmin 2013-07-19T20:09:08Unity and Variety The Concepts of Unity and VarietyLet’s begin by listening to two fundamental concepts that make a piece of music "work"—the concepts of unity and variety. Most people like hearing sounds that they find pleasing‚ memorable‚ and familiar. Within a given composition‚ the feeling of familiarity—fostered by‚ among other things‚ reiterations of a music idea—lends a sense of unity to the music. Whereas unity satisfies the human need for sameness
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Definition of Terms ADAT - A digital 8-track tape deck manufactured by Alesis Corporation that is very popular in recording studios. ADC - (analog-to-digital converter) The hardware that converts an analog audio or video signal into a digital signal that you can process with a computer. Aliasing - Noise that occurs when a high frequency sound exceeds the Nyquist Frequency for a given sample rate. Most analog-to-digital converters prevent aliasing by filtering out sounds above the Nyquist
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DESIGN OF A SINGLE AXIS RATE TABLE TO MEASURE ANGULAR MOTION OF A MEMS-BASED GYROSCOPE Final Year Design Project Report Submitted by M. Usman Ehsan Saad Mirza Sarah Nusrat S. Nabeel Hassan Faculty of Electronic Engineering Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology. May 2009. Abstract The following report deals with the development of a rate table at GIKI for the purpose of testing MEMS-based gyroscopes being developed here. This report consists of the initial
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the piano in 1709 by Bartolomeo Cristofori. From that first major step came the introduction of electronic instruments short after the harnessing of electricity which came in the early 19th century. Soon after that came recording and then on to synthesizers and eventually digital recording. As computers were introduced to society‚ computer music was also brought into our vision. What we are seeing today in the music industry is the use of computers and the Internet to distribute music‚ whereas in
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Music Analysis – Asher Harris Contemporary Classical Music‚ a modern from of art music that began in the 1920s to the present day. This style will be able to show the audience for the annual Young composers’ symposium the characteristics‚ tone and style of Contemporary Classical Music. A Brief history At the turn of the century‚ music was characteristically late Romantic in style. Composers such as Gustav Mahler‚ Richard Strauss and Jean Sibelius were pushing the bounds of Post-Romantic Symphonic
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