MUSIC
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MUSIC
Music is an art form whose medium is sound. Its common elements
are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its
associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics,
and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture.
In its most general form the activities describing music as an
art form include the production of works of music, the criticism
of music, the study of the history of music, and the aesthetic
dissemination of music.
The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition
of music vary according to culture and social context. Music
ranges from strictly organized compositions (and their recreation
in performance), through improvisational music to aleatoric forms.
Music can be divided into genres and subgenres, although the dividing
lines and relationships between music genres are often subtle,
sometimes open to personal interpretation, and occasionally
controversial. Within the arts, music may be classified as a performing
art, a fine art, and auditory art. It may also be divided among art
music and folk music. There is also a strong connection between music
and mathematics. Music may be played and heard live, may be part of a
dramatic work or film, or may be recorded.
Music
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music
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MUSICOLOGY
Musicology, meaning "study of-") is the scholarly analysis and
research-focused study of music, a part of humanities. A person
who studies music is a musicologist.
Musicology also has two central, practically oriented subdisciplines
with no parent discipline: performance practice and research (sometimes
viewed as a form of artistic research), and the theory, analysis and
composition of music. The disciplinary neighbors of musicology address
other forms of art, performance, ritual and communication, including
the history and theory of the visual and plastic arts and of architecture;
linguistics, literature and theater; religion and theology; and sport.
Musical knowledge and know-how are applied in medicine, education and music
therapy, which may be regarded as the parent disciplines of applied
musicology.
Traditionally, historical musicology has been the most prominent
ubdiscipline of musicology. Today, historical musicology is one of
several large subdisciplines. Historical musicology, ethnomusicology,
and systematic musicology are approximately equal in size - if numbers
of active participants at international conferences is any guide.
Systematic musicology includes music acoustics, the science and technology
of acoustical musical instruments, physiology, psychology, sociology,
philosophy and computing. Cognitive musicology is the set of phenomena
surrounding the computational modeling of music.
Musicology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musicology
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MUSIC
GENRE
A music genre is a conventional category that identifies pieces
of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions.
It is to be distinguished from musical form and musical style,
although in practice these terms are sometimes used interchangeably.
Music can be divided into different genres in many different ways.
The artistic nature of music means that these classifications are
often subjective and controversial, and some genres may overlap.
There are even varying academic definitions of the term genre itself.
Music genre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_genre
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MUSIC
RELATED
TOPICS
List of online music databases
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_music_databases
Music and emotion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_and_emotion
Music and mathematics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_and_mathematics
Music education
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_education
Musical scale
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_scale
Musical temperament
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_temperament
Musical tuning
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_tuning
Organology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organology
Prehistoric music
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_music
Psychoanalysis and music
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoanalysis_and_music
Set theory (music)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_theory_(music)
Sociomusicology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociomusicology
Tonality
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonality
World music
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_music
American Musicological Society
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Musicological_Society
Virtual Library of Musicology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Library_of_Musicology
List of musicology topics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_musicology_topics
Appropriation (music)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriation_(music)
Choreomusicology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choreomusicology
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MUSIC
MUSICOLOGY
LINKS
All Music
http://www.allmusic.com/
The American Musicological Society
http://www.ams-net.org/
BBC Blast Music
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blast/music/
Billboard
http://www.billboard.com/
Dolmetsch free online music dictionary
http://dolmetsch.com/musictheorydefs.htm
Ear Training and Music Theory
http://www.musicstudy.com/
Echo
http://www.echo.ucla.edu/
Google Play
http://play.google.com/music/listen
International Association for the Study of Popular Music IASPM
http://www.iaspm.net/
Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies JIMS
http://www.musicstudies.org/
The Journal of Music and Meaning JMM
http://www.musicandmeaning.net/index.php
Music
http://www.theguardian.com/music
Music
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/music.aspx
Musical Terms Glossary of music terms from Naxos
http://www.naxos.com/education/glossary.asp
Music Theory Online
http://mto.societymusictheory.org/
Outreach Ethnomusicology
http://www.o-em.org/
The Society for American Music
http://www.american-music.org/
Society for Ethnomusicology
http://webdb.iu.edu/sem/scripts/home.cfm
The Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary
http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/
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Encyclopedia of Popular Music
http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/public/book/omo_epm
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
http://alexanderstreet.com/products/garland-encyclopedia-world-music-online
The Music-Web Music Encyclopedia
http://www.music-web.org/
Music Brainz!
http://musicbrainz.org/
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