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	Hymns
		One characteristic that is self-evident is the length of Montfort’s hymns.
		These hymns are a monument also to the great saint who wrote them; they testify to his enthusiastic faith, his mystical, joyful prayer, his incredible love for the "ordinary" people, most especially for the poor.
		He knew, as his poetry attests, the great unity of God’s creation; he believed that to exist, to pray, to evangelize, and to compose poetry are all—for the person living baptismal life—to praise God Alone.
	www.ewtn.com /library/Montfort/Handbook/Hymns.htm (6000 words)

	Elements Of Jazz: Fundamentals: Melody
		Melody in jazz is often largely improvised, and it tends to be more complex than melody in most other popular music.
		This phrase further emphasizes the importance of the role of melody in jazz: the improvisation is called a solo even though other musicians may be accompanying the soloist.
		While melody may serve a somewhat different function in jazz than in other forms of music, and the melodies themselves may differ from most pop and classical melodies, it is important to realize that melody - both composed and improvised - is still an integral part of jazz.
	www.outsideshore.com /school/music/almanac/html/Elements_Of_Jazz/Fundamentals/Melody.htm (1214 words)

	Folk Music - MSN Encarta
		Even so, the variety of folk music is so great that the statements made here can only outline characteristics rather than define the features of folk music.
		The characteristics of folk music, popular music, and classical music often overlap, and the boundaries between these categories can become blurred.
		Or, in the interior of a musical line, the second of two contrasting bits of melody may be forgotten and replaced by a repetition of the first.
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Plain Chant
		As some of the Gregorian melodies did not well fit in with this theoretic system, exhibiting, if ranged according to the mode theory, other chromatic notes, such as e flat, f sharp, and a lower B flat, some theorists declared them to be wrong, and advocated their emendation.
		Melodies of the fourth mode having a constant b flat fall in badly with the theoretic conception of a fourth mode having b natural as its normal note, and some antiphon melodies of that mode, although they use no b flat but have a as their highest note, e.
		The general expression of the Gregorian melodies is in an eminent degree that of liturgical prayer.
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	Pioneering Over Four Epochs (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Of great benefit, too, in this the longest of my pieces of writing, has been the many disciplines of the social sciences and humanities and a continued dialogue and even controversial exchange with contemporaries, a controversy that must be characterized by an etiquette of expression and a judicious exercise of the written and spoken word.
		Melody is crucial to most music and it is crucial here if the reader is to find pleasure in reading this work.
		With David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, and with Edward Gibbon, I have come to regard my life and, indeed, all of history, "as a drama of human passion." For human passion is many things, some associated with sexual love and others with strong emotion and belief.
	thinkers.net /creative/Pioneering_Over_Four_Epochs.html (0 words)

	Country Music - MSN Encarta
		In country, the primary purpose of the musical elements of harmony, melody, and rhythm is to showcase the lyrics without distracting from them.
		Most country music is written in ¹ time (four beats to a measure), with the first and third beats receiving emphasis.
		Melodies are typically just as basic as the rhythm.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761558215/Country_Music.html (1161 words)

	MUSIC, WESTERN,
		The chant melodies that developed in Rome were inventoried and assigned specific places in church ceremonies during the period from the 5th to the 7th century.
		This borrowed melody was known as the cantus firmus (Lat., “fixed melody”).
		The unharmonized melodies that had been sung in the 13th century by the troubadours and trouvères were expanded by 14th-century composers into two-and three-voice pieces called chansons (Fr., “songs”).
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?vendorId=FWNE.fw..mu172400.a#FWNE.fw..mu172400.a (6598 words)

	Ayahuasca: The Concept of Plants as Teachers among four Mestizo Shamans of Northeastern Peru - Luna
		Four shamans were questioned about the nature and identity of these magic plants, what are the dietary prescriptions to be followed, how the transmission of shamanic power takes place, the nature of their helping spirits, and the function of the magic melodies or icaros given to them by the plant teachers.
		There is great prestige and power associated with the use of native languages and the shamans speak to their spirits in these languages.
		They are songs or whistled melodies used by the shaman during the ritual and other shamanic practices, and through which he increases the potency of the healing capacities of ayahuasca, tobacco or any other medicinal plant.
	www.biopark.org /peru/luna-icaros.html (2610 words)

	Stockhausen Sirius
		The entrances of the four characters are striking, and the evocation and breath of drama in their individual presentations is phenomenal.
		However, a strong overall impression is created of great contrast between the warm and up-close melodious playing of the bass clarinet, and the machine-like and distant sounding electronic music, and in addition to this, of a great contrast in time layers (apparent speed of musical motion), with the electronic music moving so fast.
		Simultaneously, in a sophisticated manner, this melody appears to be articulated in all its original elements by the sum of interactions of the melodic lines from all the four soloists, of which the line sung by the bass is one component of course.
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	facts JPN-music (Site not responding. Last check: )
		One of the characteristic features of Japanese culture is the way in which the cultural elements of a variety of lands exist side by side in harmony, exerting a constant influence on the existing culture and thus producing a new culture as a result.
		The great majority of folk songs sung today were formed in the Edo Period and after.
		Melodies based on those pentatonic scales are often characterized by trills and grace notes which are commonly seen in traditional folk songs and the shamisen music of earlier times.
	asnic.utexas.edu /asnic/countries/japan/japmusic.html (0 words)

	Elements Of Jazz: Fundamentals: Harmony
		Not only are new melodies improvised over the original harmony, but the accompaniment played by the other musicians is usually improvised based on the original chord progression as well.
		Rather than using chords of three or four notes, chords used by jazz musicians often contain five or six different notes, some of which may be considered dissonant at first by ears accustomed to pop or classical music.
		As is the case with melody, it is not always possible characterize a particular chord progression as being jazz harmony.
	www.outsideshore.com /school/music/almanac/html/Elements_Of_Jazz/Fundamentals/Harmony.htm (1300 words)

	TORBAN > ITS MUSIC
		The melodies are formulaic, use ornamentation and a slight slowing of the tempo to delay the movement from note to note, particularly when in the Western major mode and when sounding the first degree.
		Melodies often consist of microtonal descending lines, with a glissando at the end of the stanza; they are similar to shepherds’ tunes played on the sopilka or drymba.
		A characteristic mode of the Hutsulys has a lowered third and sharpened fourth and seventh degrees, and is known as the ‘Hutsuly mode’ Hutsuly vocal music may also be pentatonic.
	polyhymnion.org /torban/torban4.html (3026 words)

	Meaningfulness in Bach's Cyclical Works
		Whereas set characteristics of the Well-Tempered Clavier constitute a referential device allowing one to locate preludes and fugues quickly, in most instances such utilitarian intentionalities, like the alphabetics of a dictionary, "mean" nothing.
		Four duets for use during communion: It is possible that the four duets allude to the four application precepts with which Luther prefaces his Catechism.
		Returning to the circular characteristics of the set (Figure 5b), notice that the pattern disruption that defines the canons of the Triunitas as belonging together also defines the remaining six as belonging apart.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~tas3/intentional.html (7880 words)

	Great pianists besides the "Top 10"
		Yet another characteristic of his playing, though not a detrimental one, is that his trills are often rather slow.
		He was a great artist who drew on his vast resources to re-create the music with wit, boldness and individuality.
		I have his Hammerklavier disc, and I think his characteristic articulation in the fugue movement is fantastic, though the first movement is too slow and lacks power, and in the slow movement he sounds mechanical.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/Strasse/8618/nontop10.html (0 words)

	ORB -- Introduction to Medieval Music
		Chant melodies range from a simple recitational style involving a single pitch (perhaps with some inflections to provide punctuation), through the straightforward chants which any member of the choir could sing, to the extremely elaborate soloistic chants.
		Melodies are also classified by how many notes there are per syllable: syllabic melodies have one note per syllable; neumatic melodies generally have two to five notes per syllable; and melismatic melodies have elaborate runs of six or more notes decorating several syllables over the course of the piece.
		She wrote antiphons (loosely poetic texts accompanied by exuberant, rhapsodic melodies) and sequences, though the repetitive structures of Notker's sequences can be hard to discern amidst the ornamentation of her associative melodic lines, and some sequences lack Notker's couplet structure altogether.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /~cyrus/ORB/orbmusic.htm (0 words)

	Opaque Melodies That Would Bug Most People - A Short History of Dislocation in Six Tracks
		One of the great, unsung precursors of non-linear editing and compositing is the novelist Vladimir Nabokov.
		Zorn described Stalling's music as a “constantly changing kaleidoscope of styles, forms, melodies, quotations”, adding that his music, when listened to in isolation from the image, constantly throws you off balance, “yet there is something strangely familiar about it all” (Zorn, 1988) (dislocation, once again, as both dis-inter and integration).
		This dialectic of disintegration and integration, dislocation as the creation of new locations, draws attention to the recombinant nature of a poetics apposite to the age of decentred networks and telesthesia.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/01/18/dislocation.html (0 words)

	Krishna with Rukmani and Satyabhama
		Metaphorically, he is, of course, the supreme being, the great soul (param-atma), into which the individual soul (atma) represented by the gopis, will merge, drawn by the enchanting music of his flute.
		He is thus the great ocean into which all rivers must eventually lose their identities.
		While the two principal ones hold the flute to his lips, coaxing divine melodies out of it, the upper arms support a wheel (chakra) on the right and the sacred conch on the left.
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	PMC Polish Dance Sites: Polonaise
		The polonaise is usually danced in costumes of the Polish nobility of the 17th century (the kontusz jackets); some groups present their polonaises in costumes from the period of the Duchy of Warsaw (1811-1814) established by Napoleon before his defeat in 1815 (empire dresses, cavalry uniforms).
		This category includes the oldest Polish folk melody, "Oj, chmielu, chmielu" (hops dance) which was sung and danced during the ceremony of the "capping of the bride" at the folk wedding.
		There are two characteristic rhythmic patterns that allow one to recognize the polonaise: (1) the succession of one eighth-note, two sixteenths and four eighth-notes at the opening of the dance (depicted above), and (2) the cadential formula of four sixteenths followed by two quarternotes (depicted below).
	www.usc.edu /dept/polish_music/dance/polonaise.html (1965 words)

	U B U W E B :: The Aesthetics of Noise
		The great innovator, however, was undoubtedly Jimi Hendrix, who constructed a whole catalogue of noise effects, using them with virtuosity in his blues-inspired rock compositions.
		A characteristic trait is what I shall call "the maelstrom of noise," in which the tune and rhythm break off into a whirl of noise, gradually intensifying tempo and volume, absorbing the listener into its ecstatic fl hole.
		Merzbow noise is linked with fear, conflict and aggression as in rock music, but defying any melodies, the pure noise does not incite the listener to ecstatic bliss, but remains hard and somewhat conceptual to most of its audience.
	www.ubu.com /papers/noise.html#note_four (5150 words)

	Irish And Scottish Music On Guitar
		For melody playing, standard tuning is very versatile, and traditional tunes can be played in their standard keys without a capo.
		Traditional players sometimes vary melodies, but the variations tend to be more like what the tune might have sounded like if it had been created on a different day.
		Melodies can be in first position or high up the neck.
	www.danmozell.com /guitart.htm (1451 words)

	SchoolNotes.com - Notes Page
		Great Music Theory Site..learn the staff, note names, chords...
		Branches of the Cranston library are a great source of audio and video recordings of classical music.
		Biographies of famous musicians and great composers and their notable works classified by era.
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	Four Tet
		It can be three harpsichords, a banjo and four drum kits, and that can make sense.' I was thinking about that and I got really interested in British folk music, and started buying loads of records and hearing people like Pentangle and Fotheringay and Fairport Convention.
		This deliberate reversal of roles is one of the characteristic features of Rounds: "You can't over-complicate every single sound in the track — you have to decide which things are going to ride through the track in a simple way, and which ones the detail is going to be in.
		Great care has been taken to ensure accuracy in the preparation of this article but neither Sound On Sound Limited nor the publishers can be held responsible for its contents.
	www.soundonsound.com /sos/Jul03/articles/fourtet.asp (3864 words)

	MPR: Song Catcher Frances Densmore
		Concerning a feeling for a tonic, or keynote, it may be of interest to state that, in a series of 340 Chippewa songs which have been fully analyzed, it was found that 67 per cent ended on a tone which, by the test of the ear, was a satisfactory keynote.
		In some instances the characteristic proved to be widespread, while in others it was a peculiarity of too small a number to be made a general basis of analysis.
		In many instances these rhythmic units were taken apart and "worked over" in much the manner of a composer of the white race, several repetitions of the song showing that this rhythmic form was clear in the mind of the singer.
	news.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/199702/01_smiths_densmore/docs/musicessay.shtml (4695 words)

	Travers Music: Polish music publishers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Both the text and the melody were probably written by one unknow but talented author.
		The melodies of many Polish liturgical songs were either borrowed from or commonly known in Europe, however, their Latin texts and, in some cases, melodies were written locally.
		As early as the first half of the 14th century, a composition for four voices in the Parisian school (Notre Dame) fashion appeared in the convent of the St Clare Order nuns in Stary Sacz.
	www.travers-music.com /index.php?page=muzyka&lang=eng (0 words)

	BouquetTHE PERCY FAITH STRINGS IN STEREO
		Also, the continuous movement of string sections is a Faith trademark, perfected in this album by dividing the orchestra into four major sections of two banks of violins, one section of low strings, and one section of piano, harp, guitar and vibraphone.
		The violin sections are, in turn, divided into two parts, and melodies seem to grow continuously across the orchestra.
		The contrast of ensemble and soloist is another Faith characteristic, and solos by George Ockner in Laura and Intermezzo provide another color.
	www.percyfaithpages.org /bouquet_notes.htm (656 words)

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		Before this time, composers often created settings based on one of the five text of the Mass ordinary, the chants that are included in all celebrations of the mass regardless of the time of year, that were polyphonic (musical settings containing simultaneous independent melodies).
		Since the fourteenth century, the five movements of the mass ordinary have been regarded as an inseparable entity, and composers referred to writing settings of all five sections as “composing a Mass.” The Settings of the Mass contain some of the greatest choral music ever written.
		In this recording, the four voice parts are sung by male soloists as would have been appropriate in a fourteenth-century church setting.
	www.austincc.edu /mwoodruf/music/Machaut.htm (463 words)

	Chordata Characteristic (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Characteristics of common wasps and bees - While easily confusable at a distance or without close observation, there are many different characteristics of bees and wasps which can be used to identify them.
		Four Great Characteristic Melodies - Four Great Characteristic Melodies (åå¤§å£°è” pinyin: SÃ¬dÃ ShÄ“ngqiÄng) in Chinese opera are Bangziqiang, Huangpiqiang, Kunqiang and Gaoqiang.
		Characteristics are used in SAP as attributes, e.g.
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	March of the Penguins Warner Independent Pictures -- Official Site
		Another surprising characteristic of the emperor penguin, is its capacity for vocal identification and recognition.
		The eerie, spare piano melodies of "Confessions..." are miles away from the lush 85 piece orchestral chases of "Hollywood Homicide," however diversity has been one of the hallmarks of what is becoming an exceptional career.
		Despite the unthinkable brouhaha of the mating songs, each penguin has recorded with great precision the "vocal signature" of his or her partner, and will be able to recognize this signature among thousands.
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