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	Introduction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Introduction (essay) - opening section of a piece of literature.
		Introduction (music) - opening section of a piece of music.
		As a title or description of a work, the introduction indicates the work covers the basics needed to reference or understand the more detailed treatments of the topic covered elsewhere.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Introduction (168 words)

	Introduction (music) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In music, the introduction is a passage or section which opens a movement or a separate piece.
		Introductions may be an ostinato that is used in the following music, an important chord or progression that establishes the tonality and groove for the following music, important but disguised or out of context motivic or thematic material (ibid).
		As such the introduction may be the first statement of primary or other important material, may be related to but different from the primary or other important material, or may bear little relation to any other material.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Introduction_(music) (153 words)

	Japanese Music - ninemsn Encarta
		Phrases of music are marked off by the sounds of a small horizontal two-headed drum (kakko), a large hanging drum (taiko), and a small gong (shoko), as well as by short melodies and arpeggios played on a 4-stringed lute (biwa) and a 13-stringed zither (koto).
		Gagaku music utilizes six modes, or scales, of Chinese origin, all derived from two basic pentatonic (five-note) scales: ryo, D E F-sharp A B (D), plus G and C-sharp as auxiliary notes; and ritsu, G A C D E (G), plus auxiliary B and F. The metres in gagaku music are basically duple.
		Theatrical music during the early Middle Ages was influenced by earlier Buddhist music and consisted of lute accompaniments to narrations called heikebiwa and of music for the No theatre.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761565446/Japanese_Music.html (641 words)

	ORB -- Introduction to Medieval Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Yet the music that does survive forms a sumptuous legacy, ranging from the sacred to the profane and from monophonic texture with a single melody sung alone to the richly polyphonic with several independent voices operating simultaneously.
		Most serious music in the Middle Ages, both sacred and secular, was song, involving words as an important element (not abstract musical design, as in the more recent European musical tradition.) Therefore aspects of text-music relations, such as liturgical function or poetic form, are an essential element in understanding the music.
		Hildegard's musical languages falls outside of the traditional modal practice of her day, which some have attributed to her lack of traditional musical training, but her literary efforts were sanctioned by the Pope, and the care with which her manuscripts were created reflects the respect she had within her community.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /~cyrus/ORB/orbmusic.htm (4787 words)

	Indian Melody : Introduction to Indian Music - An Article
		The Indian musical scale is said to have evolved from 3 notes to a scale of 7 primary notes, on the basis of 22 intervals.
		The raga forms the backbone of Indian music, and the laws laid down for the ragas have to be carefully observed to preserve and safeguard their integrity.
		One distinguishing characteristic of Indian Music is the relationship of each swara(note) with the Shadja(tonic) which determines the placing of the swaras and the expression of each swara in the saptak(scale).
	www.indianmelody.com /musicintro1.htm (3034 words)

	Introduction to Mariachi Music
		Mariachi music is one of the few styles of indigenous music that serves both a utilitarian and an entertainment function.
		Music is used only when an arrangement is new or when the band is accompanied by a solo artist.
		The performance of mariachi music also requires that the students perform a variety of song forms (the cancion ranchera, bolero, son, and the huapango) as well as perform on instruments, sing solo songs, and sing in a chorus.
	www.teachervision.fen.com /mexico/music/6757.html?detoured=1 (1326 words)

	An Introduction to Indian classical music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Indian classical music is defined by two basic elements : it must follow a classical mode, the raga, and a specific rhythm or tal.
		A music which follows the characteristics of this tradition is called classical - in opposition to Western classical music, where classical means belonging to a period of time (approximatively from 16th to 17th century).
		Carnatic music is nearly totally unified and the different schools are based on the same ragas (about 300 different ragas), same solo instruments, mainly the veena, flute, violin and same rhythm instrument, the mridangam and the ghatam.
	makar-records.com /siteus/intro01.html (547 words)

	Introduction to Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The prerequisite for this course is C1123 or F1123 Masterpieces of Western Music or BC 1001x or 1002y Introduction to Music, or equivalent.
		The prerequisite for this course is C1123 or F1123 Masterpieces of Western Music or BC 1001x or 1002y Introduction to Music, or equivalent and permission of the instructor.
		A survey of instrumental chamber music from the mid-18th century to the present, considered both as a social activity and as a means of artistic expression with well defined genres, forms, and aesthetic expectations.
	www.music.columbia.edu /undergraduate/courses/introductory.html (848 words)

	Indian Melody : Hindustani Classical Music - An Introduction
		The Hindustani music's counterpart of the gamakams in Carnatic music are the meends.
		The Hindustani music that developed during the Moghul (15th and 16th Centuries, A.D.) is based on the rich Indian tradition and its interaction with Moghul influences.
		The pakhavaj is similar to the mridangam in Carnatic music and it predates the tabla.
	www.indianmelody.com /hindintro.htm (1023 words)

	The Piano Education Page - Review of Introduction to Classical Music
		It is a wonderful musical dictionary which goes one step beyond the norm in that one can not only read in detail about the subject matter he is interested in, but can also listen to it.
		Introduction to Classical Music is a great starter for those interested in learning more about classical music, composers, and their times.
		Introduction to Classical Music is a must-have for those who want not only to learn about piano, but about the composers and history of music.
	pianoeducation.org /pnointrr.html (664 words)

	Performance Standards for Music: Grades PreK–12 - Introduction
		Because music is sometimes not seen as a basic discipline, music educators may have to do an even better job of assessment than their colleagues in math, science, and history in order to preserve and enhance music's foothold in the curriculum.
		Because there are no widely used standardized tests in music, as there are in most other basic disciplines, music educators lack a solid and uniform basis for making reliable, valid, and fair assessments of student achievement that are consistent from one setting to another and from one time to another.
		Although assessment of music learning can best be carried out by qualified music teachers, it is important that students, parents, and the public be provided with sufficient information and help that they too can make judgments about the extent to which music learning is taking place in their schools.
	www.menc.org /publication/books/performance_standards/intro.html (3542 words)

	Introduction to Bagpipe Music
		Bagpipe music is enough different from most standard western music that even trained musicians generally fail to fully appreciate it.
		Soloists often play slightly more difficult music and arrangements than bands, and since tuning and fingering on a single set of bagpipes is a lot easier than on a dozen, they tend to have a more refined sound.
		Though it is the traditional music of the bagpipe, you have probably never heard a piobaireachd before.
	www.mcnabbs.org /andrew/comments/pipemusic (1804 words)

	Middle Eastern Music: A Very Brief Introduction
		Music in general is a very subtle, very complex subject, and it's difficult to render a discussion of it into writing.
		Classical music, for the most part, was the enduring music with a level of musicality and intricacy that could strike a chord (so to speak) with serious music lovers.
		Pop music is a recent offshoot of modern music, written to appeal in particular to the younger generation.
	www.shira.net /musicintro.htm (3815 words)

	Dolmetsch Online - Music Theory Introduction
		And the beauty of music is that it is both the source of creation and the means of absorbing it.
		The theory of music is a description of the way we think about, or believe we should think about, music and about its notation, structure and performance.
		For example, musical harmony is the essence of western music, but too few theory methods consider alternative harmonic languages and non-traditional musical forms.
	www.dolmetsch.com /introduction.htm (1144 words)

	Introduction to the Music of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
		Introduction to the Music of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
		The fiddle is at the forefront of Cape Breton music.
		In sharp contrast to Irish music, Cape Breton music is primarily a solo or duet activity.
	www.sfcelticmusic.com /Capebret/cbmintro.htm (2469 words)

	Introduction to Raï Music of Algeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Other sources, however, mention elements which are associated with the raï music of today, such as the "repetitive" musical form, improper forms of expression, women entertaining men, and games of competition, indicating that raï as a genre goes much further back in history.
		Wahrani (Oran music) is associated with the music developed in the city centers of Orania, mainly Oran, from the mid-1930s through the flourishing period of the 1950s.
		Another important musician was Mohammed Maghni, one of the few in raï to have formal musical traïning and practical experience as a keyboard player in the pop group the Students.
	link.lanic.utexas.edu /menic/rai (1405 words)

	Musical Nirvana - Introduction to Indian Classical Music
		Though a musicians such as Ravi Shankar can scarcely be described as a household name in the West, he is unquestionably one of the most well-known non- Western musicians in the West, and Indian classical music can fairly be described as having carved a niche for itself in the world of concert music.
		Even though Indian music is far from mainstream, it has established a niche in the genre of "world" music in the west.
		Collaboration between Indian and Western musicians, creating music incorporating elements of both cultures gave raise to a new genre of music, the Fasion music.
	www.musicalnirvana.com /introduction/post_independence2.html (1128 words)

	Gert-Matthias Wegner: Introduction to Kathmandu University Department of Music
		The musical traditions of Nepal are as diverse as the various ethnic groups of the country.
		The most complex musical culture in the Himalayas is that of the Newars in the Kathmandu valley, which in the course of the past 2000 years has absorbed mostly Indian influences in shaping a unique musical tradition.
		The Kathmandu University Department of Music is an institution dedicated to the preservation and continuation of the rich traditional heritage of Nepalese music.
	www.asianart.com /articles/music (760 words)

	A Hotlist on Music Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Creating Music - This is a wonderful site for children where they can really be creative and make their own music using different instruments, rhythms and melodies.
		Music Lesson Plans & Resources - This site has an incredible amount of lesson plans and resources available for the teacher, on a wide variety of topics.
		Music Education Resource Directory - This site has articles, a message board and calendar of events for music teachers of all kinds.
	www.kn.pacbell.com /wired/fil/pages/listmusicka2.html (664 words)

	Music 1: Introduction to Music: Concert List
		Since the list is provided primarily for De Anza College music students, it may not be current when classes are not in session - for example, during winter, spring, and summer breaks.
		Music by Mark Alburget, Alexis Alrich, John Beeman, Michael Cooke, others.
		Note to Dan Mitchell's De Anza College Music 1 students: you may attend this concert for your concert report OR you may attend it for extra credit - but you may not count it for both.
	faculty.deanza.edu /mitchell/music1/concertlist (1064 words)

	Music & Money: Introduction
		This overview article on the many sources of music and lyric income has been made available by ASCAP as a service to songwriters and publishers, regardless of affiliation.
		A songwriter makes money when a CD or cassette containing one of his or her songs is sold, when the songs are played on the radio, in a TV show, or performed in a concert hall or broadcast in a foreign country.
		Royalties can also be generated from the sale of sheet music or from the use of a song in a commercial or a motion picture.
	www.ascap.com /musicbiz/money-intro.html (204 words)

	Music 339: Introduction to Computer Music
		Music 339 is an introductory course in music technology.
		There are no "wrong" aesthetics but you should question all musical assumptions (especially style-based) and try to personalize your approach to the composition.
		The main goal is to make good music, something you might like to program on a concert in the recital hall.
	www.people.virginia.edu /~cmb4f/339.html (762 words)

	Introduction to Transcribing Music
		The effort involved in transcribing music from recordings varies enormously depending on the complexity of the music, how good you ear is and how detailed you want your transcription to be.
		By the way, "the dots" is an abbreviation meaning the written-out music, because of the visual appearance of written music as dots on a stave.
		I certainly agree that transcribing is good for you but if you are at all active musically then there will always be things you want to play for which you can't get the dots, so I think you should save your transcribing time and energy for those.
	www.seventhstring.com /resources/howtotranscribe.html (2747 words)

	Apostate Café: Introduction to Classical Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Soundtracks to films about composers or classical music are good bets, because they are recorded with excellent quality, and are geared for people who don't like classical music.
		Unless it is really weird music, anything written after 1850 is considered by the Classical Music Snobs to be trash, so be aware when you mention modern composers in cultured company.
		For vocal music, John Rutter and the Cambridge singers are top-notch.
	www.apostate.com /music/classical.html (1391 words)

	Music 4C Introduction
		Music 4C is a software synthesis program written by Scot Aurenz at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1985; it has been considerably updated since that time.
		Whereas 4BF was written entirely in Fortran and employs instrument definitions written in Fortran, M4C is written entirely in C for the Unix environment and employs instrument definitions written in the C language.
		In Music 4C, as in Music 4BF, the unit generators correspond to subroutine functions, and the connections between them correspond to parameters which are passed.
	ems.music.uiuc.edu /beaucham/software/m4c/m4c_intro_html/M4C_intro.html (9456 words)

	Adoremus Hymnal Introduction
		The section on sacred music, De musica sacra, was the culmination of more than a century of theological reflection on liturgical music.1 But the important insights and principles these studies produced have never been fully realized in the Church's liturgical music.
		According to the Second Vatican Council, sacred music, as a combination of sacred melody and words, "forms a necessary or integral part (pars integrans) of the solmen liturgy" and "is to be considred the more holy in proportion as it is connected to the liturgical action" (SC §112).
		To assure that authentic liturgical music would be an integral part of the Mass, Sacrosanctum concilium emphasized that Gregorian chant is "specifically suited to the Roman liturgy", and "should be given pride of place in liturgical services" (SC §116).
	www.adoremus.org /HymnIntro.htm (1010 words)

	Music 1: Introduction to Music: Sample Concert Report
		The intensity and tempo of the music increase in the third movement, making the music very lively.
		Suddenly, without warning, the music becomes solemn and very heavy; funeral march music would be a good description for it.
		In one place the music stops and it begins again with loud drums, brass, and the crashing of cymbals.
	faculty.deanza.edu /mitchell/music1/report/sample (1102 words)

	Werner Icking Music Archive: Introduction
		You are not allowed to distribute digital copies of these editions to other web archives, either in the existing format or any other derived format without the explicit consent of the Icking Archive editors.
		The right to print the music does not automatically imply the right for public performance; that right is regulated by applicable copyright legislation.
		Contributors are encouraged to upload their source files used for typesetting along with the final score in which case the source will be made available to web guests, but that is definitely not a requirement for contributing to the archive.
	icking-music-archive.org /scores/Introduction.html (612 words)

	Syllabus: INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC
		Lecture 5 The Middle Ages I: Introduction to the period; plainchant and polyphony; performance styles; the beginnings of notation.
		Lecture 7 The Renaissance I: Introduction to the style; Josquin and Ockeghem; sacred and secular music; notes on the Renaissance in America and Africa.
		Lecture 13 Classical Music I: Introduction to the style and period; the word "classical" and its many meanings; style galant and empfindsamkeit.
	www.omnidisc.com /MUSIC/Syllabus.html (347 words)

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