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	Independent Artist Music News, Reviews, and Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It was during this decade that the first indie charts were compiled in the United States and in the United Kingdom; whether or not appearing on these lists was considered a sell-out depended on who you talked to.
		The big difference in the 1980s was that by the end of the decade, one type of music had slipped into the mainstream, while the other had not.
		Perhaps this is where fans of indie music should take a hard look at their criteria for bands; if music was not worth being listened to by a lot of people, it simply should not exist.
	www.indieupdate.com (2345 words)

	History of music - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Early music is a general term used to describe music in the European classical tradition from after the fall of the Roman Empire, in 476 CE, until the end of the Baroque era in the middle of the 18th century.
		Music in the generation after Josquin explored increasing complexity of counterpoint; possibly the most extreme expression of this tendency is in the music of Nicolas Gombert, whose contrapuntal complexities influenced early instrumental music, such as the canzona and the ricercar, ultimately culminating in Baroque fugal forms.
		Music after 1600, beginning with the tonal music of the Baroque era, is often referred to as belonging to the common practice period.
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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Music of the United Kingdom
		Also under the sovereignty of the United Kingdom, though not part of the United Kingdom itself, are the Crown Dependencies of the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man and a number of Overseas Territories.
		The United Kingdom is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations (successor organisation to the former Empire), the European Union and NATO.
		The United Kingdom is one of three countries which have a profitable recorded music industry, based mostly on popular music, the others being the United States and Sweden.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Music_of_the_United_Kingdom/External_links (4112 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 1980s
		Particularly in the United Kingdom, this decade is often referred to as "the Me decade" or "the Greed decade", reflecting the economic and social climate of the period.
		The 1980s is also generally considered to be the transition between the industrial and information ages, seeing rapid developments in numerous sectors of technology which have defined the modern consumer world.
		Children born in the 1980s are likely to have an extremely prominent position in world business and government affairs from the 2020s all the way through to the 2050s due to their immense population, potential voting powers, relatively good health, and high life expectancy.
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	Rock Music - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		Rock and roll was a combination of the R&B (rhythm-and-blues music) style known as jump blues, the gospel-influenced vocal-group style known as doo wop, the piano-blues style known as boogie-woogie (or barrelhouse), and the country-music style known as honky tonk.
		Another important center of rock music in the 1960s was Los Angeles, where film student Jim Morrison formed the group the Doors and guitarist and composer Frank Zappa developed a unique blend of risqué humor and complex jazz-influenced compositional forms with his group the Mothers of Invention.
		However, rock music is no longer limited to an audience of teenagers, since many current listeners formed their musical tastes during the golden age of rock and roll.
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	United Kingdom - MSN Encarta
		Until the late 1980s the LEAs were responsible for the allocation of finance and pupils to the overwhelming majority of schools, for their financial management and maintenance, and for the provision of certain services, such as the purchase of books for school libraries.
		In the 16th century there was the emergence of a group of composers, in particular John Taverner, Thomas Tallis, and William Byrd, who produced memorable church music and laid the foundations of one of the strongest British musical traditions, choral music.
		In the late 20th century, Britain was an important source of popular music, in particular of the various manifestations of rock music, beginning with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in the 1960s.
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	European classical music Summary
		Classical music is a broad, somewhat imprecise term, referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of, European art, ecclesiastical and concert music, encompassing a broad period from roughly 1000 to the present day.
		The term classical music did not appear until the early 19th century, in an attempt to "canonize" the period from Bach to Beethoven as an era in music parallel to the golden age of sculpture, architecture and art of classical antiquity (from which no music has directly survived).
		Improvisation in classical music performance was far more common during the Baroque era than in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and recently the performance of such music by modern classical musicians has been enriched by a revival of the old improvisational practices.
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	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		She was baptised in the Music Room of Buckingham Palace by Cosmo Lang, the then Archbishop of York and her godparents were King George and Queen Mary, the Princess Royal, the Duke of Connaught, the Earl of Strathmore and Lady Elphinstone.
		The Queen, or her Governors-General in the realms outside the United Kingdom, also gives a speech at the annual State Opening of Parliament, outlining the government's legislative agenda for the year, but the speech is written by ministers.
		In the United Kingdom, her official title is Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Elizabeth_II_of_the_United_Kingdom (6156 words)

	Music genre at AllExperts
		Gospel is a musical genre characterised by dominant vocals (often with strong use of harmony) referencing lyrics of a religious nature, particularly Christian.
		Melodic music is a term that covers various genres of non-classical music which are primarily characterised by the dominance of a single strong melody line.
		Melodic music is found in all parts of the world, overlapping many genres, and may be performed by a singer or orchestra, or a combination of the two.
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	ipedia.com: Music of Ireland Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ireland is internationally known for its folk music, which has remained a vibrant tradition throughout the 20th century, when many traditional forms worldwide lost popularity to pop music.
		Music and lyrics are passed aurally/orally, and were rarely written down until recently (depending upon your definition of "recently", there are many examples of written music previous to the 1800's).
		A musical and dancing interval act starring Michael Flatley and Jean Butler was performed during the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest.
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	Music of the United Kingdom (1980s) at AllExperts
		In the early 1980s, the death of Sid Vicious (of the Sex Pistols) and the alleged selling-out of bands like The Clash and The Jam led to still-frequent cries that punk is dead.
		By the end the 1980s, a uniquely British spin on house music, known as "acid house" had emerged as a result of the underground party scene based around, amongst others, the so-called "Orbital" raves near the M25 motorway of London.
		Soul music developed in the United States in the 1960s when singers like Ben E. King and Sam Cooke created a secular version of gospel music that owed a debt to R&B. Though there were some British soul singers in the 60s and 70s, they found little success.
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	Rock Music - MSN Encarta
		Perhaps the most significant rock-music development of the 1980s was the rise of rap, a genre in which vocalists perform rhythmic speech, usually accompanied by music snippets, or samples, from prerecorded material or from music created by synthesizers.
		Although artists such as the Sugarhill Gang had national hits during the early 1980s, rap music did not enter the popular music mainstream until 1986, when rappers Run-DMC and the hard-rock band Aerosmith collaborated on a version of the song “Walk This Way,” creating a new audience for rap among white, suburban, middle-class rock fans.
		By the end of the 1980s, MTV had established a program dedicated solely to rap, and artists such as MC Hammer (Stanley Kirk Burrell) and the Beastie Boys had achieved multi-platinum record sales to broad interracial audiences.
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	Music of the United Kingdom (1980s) - Definition, explanation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		By the end the 1980s, a uniquely British spin on house music, known as "acid house" had emerged as a result of the underground party scene based around, amongst others, the so-called "Orbital" raves near the M25 motorway of London.
		In part as a reaction to the aggressive anti-rave policy of the government, during this time the music become harder and darker and eventually led to forms such as hardcore techno and, later in the decade, drum and bass.
		Soul music developed in the United States in the 1960s when singers like Ben E. King and Sam Cooke created a secular version of gospel music that owed a debt to R&B. Though there were some British soul singers in the 60s and 70s, they found little success.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/m/mu/music_of_the_united_kingdom__1980s_.php (1828 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Music of the United Kingdom
		Of all the regions of the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland (and its neighbour, the Republic of Ireland) has the most vibrant folk traditions.Traditional bands including instruments like fiddles have remained throughout the centuries even as analogues on Great Britain died out.
		In the 1980s, the spirit of punk rock fuelled a gaggle of new genres that took stylistic elements of punk and added new approaches and influences.
		The 1980s also saw tremendous diversification and modernisation of the sounds of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, especially bhangra, which fused traditional Punjabi music with the burgeoning house music scene.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Music_of_the_United_Kingdom (1491 words)

	A history of music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although I have omnivorous tastes in music, the music section of jahsonic.com mainly focuses on maligned genres of the late twentieth century pop canon: dance music, fl music, disco, reggae, dub, house music, early hip hop, gay music, electronic music and techno.
		Emerging in the early fifties, rock music was initially referred to as “rock 'n' roll.” After 1964 it was simply called “rock music.” The change in terminology indicates both a continuity with and a break from the earlier period; rock music was no longer just for dancing.
		Beginning with the contention that the disc jockey is "dance music's most important figure," Brewster and Broughton persuasively argue that the contemporary DJ is the epitome of the postmodern artist and that disc jockeys have long influenced the evolution of American musical tastes.
	www.jahsonic.com /music.html (2663 words)

	Music of Italy - WOI Encyclopedia Italia
		As typified by the operas of Verdi, it was music in which "...The vocal lines always dominate the tonal complex and are never overshadowed by the instrumental accompaniments..." Italian classical music had resisted the "German harmonic juggernaut"—that is, the dense harmonies of Wagner, Mahler and R.
		Italian music also had little in common with the French reaction to that German music—the impressionism of Debussy, for example, in which melodic development is largely abandoned for the creation of mood and atmosphere through the sounds of individual chords.
		The new music abandoned much of the historical, nationally developed schools of harmony and melody in favor of experimental music, atonality, Minimalism and electronic music, all of which employ features that have become common to European music in general and not Italy specifically.
	www.wheelsofitaly.com /wiki/index.php?title=Music_of_Italy&redirect=no (8594 words)

	Electronic body music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Electronic body music (acronymed and mainly known as EBM) is a music genre that combines elements of industrial music and electronic punk music.
		The term electronic body music was coined by the Belgian band Front 242 in 1984 to describe the music [1]) of their EP No Comment, released in the same year.
		This evolution of the dying EBM genre has been termed by the music press and labels as hardcore electro or electro-industrial [2] or especially in Germany and South America as elektro for short (not to be confused with the hip-hop subgenre electro).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Electronic_body_music (899 words)

	The London Bach Society, Early music and baroque music association
		The London Bach Society is the UK's premier Bach society, bringing the music of Johann Sebastian Bach 'live' to both the devoted follower and curious newcomer for over 50 years.
		Domestic engagements were interspersed with foreign tours, to Israel (1969), the United States (1971 and 1973), Italy (1975) and Bulgaria (1980).
		The LBS committee had come to the conclusion that in the light of modern scholarship, it was no longer artistically tenable, or financially feasible, to have a 60-strong amateur choir performing with an orchestra of period instruments.
	www.goldberg-magazine.com /en/associations/unitedkingdom/8770.php (710 words)

	Blues
		The use of blue notes and the prominence of call-and-response patterns in the music and lyrics are indicative of the blues' West African pedigree.
		One kind of early 1940s urban blues was the jump blues, a style heavily influenced by big band music and characterized by the use of the guitar in the rhythm section, a jazzy, up-tempo sound, declamatory vocals and the use of the saxophone or other brass instruments.
		Musically, spirituals were a descendent of New England choral traditions, and in particular of Isaac Watts's hymns, mixed with African rhythms and call-and-response forms.
	music.information-free.com /American-music/Blues.html (6208 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Tom Ellard
		Ellard's first music contributions began in the late 1970s as a teenager, he was influenced by groups that emerged from the early United Kingdom and Australian punk movement, such as Throbbing Gristle, SPK, Wire and other like artists.
		Predating music technology such as MIDI and personal computers, Ellard's early work was performed tape machines, tape loops and basic analogue equipment.
		Through the 1980s Ellard began to take advantage of technological developments such as the music sequencer in combination with looping sounds before sampling.
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	The Virgin encyclopedia of dance music by Colin Larkin (Used, New, Out-of-Print) - Alibris
		From then on, dance music was -- along with rap -- one of the dominant forces in the music and youth culture of the 1980s.
		But in a way that has never happened before, the music has continued splintering off and re-inventing itself into a myriad of styles, each with its own heroes and folklore.
		In an area rarely documented in any depth, The Virgin Encyclopedia of Dance Music is an essential companion for finding your way round all those key developments and their prime movers: the bands, the producers and the re-mixers....
	www.alibris.com /search/books/qwork/7053792/used/The%20Virgin%20encyclopedia%20of%20dance%20music (315 words)

	Music of the United Kingdom
		English traditional music is an extremely broad concept, as there is much variety between the different regions of England.
		Of all the regions of the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland (and its neighbor, the Republic of Ireland) has the most vibrant folk traditions.
		Traditional music includes a wide array of traditional dances and songs, many of which have had a major impact on British popular music.
	home.doramail.com /uk_unitedkingdom:doramail.com/music-of-the-united-kingdom.htm (1179 words)

	Hawaiian Music
		Close harmony singing is highly developed in church music and the power and emotional impact of chants and hymns at weddings and funerals is well known to visitors who attend.
		In addition to drums, the nose flute, its music and its context, is one of the oldest musical traditions in Polynesia.
		Kalakaua's conviction that the revitalization of traditional culture was at the root of the survival of the Hawaiian kingdom became a major factor in the continuity of traditional music and dance, and his influence still shows.
	www.janesoceania.com /hawaii_music/index.htm (3251 words)

	Music of the United Kingdom: Encyclopedia II - Music of the United Kingdom - Early British popular music
		Music of the United Kingdom: Encyclopedia II - Music of the United Kingdom - Early British popular music
		Music of the United Kingdom - Early British popular music: Encyclopedia II - Music of the United Kingdom - Early British popular music
		Main article: Early British popular music Beginning in the 16th century, printed broadside ballads were the first genre of British popular music.
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	Music Eras @ I Write The Music.com
		Timeline of trends in music from the United States (1930-1970)
		Music of immigrant communities in the United States
		Musical works and their composers are usually described as belonging to a specific era
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	Microphones- Double Your Pleasure - Stereo Miking vs Mono Miking
		Units with active components are favored, as these provide a well-balanced matrix and, typically, a control system to vary the M-to-S ratio without damaging the signal-to-noise ratio, phase response, or frequency response.
		Originally from the United Kingdom, she is now based in Gainesville, Florida.
		A popular technique in Europe, it was relatively unknown in the United States until the advent of stereo TV broadcasts.
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	"Punk" after the Pistols: American Music, Economics, and Politics in the 1980s and 1990s - Sex Pistols Popular Music ...
		When attempting to discuss punk rock as a subculture, as movements in musical or fashion styles, or as simply the next phase in popular music production, critics have invariably looked to the most notable (or noticeable) "punk" bands from which to draw their examples and form their conclusions.
		In other words, it is precisely when punk becomes popular culture that it ceases to be punk; thus it remains to be argued whether there is anything "punk" about the way in which it has been defined and described for the last twenty years of academic treatments of the subject.
		Despite the attempted cooption of the terms on which alternative music and culture have presented themselves as integral parts of mainstream marketing strategies, we may yet see the potential in punk to signal new social movements with economic, social, and political impact.
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