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	Popular music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Popular music is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and mostly distributed commercially.
		Popular music is associated with (produced for or by) a particular social group.
		In this respect, popular music differs from traditional folk music, which was created by ordinary people for their own enjoyment, and from classical music, which was originally created to serve the purposes of the Church or for the entertainment of the nobility.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Popular_music (1739 words)

	Song structure (popular music) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The structures or musical forms of songs in popular music are rarely through-composed.
		In popular music a verse roughly corresponds with a poetic stanza.
		In popular music, chorus is used to mean the refrain of a song, which often sharply constrasts the verse melodically, rhythmically, and harmonically, and assumes a higher level of dynamics and activity, often with added instrumentation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Song_structure_(popular_music) (520 words)

	Song - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Art songs are songs created for performance in their own right, or for the purposes of a European upper class, usually with piano accompaniment, although they can also have other types of accompaniment such as an orchestra or string quartet, and are always notated.
		The German word for song, "Lied" (plural: "Lieder"), is used in French and English-speaking communities to refer to the serious art song, whereas in German-speaking communities the word "Kunstlied" (plural: "Kunstlieder") is used to distinguish art song from folk song ("Volkslied").
		Folk songs are songs of often anonymous origin (or are public domain) that are transmitted orally.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Song (968 words)

	Song - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		An art song with a German text is often referred to as a Lied.
		The above pop song structure is an extremely common way of building a modern pop song, including heavy metal, rap, rock songs and all other genres of pop songs.
		Some extremely musically simple song structures have songs which have only a single section which is repeated with slight modifications in order to sustain a listener's interest in the song.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/s/o/n/Song.html (1058 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Popular music
		By the late 19th century these songs were referred to as "folk song" and a distinction was made between folk music and the more recently developed urban popular music.
		Now popular music is distributed via mass media such as recordings and radio (as classical music is now also).
		As noted earlier, these have a distinct character from popular music: either they are transmitted by word of mouth rather than in organized fashion (children's songs, authentic folk music) or else they are produced to fill the needs of a particular social institution (church, aristocracy, the military, or the state).
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Popular_music (903 words)

	Songwriters Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Songs written during these years were inspired by political events and transcended their era to become the soundtrack of American history.
		Negro songs were introduced in the late 1700s, and popular music adopted simple melody--a balance between text and tune and a sameness of rhythm.
		During the period before Elvis Presley made a song's performance more important than its publication--when a song's popularity was determined not by the number of records it sold but by the number of sheet music copies it sold--publishing companies hired composers and lyricists on a permanent basis to create popular songs.
	www.songwritershalloffame.org /inductees_by_era.asp (1674 words)

	Popular music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Today, popular music is distributed via mass media such as recordings and radio (as classical music is now also).
		Classical music compositions in the 20th century attempted to strip away the erroneous, the extra details, and as with modern art, remove everything apart from the essence of the image.
		By the 1920s, popular music entered the process with songs that were catchy and entertaining, though often banal in their simplicity, but began to rival classical compositions in their complexity and sophistication.
	www.abitabouteverything.com /files/p/po/popular_music_1.html (2465 words)

	IDN Music: Education and Music Industry Articles - The Mechanics of Song Structure
		because they are masters of their music, they are able to pull off a series of non-related sounds, noise and effects and bring it all together to form a song.
		B is the chorus which is the catchy part of the song that people are supposed to remember and sing along to.
		This example doesn't seem to be structured according to current theory, but it is. try composing a song with those basic structures and i can almost guarantee that it will work provided that your chorus at the end is enough of a climax.
	www.idnmusic.com /education/the_mechanics_of_song_structure.html (971 words)

	Integrity Music
		Contemporary popular songs are generally longer and contain more words than those written fifty or sixty years ago.
		In this form the lyrical and musical hook or punch line is usually placed at the end of the verse instead of in the chorus.
		Songs using this structure tend to be shorter and can be great in medleys.
	www.integritymusic.com /worship/walker/1102.html (1306 words)

	Song
		era, the art song is considered one of the most distinctive music forms developed.
		are songs which may be considered in between art songs and folk songs.
		than art songs, however, musicologists who are "both contemptuous and condescending [of popular music] are looking for types of production, musical form, and listening which they associate with a different kind of music...'classical music'...and they generally find popular music lacking" (Middleton 1990, p.103).
	www.mp3.fm /Song.htm (697 words)

	Popular music
		belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are broadly popular.
		As participatory music, "garage bands" are in a sense a resurrection of the old tradition of
		music continues to have a following, but it is probably a rather older group, on average, than the audience for
	www.mp3.fm /Popular_music.htm (724 words)

	Tips on writing song
		This is the easiest and most basic song structure, with both verses played once and the chorus repeated at least three times.
		Now that we have an understanding of the most popular song structures let’s take a look at the internal structure of the verse, chorus and bridge.
		Every song has approximately three minutes to tell a story, and each line has to be precise and to the point.
	nene.essortment.com /writingsongtip_rmmf.htm (819 words)

	Song (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		For other meanings, see Song (disambiguation).'' A song is a relatively short musical composition for the human voice (possibly accompanied by other musical instruments), which features words (lyrics).
		Often romantic art songs sharing similar elemebts were grouped as a song cycle.
		(Kamien, 217–18) Popular songs are songs which may be considered in between art songs and folk songs.
	song.kiwiki.homeip.net (1065 words)

	Song
		A rap song sparked a nightclub shooting between rival gangs that had declared a truce to celebrate a birthday, leaving two men dead and four others injured, police said.
		The Cedar Valleys Promise Early Childhood Literacy Coalition is excited to announce its seventh annual Celebrate Reading, Celebrate Song fundraising event to be held at the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center at 7 p.m.
		OUTSPOKEN Chimurenga music maestro, Thomas Mapfumo, has stopped Gramma Records from reproducing his song Ruva Rangu in the album Flashback/Ndangariro, a compilation of golden oldies.
	www.transporteon.com /Airlines-S/Song.php (1402 words)

	Masataka Goto: SmartMusicKIOSK
		In general, the main objective of listening to music is to appreciate it, and it is common for a listener to play a musical selection from start to finish.
		In the case of popular music, for example, customers often want to listen to the most representative, uplifting part of a song, i.e., the chorus or refrain, to pass judgment on that song.
		The structure of a song is automatically analyzed beforehand and functions are provided enabling automatic jumping to sections that would be of interest to listeners.
	staff.aist.go.jp /m.goto/SmartMusicKIOSK (2038 words)

	Building Bridges - Guitar Noise
		The “conventions” of music theory, whether a chord progression from Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony or the song structure of the latest tunes off the latest Oasis album, are older than the hills.
		In observing song structure, be it Beck or Irving Berlin, it’s almost impossible not to see the patterns that make up almost every song.
		But whether you want to write a hit song, a genre song, or just something to prove that you can write a song, it is vital that you understand how they are put together.
	www.guitarnoise.com /article.php?id=29 (2079 words)

	Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on songs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Dream Musician is offering songs that consumers can buy without certain musical parts -- such as the drumline, keyboard parts or guitar licks.
		Colloquially, song can mean any music composition, even those without vocals (though in music styles that are predominately vocal-based, a composition without vocals is often called an instrumental).
		The above pop song structure is an extremely common way of building a modern pop song, including heavy metal, hip hop, rock songs and all other genres of pop songs.
	www.blinkbits.com /blinks/songs (1465 words)

	Rock & Roll Downloads - Download Rock & Roll Music - Download Rock & Roll MP3s
		And no band since has proven to have such a broad fan base or far-reaching popularity, and it is impossible to hear any of the groups that followed them without detecting some sort of influence, whether it was musical or aesthetic.
		One couldn't, unfortunately, say the same for the quality of his music, which was not just becoming more sedate, but was starting to either repeat itself, or opt for operatic ballads that didn't have a whole lot to do with rock.
		The LP was a huge hit, vital to launching surf music as a national craze, and one of the few truly strong records to be recorded by a self-contained American rock band prior to the British Invasion.
	www.mp3.com /rock-&-roll/genre/440/subgenre.html (9189 words)

	Sheet Music, Printed Music, Music Books, Printed Sheet Music
		Music Exchange are pleased to announce the exclusive distribution of an innovative new Piano Tutor series - Playing in Colour, a series of 3 books that take children through the first stages of learning to play the piano.
		The Music Exchange supply the Sheet Music of all publishers for all Instruments quickly and direct to your home by first class post or courier worldwide.
		Within the 3 main sections of this book, a lesson by lesson structure has been used to give a clear and carefully graded method of study.
	www.music-exchange.co.uk (617 words)

	►► Music :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This music is definitely not for everybody but I was not the least bit disappointed.
		Their story is truly one of the more unusual tales of classical music today.
		Pop music has produced world-famous examples of all-in-the-family groups (which typically gave way to one or two solo stars as the years passed).
	music.whiteline.pp.ru /index.php?grp=American+Popular+Song&... (1531 words)

	Amazon.com: Rent (2005 Movie Soundtrack): Music: Jonathan Larson,Rosario Dawson,Wilson Jermaine Heredia,Taye ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This song, with the additional horn orchestrations, is another incident where it's appearing this "Rent" is trying to improve across the board on every aspect of the "old" one, while not changing anything important.
		Throughout this soundtrack, the musical accompaniment to the vocals is faultless.
		As my title states, the music is much better than the original, all instrument performances are much richer and complex without changing the actual song structure.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000AYEI4U?v=glance (3014 words)

	Digital Spy Forums - Song Structure Q For Musicians
		I've noticed that a lot of songs have a formulaic structure: they comprise the main tune, but have a different short tune embedded inside them; for example, in Yesterday, the "Why she had to go I don't know..." bit.
		Often this part of the song is not integrated and sounds gratuitous as if the writer just wanted to vary the tune but couldn't think of anything better and had to do it anyway.
		and to pause and reflect on the earlier portions of the song or to prepare the listener for the climax.
	forum.digitalspy.co.uk /board/showthread.php?t=351770 (266 words)

	popular piano music sheet Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Sheet music of popular songs in a piano-only format that aids the analysis of song structure and design.
		Over 366,000 sheet music titles including guitar tab, songbooks, scores, instructional sheet music, choral music, broadway sheet music and more.
		Sheet music in the 19th century.....the collection of the Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee.....Pacific Grand March for piano..
	www.piano-lessons-music.com /public/popular-piano-music-sheet.html (403 words)

	Music: Sheet Music: Keyboard
		Piano arrangements of songs from popular music's "Golden Age" plus some "how-to" books.
		Large selection of music and books for all performers, students and teachers, of all ages.
		Organ registrations and music for the Technics and Yamaha organs available on a floppy disk.
	www.shopping-smart.info /Music/Sheet_Music/Keyboard (213 words)

	Welcome to Muze: Solutions for Digital Media Commerce
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		The acquisition by Muze also includes Loudeye’s encoding services, including for EMI Music customers, and music sound samples services, along with its hosting and internet radio services.
		This transaction is a further step in Loudeye's plan announced in February 2006 to focus on its key revenue generating customers, while substantially reducing Loudeye's cost structure.
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	Rock Sheet Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Offering Rock string quartet sheet music made famous by Hampton String Quartet.
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