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The A-side and B-side are the two sides of phonograph records and cassettes, and the terms have often been printed on the labels of two-sided music recordings. The A-side usually features a recording that its artist, producer, or record company intends to be the initial focus of promotional efforts and radio airplay, with the aim of it becoming ...
The psychology of music, or music psychology, is a branch of psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and/or musicology. It aims to explain and understand musical behaviour and experience , including the processes through which music is perceived, created, responded to, and incorporated into everyday life.
Meaning respectively "measured song" or "figured song". Originally used by medieval music theorists, it refers to polyphonic song with exactly measured notes and is used in contrast to cantus planus. [3] [4] capo 1. capo (short for capotasto: "nut") : A key-changing device for stringed instruments (e.g. guitars and banjos)
The term "karaoke" is a combined Japanese word from karappo (空っぽ, empty) and okestura (オーケストラ, orchestra), meaning "empty orchestra" or an "orchestra void of vocals," which the Minus-One machine is. [4] Although, the term and the idea of records without vocals can be traced back to the Music Minus One company in the 1950s. [5]
Opening chapters on emotion and meaning in music (by Leonard B. Meyer) and the Music as Language metaphor (Rita Aiello) are followed by a range of insightful papers on the perception of music by Niclolous Cook, W. Jay Downling, Jamshed Baruscha, and others. Levitin, D. (2007). This is your brain on music. New York: Plume.
Track five on her latest project, called “So Long, London,” hints at the slow breakdown of her relationship with British actor Joe Alwyn, who she dated for six years. According to ...
The Oxford Companion to Music describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory": The first is the "rudiments", that are needed to understand music notation (key signatures, time signatures, and rhythmic notation); the second is learning scholars' views on music from antiquity to the present; the third is a sub-topic of musicology ...
Approaches or techniques to musical analysis. Assumption and advocating could be considered missing. Musical analysis is the study of musical structure in either compositions or performances. [1] According to music theorist Ian Bent, music analysis "is the means of answering directly the question 'How does it work?'". [2]