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"If one thinks of scale and tune as representing the poles of a continuum of melodic predetermination, then most of the area between can be designated one way or the other as being in the domain of mode." [1] In 1792, Sir Willam Jones applied the term "mode" to the music of "the Persians and the Hindoos". [2]
Johann Nikolaus Forkel (22 February 1749 – 20 March 1818) was a German musicologist and music theorist, generally regarded as among the founders of modern musicology. [1] His publications include the two-volume Allgemeine Geschichte der Musik ( General History of Music ), among the first attempts at a history of Western music and the "ground ...
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 ...
"Music Genome Project" is a registered trademark in the United States. The mark is owned by the company Pandora Media, Inc. [5] The Music Genome Project is covered by U.S. patent 7,003,515 which shows William T. Glaser, Timothy B. Westergren, Jeffrey P. Stearns, and Jonathan M. Kraft as the inventors of this technology.
A text messaging service said Friday that it discovered "one or more" of its users allegedly sent out racist text messages to phone numbers across the country and that the service quickly shut ...
[1] His most influential work, Emotion and Meaning in Music (1956), combined Gestalt Theory and theories by the Pragmatists Charles Sanders Peirce and John Dewey to try to explain the existence of emotion in music. Peirce had suggested that any regular response to an event developed alongside the understanding of that event's consequences, its ...
WARREN, Michigan (Reuters) -Officials in the U.S. battleground state of Michigan said they worry that the Democratic-leaning city of Warren could lag behind the rest of the state in reporting the ...
His exit will mean his tenure as prime minister is the shortest-lived in modern French history. Trump to visit Paris for Notre Dame: Cathedral's reopening in first trip abroad as president-elect.