Collocations withmusic
These are words often used in combination withmusic.
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acoustic music
There is no movement, no pages, no instruments, no black coats, only live, acoustic music with its unmistakably earthy texture.
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baroque music
I always wanted to write music that combined the impact of rock music with the kind of expressivity of baroque music.
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braille music
Visually impaired musicians gain the same benefits upon learning to read braille music as do sighted musicians who learn to read print music.
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choral music
Other chapters, which examine the choral music, his numerous songs, his orchestral works and his chamber music, are all equally illuminating.
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contemporary music
The advent of the gramophone transformed the cultural conditions of contemporary music, including the way it was taught.
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digital music
Here we face the first challenge in searching for a definition of what interactivity means when applied to digital music systems.
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electronic music
Synth-pop and early post-punk electronic music avoided the obvious connotations to resistance and subversion that punk exhibited.
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fiddle music
Fiddle music is functional music.
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flamenco music
The use of exotic scales also associated with flamenco music.
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hip hop music
See also rapping, roots of hip hop music.
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instrumental music
All of these volumes depend on traditional paradigms drawn from the analysis of instrumental music.
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liturgical music
His sacred music compositions include anthems and liturgical music.
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live music
The local music press, music television, and the live music scene are at their most extensive and visible.
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mariachi music
Most mariachi music is sung in verses of prose poetry.
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music award
From 1983 until 1997 the band released 14 successful albums and won every possible music award along with the national acclaim.
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music class
It is very possible that students attending a popular music class will have never heard this expression before now.
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music cognition
The contributing authors approach the topic from their various backgrounds in education, ethnomusicology, social psychology, music theory, music cognition, music therapy and screenwriting.
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music critic
We have already found this to be the case for secondary compounds (watch-maker) and their relatives of the music critic type.
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music education
The work starts from the premise that music education has meaning and purpose rooted in the application of reason and conscience.
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music educator
His conclusion is that the results should be gratifying for the music educator, indicating music's importance in young people's lives.
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music enthusiast
Each of these textbooks has something to recommend it to the student reader as well as the general music enthusiast.
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music festival
Participating in the community music festival is one means of acting out this identification.
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music industry
This role became crucial when the music industry shifted from a sheet-music-centred to a recordcentred orientation.
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music instruction
The quantity of music instruction has changed periodically; lately it has generally diminished.
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music instrument
By operating the available control devices, the agent in effect 'plays' the system as if it were a new kind of music instrument.
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music lesson
Pupils were genuinely proud of their work and did not seem phased by the technology aspects of the music lesson.
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music licensing
Can we have an urgent debate or statement next week on the implementation of the new music licensing regime?
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music lover
Well, perhaps the poor fellow wasn't a true music lover, but he seems to have had a good time all the same.
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music major
She switched to a music major and began recording her own songs.
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music producer
The following evening we met up at the home recording studio of two music producer friends.
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music publishing
With the industry in its current state, one might well take a pessimistic view of the future of academic music publishing.
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music recital
She had her first music recital in junior high school, and started taking guitar lessons in high school.
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music scene
The local music press, music television, and the live music scene are at their most extensive and visible.
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music specialist
The remaining five respondents (7% of the sample) had music taught to their class by an external music specialist.
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music supervisor
In creating temp tracks, music editors attempt to accommodate a triumvirate of creative forces - director, music supervisor, and composer.
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music teacher
The music teacher knew very little about gospel initially, but was content for the pupils to rehearse themselves in the music room at lunchtime.
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music therapist
The children touched the guitar and interacted with the music therapist in the familiar songs they wanted to hear.
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music therapy
The implications for measuring speech pause time in determining the efficacy of music therapy with depressed patients.
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music venue
Over the last two decades, state officials have placed an aquarium, a new minor league baseball stadium and an outdoor music venue along the city's waterfront.
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old-time music
Of those 2,067 recordings, approximately 40 per cent are of old-time music.
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orchestral music
To save the hypothesis, one might have to limit its application to cases where the orchestral music has only an expressive function.
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organ music
He made classical organ music appeal even to audiences that normally wouldn't be expected to sit still for it.
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piece of music
We can also observe that the percentage is higher when the mother is singing than when the infants are listening to a piece of music.
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printed music
The balance of attention to self and to external factors, such as the printed music, seemed therefore to be an important consideration.
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punk music
As a moderate crowd of theatregoers gathered, the performers started to roll huge empty barrels, while punk music blared from loudspeakers.
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rap music
My students are taught to use software to create digital music environments and to compose rap music.
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recorded music
The acousmatic character of recorded music may have the advantage of a concentration on the auditory, but it leaves vision 'unattached' and uncomfortably redundant.
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sacred music
Only one of its areas, that of sacred music theory, was an exception from the beginning.
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salsa music
The following example shows the most common conga (two drums), timbale bell, and bongo bell pattern combination used in salsa music.
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secular music
None of the contributions concerns either polyphony or secular music-making; the focus is on the history of plainchant and liturgy.
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techno music
Their approach is eclectic, combining influences from electro, electropop, techno music and synthpop to psychedelic and experimental music.
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tonal music
Music listening activities were conducted using tonal music of different genre and styles.
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traditional music
This is not a feature of traditional music where there is no demand for cover bands and no expectation of this kind of imitation.
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trance music
Its main focus from the beginning was trance music, but soon started to release different types of electronic genres.
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western music
Western music history has shifted from oral to written and now to electronic means of creating and preserving information over the past two thousand years.
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