Phrasing, musical

Barcodas, an iPhone app created by Dutch media artist Leo van der Veen, allows the user to scan any standard Universal Product Code bar code and translate it into a musical phrase. While entertaining, it is primarily intended as an electronic muse for composing. 

As more dynamic forms of communication, music and speech foster a more dynamic and faster form of culture. Musical sounds superimpose into a chord, carrying huge amounts of information both consonant and dissonant, as they change over time, setting up dynamic harmony and melody. Anticipation and resolution, expectation and surprise, draw you into the musical phrase, and the music moves you. 

However, on the basis of past experience I am confident that they all can be sung, provided that certain rules are followed. Firstly, the scansion must be worked over privately, as some words and phrases have to be accented at surprising places. Secondly, these are songs they should not be declaimed as poems. Thirdly, they are intended for communal singing, preferably with musical accompaniment and ideally with a blood alcohol level of around 35 mg per cent. 

His spirit of protest and clever phrasing blended into unusual musical arrangements have made Bob Dylan a recording giant for over thirty-five years. 

Repetition repeating the same words, phrases, or lines for unity, emphasis, or musical effect ( Sing on, spring Sing on, lovers ). 

Then I found myself becoming emotionally quite volatile, sometimes gentle and peaceful, sometimes irritable and pugnacious. It was a day to be connected in one way or another with music. I was reading Bernstein s Joy of Music and every phrase was audible to me. On the radio, Rachmaninoff s 2nd piano concerto on the radio put me in an eyes-closed foetal position and I was totally involved with the structure of the music. I was suspended, inverted, held by fine filigreed strands of the music which had been woven from the arpeggios and knotted with the chords. The commercials that followed were... 

The same effect is observable in intonation by increasing the overall pitch of an utterance while keeping the basic tune pattern constant, the perceived tune remains the same. The relationship between intonational tunes in different pitch ranges is not as simple as the musical equivalent. It has been shown that the increase or decrease in pitch range need not be constant throughout the phrase, as utterances always tend towards a fairly constant final FO value. 

The Tabrene also have a tradition of literature, poetry, and music. They protect their artists, who will paint, make music, weave tales, or coin phrases. It s common for them to quote from "Teeoch," the "Book of Insights." The Teeoch is a group of sayings and proverbs, written by Tee-nalo, one of their great writers. (Traits.)... 

In 1864 the British chemist John Newlands (1837-1898) found that if the elements were arranged in order of increasing relative atomic mass then a pattern appeared (Figure 3.11). Starting at any given element, the eighth one from it was, as he phrased it, a kind of repetition of the first . Because of the similarity to a musical scale he called it the law of octaves . Newlands octaves place some very different elements in the same column, for example phosphorus and manganese, and iron and sulfur. The pattern breaks down if the list of elements is extended. It was widely ridiculed at the time but laid the foundations for later work by Mendeleev. 

Remember the dominance of the number four I talked about in the Structure section four beats in a measure (bar) with four measures in a phrase One of the most common phrases in pop music is twelve bars, or measures, long. To extend the simple C/F/G/C phrase previously created into a full-hlown pop music song is a simple matter (see Figure 3.24). 

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