Computer-assisted music composition is an exciting field. Some of the most interesting possibilities of such composition are depicted in Figure 1, where the possibilities of musical information flows are illustrated. The traditional way of using the...

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IN AN ERA WHEN PAPER was very expensive, reusable surfaces of various kinds--slate, plaster, varnished parchment--served a variety of functions, in schools, in business, even for recording gambling debts. Their use for music is a recent discovery.(1) Tablets have been unearthed in...

A Paper by the American Academy of Teachers of Singing INTRODUCTION A composer writes music because he or she cannot do otherwise. A person possessing the gift of musical creativity must exercise it. The melodies, rhythms, harmonies, tone colors, and structures within...

Even if Barry Bonds is poised to break the home run record right there in Atlanta, Hank Aaron is not going.Period."I will never reconsider my decision," Aaron told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Tuesday from his adopted hometown.Bonds is 10 homers from matching...

Alberto Iglesias, who composed the soundtracks for Oscar-winning film director Pedro Almodovar's "Talk to Her" and "All About My Mother," has won Spain's 2007 National Film Award, the Culture Ministry said Monday.The state-sponsored award highlighted Iglesias "for a professional trajectory full of inspiration, enlivened by...