This foundational study draws upon the joint strengths of current music history and music theory to outline a new, up-to-date paradigm for understanding the compositional choices found in the instrumental works of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and their contemporaries: sonatas, chamber music, symphonies, overtures, and concertos. The increased availability of sheet music helped to spread musical styles more quickly and across a larger area. To many baroque composers, the different dances embodied specific characters. The PhD, which is required for students who want to work as university professors in musicology, music history, or music theory, takes three to five years of study after the master's degree, during which time the student will complete advanced courses and undertake research for a dissertation.
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With the advent of sound recording, records of popular songs, rather than sheet music became the dominant way that music lovers would enjoy their favourite songs. Professional musicians sometimes work as freelancers orseeking contracts and engagements in a variety of settings. There are often many links between amateur and professional musicians. Beginning amateur musicians take with professional musicians. In community settings, advanced amateur musicians perform with professional musicians in a variety of ensembles such as community and community orchestras. A distinction is often made between music performed for a live audience and music that is performed in a studio so that it can be recorded and distributed through the music retail system or the broadcasting system. However, there are also many cases types of instrumental music a live performance in front of an audience is also recorded and types of instrumental music. Live concert recordings are popular in both classical music and in forms such as rock, where are prized by music lovers. In the scene, live, improvised are preferred to studio recordings. Composition French composer 1657—1726pen in hand. In many cultures, including Western classical music, the act of composing also includes the creation ofsuch as awhich is then performed by the composer or by other singers or musicians. In popular music and traditional music, the act of composing, which is typically called songwriting, may involve the creation of a basic outline of the song, called thewhich sets out theand. In classical music, the composer typically his or her own compositions, but in musical theatre and in pop music, songwriters may hire an arranger to do the orchestration. In some cases, a songwriter may not use notation at all, and instead compose the song in her mind and then play or record it from memory. In jazz and popular music, notable recordings by influential performers are given the weight that written scores play in classical music. Even when music is notated relatively precisely, as in classical music, there are many decisions that a performer has to make, because notation does not specify all of the elements of music precisely. Different performers' interpretations of the same work of music can vary widely, in terms of the tempos that are chosen and the playing or singing style or of the melodies. Composers and songwriters who present their own music are interpreting their songs, just as much as those who perform the music of others. The standard body of choices and techniques present at a given time and a given place is referred to aswhereas interpretation is generally used to mean the individual choices of a performer. A work of music can have multiple composers, which often occurs in when a band collaborates to write a song, or in musical theatre, when one person writes the melodies, a second person writes the lyrics, and a third person orchestrates the songs. A piece of music can also be composed with words, images, or computer programs that explain or notate how the singer or musician should create musical sounds. Examples range from avant-garde music that usesto text compositions such asto computer programs that select sounds for musical types of instrume
