MUSI 1530- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 53 pages long!)
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Sampling became commercially available in 1978 from an australian company. Sampling is taking parts of other songs and putting them in another. Theremin: instrument you use but cannot; goes back to the 1920"s. Blown away by invention, goes to u. s. to show off new musical invention. Clara rockmore was premier player of the theremin, student of leon theremin himself. Essentially create melodic way of playing the instrument, later used for sound effects. Can be used as song, similar sound to voice or violin, but also different effects. Reverb: way of simulating the acoustics of a room. Walk off the earth cover of somebody that i used to know one guitar. Imogen heap acoustic/electronic artist and singer, known for layering video of her creating song on the spot using vocal layering. Thunderstruck: 3 different versions shows that any song can be covered and recreated in any style of music (2 cellos cover and country cover)
