President Bill Cooper accepted recommendations from the program improvements subcommittee to spend approximately $479,000 of University funds for one-time program improvements in the current fiscal year and commit another $1.8 million for continuing program improvements for the 2004--05 fiscal year. from p. 1 In addition to Ciulla, other members of the program improvement subcommittee are Dr. Used by various cultures throughout history as tools, ornaments and currency, shells now teach us about the environment and evolution. The Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature is located in a separate wing of Boatwright Memorial Library with its entrance on Richmond Way.

For this classification, student performers demonstrate average characteristic tone qualities for their instrument and musical style of performance, however, they lose control often. ·Student performers demonstrate little awareness of tuning tendencies of instruments and sensitivity to uniform intonation within their section. ·For this classification, the ensemble demonstrates average concepts of balance and blend of sounds, and does not produce a desirable and appropriate sonority of the music performed. ·The ensemble exhibits average control of all aspects of rhythm, tempo, and pulse, and there are many lapses. ·Student performers demonstrate an awareness of tuning tendencies of instruments and sensitivity to uniform intonation within their section, but there are several flaws.

database, design, search engine, query, rhythm, melodies, core, queries, interfaces, Themefinder, language, atoms, query string, filters.

The ideal content-based musical search engine for large corpora must be both expressive enough to meet the needs of a diverse user base and efficient enough to perform queries in a reasonable amount of time. One can query the database using five different kinds of search queries: pitch, interval, scale degree, gross contour, and refined contour. All of these properties are self-evident, with the exception of base-40 pitch, which is a numeric pitch representation where the intervals are invariant under transposition while maintaining enharmonic spelling (Hewlett 1992). The concept of secondary indices allows the individual properties of each atom to be indexed independently of any other properties.

sight singing, courses, placement test, core, ear training, Music Advising Office, Students, sequence, sheet, preparation, Music Building, undergraduate theory, Ottman, sightreading.

MUSIC 113 (Beginning Ear Training) and MUSIC 119 (Beginning Music Theory) are the pre-core courses prior to starting the music theory and ear training sequence. The first year theory core courses include MUSIC 201-203 and the second year courses are MUSIC 301303. Students who score above 80% on the written test may continue to take the sight singing test which is the second part. Students eligible to take the sight singing test should contact the Music Advising Office, Room 116 (Music Building) at 543-1239 or e-mail at musicadv@u.washington.edu. SCORES: Results from the Music Placement Test will be returned to you within ten minutes after the test.

act, subsection, sound recordings, publication, communication, country, moral rights, regulations, owner, authorize, Minister, paragraph, rights, subject-matter.

For the purpose of subsection (1), the issue of photographs and engravings of sculptures and architectural works is not deemed to be publication of those works. For the purposes of this Act, other than in respect of infringement of copyright, a work or other subject-matter is not deemed to be published or performed in public or communicated to the public by telecommunication if that act is done without the consent of the owner of the copyright. 5. (1) Subject to this Act, copyright shall subsist in Canada, for the term hereinafter mentioned, in every original literary, dramatic, musical and artistic work if any one of the following conditions is met: (a) in the case of any work, whether published or unpublished, including a cinematographic work, the author was, at the date of the making of the work, a citizen or subject of, or a person ordinarily resident in, a treaty country; (b) in the case of a cinematographic work, whether published or unpublished, the maker, at the date of the making of the cinematographic work, (i) if a corporation, had its headquarters in a treaty country, or (ii) if a natural person, was a citizen or subject of, or a person ordinarily resident in, a treaty country; or (c) in the case of a published work, including a cinematographic work, (i) in relation to subparagraph 2.2(1)(a)(i), the first publication in such a quantity as to satisfy the reasonable demands of the public, having regard to the nature of the work, occurred in a treaty country, or (ii) in relation to subparagraph 2.2(1)(a)(ii) or (iii), the first publication occurred in a treaty country.

wavelet, pitch, signals, filters, detection, octaves, durations, transcription, tempo, algorithm, harmonics, EVM, instruments, maximums.

Both projects noted difficulties in getting the pitch detection process to work right, with unwanted notes appearing in the output. Most notable of these techniques include the Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT) or the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). EVM implementation The EVM implementation was based on the code from lab 1 and 3. 10s (Live) version: 675 million cycles 10Xs (Segmented) version: 500 million cycles Before optimizations: 10s version: 1 billion cycles 10Xs version: 900 million cycles From the code, it is apparent that the period-by-period processing of signals required no double loops (except for either traversing through the array or the one case where elements in an array were removed), therefore no unrolling of loops was applicable.

Reel, Jig, Strathspey, Dorian, tunes, Air, tradition, Hornpipe, Waltz, Mixolydian, Cape Breton, John, Beaton, Campbell.

This collection contains 201 tunes played on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. The collection is organized by tune type (Air, Miscellaneous, March, Strathspey, Reel, Jig and Waltz) and then by key. Clogs and slow hornpipes (e.g., Newcastle Hornpipe) are typically in sets in along with marches or strathspeys. In the Cape Breton tradition it is common for musicians to play medleys of tunes with the same tonic but to switch freely between the modes. These include the following composers Donald Angus Beaton, Kinnon Beaton and Andrea Beaton (The Beaton Collection), Joey Beaton (Mabou Tunes & Tunes and Ties), Jerry Holland (Jerry Holland's Collection of Fiddle Tunes & The Second Collection), Dan R. MacDonald (Heather Hill & Trip to Windsor), Dougie MacDonald (Fiddle Tunes), Dan Hughie MacEachern (MacEachern's Vol. 1 & 2), Brenda Stubbert (Brenda Stubbert's Collection of Fiddle Tunes).

wave, Uwe Ligges, wave files, extractWave, channel, periodogram, Mono-Stereo, downsample, class wave, fundamental frequencies, interact, indicating, diapason, Usage.

Author Uwe Ligges <ligges@statistik.uni-dortmund.de> with contributions from Andrea Preusser and Claus Weihs. A window of width ' width' running through the time series selects the samples from which the periodograms are to be calculated. Logical; ifTRUE (default), two steps will be applied: (i) the input signal will be normalized to amplitude max(abs(amplitude)) == 1, (ii) the resulting spec values will be normalized to sum up to one for each periodogram. An object of class Wspec is returned containing the following slots. Each element of the list corresponds to one periodogram estimated from samples of the window beginning at start of the Wave object.

songs, American, history, recordings, tunes, publishing, lyrics, culture, performers, composers, African-American, minstrel, American Popular Song, musics.

Written by Ronald J. Walters and John Spitzer, Making Sense of American Popular Song provides a place for students and teachers to begin working with songs as a way of understanding the past. Ronald G. Walters is a Professor in the Department of History of The Johns Hopkins University. The covers of sheet music and record and CD jackets contain useful information about songs, as well as about how performers and publishers wanted to represent themselves and their music to the public. For a commercial recording it includes the above plus names of the performers, the recording company, catalog number, date of recording, and date the recording was issued.

Hamilton, City, Production, CDN, liaison office, film, Budget, wrap, camera, pre-production, Filming, Location Managers, Satisfactory, film shoot.

To All Production and Location Managers: The following information must be on file with the Film Liaison Office for the City of Hamilton. Address/Location of Filming in the City of Hamilton: Budget Information (approximate figures only): Please indicate whether CDN or US funds. We are interested in estimated spending in Hamilton area. Would you be agreeable to forward to our liaison office negatives/prints (2 maximum) upon completion of your film shoot in the City of Hamilton? How would you rate services provided by the City of Hamilton Film Liaison Office?

iPod, consumers, Apple iPod, songs, support, iTunes, design, tattoos, features, store, warranty, seamless integration, battery, customer.

MIAMI, Aug. 27, 2004 -- HP today announced broad new music offerings -- including its portable digital music player, the Apple iPod from HP -- that improve the digital music experience for consumers. By combining Apple's popular design with HP's consumer reach and comprehensive customer support, the result is a winning digital music solution for the masses. The Tattoos enable consumers to change the look of their iPod by printing their favorite artwork, photos, colors or any image they create on their own. The included Apple iTunes digital jukebox software lets music lovers easily import, organize and enjoy their entire music collection, making it a simple process to find the music they want.

exhibition, interactives, technology, history, materials, re-purposing, medicine, artifacts, future web, exhibition program, multimedia, media, video, museums.

In May of 2001, the Exhibition Program at the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health opened The Once and Future Web: Worlds Woven by the Telegraph and Internet. For The Once and Future Web, the challenge of displaying and interpreting communications technology provided the Exhibition Program with an opportunity to use multimedia interactives to deliver exhibition content. Archives are maintained as a record of the exhibition and also as a resource for the creation of any supplemental projects associated with the content of an exhibition. The Once and Future Web was developed under the federal government's ADA regulations and accessibility requirements were considered in its design.

Treasury, history, THA, Secretaries, members, United States, Coast Guard, badges, insignia, President, Nation, Time Capsule, law enforcement, life-saving service.

THA is hoping to assist one of its members in research on Treasury law enforcement badges of the past. THA has come across several informative websites about former Treasury organizations that were merged to became the U.S. Coast Guard, a Treasury bureau until it was transferred to the Department of Transportation. While most THA members are aware that the United States Coast Guard had been a Treasury bureau until its transfer to the Department of Transportation in the 1960s, few know of the other Treasury maritime organizations that created the Coast Guard. While other Secretaries had to rely upon written word dispatched by messengers or to attempt to personally visit the President, Secretary Sherman was able to capture the President's attention with ease and clarity.

tunes, popular, MIDI files, representations, searching, composers, audio, lyrics, queries, techniques, standard, libraries, technology, channels.

Digital libraries of music have the potential to capture popular imagination in ways that more scholarly libraries cannot. From the point of view of the non-scholar, non-specialist, non-technophile, digital libraries have yet to come down to earth. Although searching gets the lion's share of research attention, because it presents interesting technical challenges---even more so in music than in textual domains---we believe that browsing is an equally important means of accessing digital libraries so far as the end user is concerned. In this case, the textual search is for the word "beatles," and a melody has been sung that resembles the first few notes of the tune Yesterday.