Posts with keyword: music

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Seeing the Dynamic in the Static

Thu Jan 22 19:41:00 2009

Jeff Atwood opines on why many programmers are also musicians of some kind--or at least appreciate music. I've heard this said of mathematicians as well. I have long held that all of these disciplines hold in common the ability to relate the dynamic and the static. Good programmers can see how the program will operate by looking at a lexically scoped program listings. Musicians do the same thing with music (I'm not just talking about music notation, but that's part of it).
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Lovin' Genius

Tue Sep 16 07:11:00 2008

The latest version of iTunes has something called Genius which automatically creates playlists from a single song. When I downloaded the new version, I turned off the genius sidebar and figured it was something I'd just ignore. I was turned off by the need to genius to upload information about my songs to Apple and the idea that it has such strong tie-ins to iTMS. But yesterday Steve Fulling was raving about it, so I decided to give it a try. In less than 12 hours, I'm a convert. I still hide the sidebar because that's where all the
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Free Sheet Music by Sally DeFord

Sun Nov 27 11:47:00 2005

I sing in the choir at church. This morning as we were practicing, I noticed this at the bottom of the music: Copyright 2005 by Sally DeFord Making copies for non-commercial use is permitted. This and other DeFord sheet music may be downloaded free at: http://www.defordmusic.com I was curious, so I visited the site when I got home. What I found were dozens of pieces of music, all nicely typeset, some with sample MP3s, free for downloading. Some are original compositions and some are arrangements of familiar hymns. Some are specific to the LDS church, but most would be
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