Belfast city centre manager Andrew Irvine has said the MTV European Music Awards will be a "game changer" for Northern Ireland's capital.
BBC: MTV European Music Awards are 'game changer' for Belfast
But European music organisations took exception to what became called the "bars and grills" amendment, attached to the legislation after pressure from American restaurant and bar owners.
Apart from a handful of wax phonograph recordings of Alessandro Moreschi, who died in 1922, there is no audible record of this rich tradition of European music.
Designed by Philips acoustic engineers based in Leuven, Belgium, Philips SoundSphere speakers have met the high expectations of demanding European music-lovers by achieving the best possible balance between their subjective qualities.
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As fans queue up outside Belfast's hotels awaiting a glimpse of their music idols, BBC Newsline's Natasha Sayee looks at the backstage preparations ahead of this weekend's MTV European Music Awards in Belfast.
He also said it would be vital for the repertoire of any orchestra modeled after El Sistema to go beyond standard European orchestral music.
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Later the Portuguese transmitted European Renaissance church music in the 16th century before Japan was closed to most Westerners.
Conversation ranged over Northern Ireland, European politics and music.
Valdes went on to study European and Cuban classical music at the Municipal Conservatory in Havana.
It sounds like a stretch for a band that specializes in klezmer, the clarinet based dance music of Eastern European Jews to record a whole album of Woody Guthrie songs.
The BBC's Mark Georgiou said there was an "almost Glastonbury atmosphere" at the demonstration outside the European Climate Exchange, which featured "music and meditation".
In October 2008, the European Commission warned that listening to personal music players at a high volume over a sustained period could lead to permanent hearing damage.
Spotify on Monday teamed up with Ford to give European drivers of Ford vehicles access to the music streaming service via voice and in-car controls.
More and more, our music is a source of inspiration for European musicians more and more.
In the '90s, with the release of Nelson Mandela and the first democratic elections in South Africa, Mahlasela landed recording deals that resulted in a series of albums, European and African tours, and major South African music awards.
Buenos Aires music fans, a hipper crowd, prefer European musicians like Bjrk and Prodigy.
The European Commission is looking at the current situation after two music companies voiced complaints that the collection agencies constituted monopolies or cartels in their domestic markets.
Buenos Aires music fans, a hipper crowd, prefer such European musicians as Bjrk and Prodigy.
At some point we knew more about the European tradition than about the Cuban tradition in term of classical music.
The European Commission reaffirmed its decision to allow a 2004 merger between the music divisions of Sony and Bertelsmann .
Thus rap music becomes art, Aztec science was as good as European science, and female genital mutilation is not for Westerners to judge.
Hence, in the frame of the overall enlargement process of the European Union, A River's Dream intends to promote folk music, an intangible cultural heritage, as a means of reconciliation, regional and cross-border cooperation and, a vehicle of cultural identity and diversity as well as of mutual understanding.
Later the xylophone found its way into the New World music of the slaves, the music of the Central and South American Indians, and the European symphony orchestra.
And with Songkick and last.fm - two firms to have emerged from London's startup scene - contributing apps to the new platform, yesterday's event was heartening evidence that European firms can work together to make a big noise in the global music industry.
As a result, the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation (CENELEC) amended its safety standard for personal music players.
Jewish immigration brought together influences from Arab music, Jewish religious music, traditional Jewish folk melodies, and the musics of the Eastern European ghettos.
My indefatigable butler spent years working at European hotels but approached me with a friendly ease, chatting about the Seu Jorge music I was listening to while he fixed my flaky Wi-Fi.
Many Jewish immigrant kids had had European musical training, and first generation Jewish-American children were often encouraged to study music, whether at home with a piano or in the synagogue, where texts were routinely meant to be sung.
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He composed music, wrote passable poetry (always in French), bought Old Masters on the European art market, collected porcelain, patronised architects (who frequently worked from the king's own drawings) and more or less single-handedly conducted the affairs of the Prussian state.
The European Commission has said it is studying a proposal to impose value added tax (VAT) on sales of music, software and other "virtual" goods over the internet.
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