But the puzzles of the libretto seem to interest Mr Wilson less than how the performers look and move, and Mr Glass writes music less to fit particular words or dramatic exchanges than to create mood and atmosphere.
And that's no less true of music, which may be why Hitchcock used a musical metaphor to express the idea.
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Though these handsets appeal to large numbers of consumers, carriers typically give them less support because music-listening and photo-snapping aren't as profitable as e-mailing or surfing the Web.
On tour behind "In Guards We Trust, " one of the year's best albums, the New York group Guards muscled up, its live music less textured but no less appealing as a synth growled in the midrange along with washes of guitar feedback.
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More plainly stated, listening to music costs less, and different people are telling us what to listen to.
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She continued to record comeback albums well into the 1990s, but over the past decade or so, the new music came less frequently.
As The Asahi Shimbun reports, that system isn't the best for producing deep bass (making them less than ideal for music), but it apparently fares considerably better with the medium and high-pitched sounds of birds and rustling tree branches.
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While iTunes remains a potent marketing vehicle for the iPod, less than 3% of the music found on the average iPod comes from iTunes, according to no less an authority than Apple Chief Executive SteveJobsSteve Jobs.
While iTunes remains a potent marketing vehicle for the iPod, less than 3% of the music found on the average iPod comes from iTunes, according to no less an authority than Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs .
Sunberg and Lind have a young collaboration, having written music together for less than two years.
But in Norway, where pop music tastes are less rigid, he's a pop star.
The big tent dedicated to dance music was rarely less than filled to a boisterous overflow.
Even as the music has become less popular, however, Ray Henry fans are still working to get the state to recognize him.
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In some cases, Internet radio providers pay half of their annual revenues in performance royalties, while other music providers pay less than 10 percent.
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In its present form the New School is indeed new: It is a recent amalgam of a graduate program called the New School for Social Research with two conservatory-like schools (the Parsons School of Design and the Mannes College of Music) and several less well-known entities.
While currently in its third iteration, this piece of music has remained more or less unchanged over the past three decades.
B6 says it used to be really difficult trying to get the equipment needed to make his brand of electronic music, but this is less of a concern today.
As is often the case with such fervent opposition, a person's view of Brahms depended less on the actual character of his music than on how it was described or pigeon-holed.
The reception of Brahms's music gets attention, but less from the point of view of fellow composers, who tended to be lukewarm, than from that of the concert-going public, which was enthusiastic.
Despite the potential for objections from lawmakers, Warner is the third-largest record company and would likely face less resistance than No. 1 Universal Music Group or No. 2 Sony over a bid for No. 4 EMI.
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Oddly, it looks like the app selection is still missing some key titles that already exist on Windows Phone 7, but Samsung's made its own efforts, with preinstalled apps running the gamut from the useful (ChatON) to the less so (Samsung's own Music Hub).
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To some, this analysis of music and society may seem no less far-fetched than Plato's.
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Others in the running for an guild award in March include BBC Radio 3's World and Music, a sequence of classical music interspersed with both popular and less familiar poems and prose read by leading actors.
So while an algorithm might be able to sort out a collection of quality content like feature films, or music released by a label, or books distributed by a publisher, the shear volume of self-published books, or self-recorded music, makes the algorithmic approach less and less successful.
Certain kinds of music or ways of talking become steadily less familiar - they become alien, even threatening.
It's possible, for example, that new music might end up costing radio stations less to play than the Eagles or Fleetwood Mac.
It had been less than a decade since everyone had declared that music-listening would never be the same (iTunes and the iPod), and now it has changed again.
The Bereavement Register suggests that many people have discussed funeral music - and there have been some less than serious suggestions - including Going Underground and Take My Breath Away.
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