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Music transformer
The Music Transformer is a neural network model for generating symbolic piano music, introduced in 2018 by Cheng-Zhi Anna Huang and colleagues in Google's Magenta group and published at ICLR 2019.
Music Travel Love
Music Travel Love is the Canadian duo of identical twin brothers Bob and Clint Moffatt, ex-The Moffatts, filming acoustic cover performances in scenic locations; over 6 million YouTube subscribers and 20 million social followers.
Music venues by place
Music venues by place surveys how music venues are distributed and documented across countries and major cities, pointing to per-place coverage rather than profiling individual venues.
Music venues in Canada
Music venues in Canada range from 19th-century heritage halls like Toronto's Massey Hall, opened in 1894, through 1960s performing-arts centers to arenas such as Montreal's Bell Centre, which holds about 21,000.
Music video
Music video: short film accompanying a recorded song, also called promo clip. Genres performance, narrative, concept, hybrid. Term coined by The Big Bopper in 1959; MTV launched 1981; now dominated by YouTube and Vevo.
Music, Fashion, Film
Music, Fashion, Film is the eighth studio album by British pop artist Charli xcx, released July 2026 on Atlantic; an 11-track, 30-minute guitar-based rock-pop record made in Paris with A. G. Cook and Finn Keane, debuting at UK Number 1.
Música (2024 film)
Música (2024) is a Prime Video romantic comedy musical, the directorial debut of Rudy Mancuso, who stars with Camila Mendes as a synesthetic Brazilian-American in Newark; 96% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Musica Aeterna of Cologne
Musica Aeterna was an early music ensemble founded in 1973 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, by Professor Ján Albrecht, devoted to European music performed on period instruments.
Musica Studio's
Musica Studio's (PT Musica Studio's) is an Indonesian music company in Jakarta, founded in 1970, with a catalog of more than 10,000 songs by artists including Rhoma Irama and NOAH.
Musica universalis
Musica universalis, or music of the spheres, is the Pythagorean idea that celestial motions follow musical ratios; systematized by Boethius and Kepler, echoed in modern orbital resonance studies.
Musical composition
Musical composition: the creation of a musical work containing original musical ideas, also called composing. Related to notation, improvisation, composition assessment, and AI music generation (Suno, Udio). Distinguished by original musical ideas and documented teacher lineages since 1450.
Musical ensemble
Musical ensemble: a group performing instrumental or vocal music together, from duo to symphony orchestra; from French 'together'. Covers chamber music, orchestra history, conducting, coordination research, and contemporary ensembles.
Musical film
Musical film (film musicals, movie musicals): films whose plot is structured around music, song, and dance performed by main characters. Emerged with sound cinema 1928-32; spans backstage, jukebox, book, and animated forms; distinct from films with only occasional songs.
Musical form
Musical form, also called structure, is the patterning of music over time through repetition, contrast, and variation. Covers verse-chorus design, phrase structure, letter labels, sonata and rondo forms, and Formenlehre.
Musical Freedom
Musical Freedom, known as Musical Freedom Records since October 2014, is a Dutch record label founded by DJ Tiësto in August 2009 as a Spinnin' Records sub-label.
Musical freestyle (dressage)
Musical freestyle (Kür, freestyle to music) is a dressage test with rider-designed choreography set to music; the Grand Prix freestyle runs 5:30-6:00, combines 16 compulsory movements, and scores half technical, half artistic.
Musical instrument
Musical instrument: devices for producing musical sound, classified by Hornbostel-Sachs (1914) into idiophones, membranophones, chordophones, aerophones, plus Galpin's 1937 electrophones; covers sound mechanisms, bayin and Indian schemes, ancient bone flutes, and classification disputes.
Musical instrument classification
Musical instrument classification, the core concern of organology, is dominated by the 1914 Hornbostel-Sachs system: idiophones, membranophones, chordophones, aerophones, plus electrophones, with Mahillon's 1880 scheme as predecessor and modular, decolonial alternatives proposed.
Musical keyboard
Musical keyboard: the row of pressed levers operating keyboard instruments such as the organ, clavichord, harpsichord, piano, and electronic keyboards; standard 12-note layout, 88 keys on a full piano, MIDI-linked digital versions.
Musical notation
Musical notation is any structured system of graphic symbols representing music visually, for performance, composition, and preservation. Covers neumes, Guido of Arezzo's staff (c. 1030), Franco of Cologne's measured rhythm, tablature, non-Western systems, and digital formats MusicXML and MEI.
Musical note
Musical note: a designation combining pitch and duration, also the sounded tone or written symbol; twelve chromatic names (C–B) per octave, note values halving by factors of two, with solfège, German H, and enharmonic spellings.
Musical saw
Musical saw, also singing saw (lame musicale, singende Säge): a flexed handsaw or toothless purpose-built blade bowed at its inflection-line sweet spot, a friction idiophone with a 2-2.5 octave range, vaudeville-era folk instrument with festivals and a 53-player Guinness record.
Musical theatre
Musical theatre: theatrical storytelling combining song, spoken dialogue, and dance; components are book, music, lyrics, choreography, staging; evolved from operetta and vaudeville; Show Boat (1927) and Oklahoma! (1943) shaped the modern book musical.
Musical tuning
Musical tuning: setting instrument pitches to a reference and a tuning system. Standard is A440 (A above middle C, 440 Hz), adopted at the 1939 London conference and codified in ISO 16:1975; earlier standard was 435 Hz; equal temperament divides the octave into twelve equal semitones.
Musical Youth
Musical Youth, British-Jamaican reggae band formed 1979 in Birmingham; members Kelvin and Michael Grant, Junior and Patrick Waite, Dennis Seaton. "Pass the Dutchie" hit UK number 1 in 1982, sold millions, and made them the first black act on MTV.
Musical.ly
Musical.ly was a social media app for creating and sharing 15-second lip-sync videos, founded in 2014 by Alex Zhu and acquired by ByteDance for about $1 billion.
Musicanus
Musicanus (Mousikanos) was a king on the banks of the Indus River who submitted to Alexander the Great in 325 BC, then revolted and was executed.
MusicBrainz
MusicBrainz is an open, community-maintained database of music metadata about artists, releases, and recordings, founded by Robert Kaye in 2000 as a non-profit response to the commercialized CDDB.
MusicCaps
MusicCaps is a dataset of 5,521 ten-second music clips with captions written by professional musicians, released by Google Research in 2023 as the evaluation set for MusicLM.
MusicGen
MusicGen is an open-weights transformer model from Meta that generates short music clips from text descriptions, released in June 2023, presented at NeurIPS 2023, and capped at 30 seconds.