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Music \Mu"sic\, n. [F. musique, fr. L. musica, Gr. ? (sc. ?),
any art over which the Muses presided, especially music,
lyric poetry set and sung to music, fr. ? belonging to Muses
or fine arts, fr. ? Muse.]
1. The science and the art of tones, or musical sounds, i.
e., sounds of higher or lower pitch, begotten of uniform
and synchronous vibrations, as of a string at various
degrees of tension; the science of harmonical tones which
treats of the principles of harmony, or the properties,
dependences, and relations of tones to each other; the art
of combining tones in a manner to please the ear.
Music. The world without music would be dull, and boring. So lets take
music, and date it back.......
Music dates back; too far back for anyone to imageine. Music came along
before writing, which the Sumarians invented, in about 3600 BC. The very first
type of music was vocal; Men shouting to each other and automatically altering
their pitch. The people, ages and ages ago, might finally discover it. By
accidently hitting a rock against something else, and producing a ringing
sound. Or, perhaps, a hollow tree trunk, which makes a sound that might warn
for danger. Discovering a shell, and by blowing into it, it would produce a
rich, hollow sound. The earliest musical instruments, were as following:
Grass: By holding a blade of thick grass between the thumbs, and blowing,
it will reveal a high pitched sound. This was perhaps the origin of the reed
instrument today, such as a clarinet, or saxophone.
Bamboo: A hollow, or split bamboo stick, would create a series of tones, when
the wind would blow through them.
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My Computer's Statistics
HP Deskjet 672 color printer
- Artec As6E Color flatbed scanner
- Windows '95
What I suggest getting:
oh what the heck, just go ahead and get Windows '98
- HP deskjet 722 color printer-tons of features, fast, and quiet
- Artec As6E Color flatbed scanner
What the heck do all of those terms mean?
- The pentium Proccessor
- The pentium Proccessor is your main proccesser. It proccesses all of the
data you input and it outputs. It is a small little booger, but it sure
does alot. The higher number you get, the faster it will be. I have a 233
mhz proccessor, which there is a 400 mhz proccessor which is faster, but of
course more expensive.
- RAM
- RAM also determines how fast your computer goes, and controls how many
things can be open at a time. It is kind of hard to explain, but it was hard
for me.
- Hard Drive
- Your hard drive is your permanent floppy disk. Well, it's not a floppy
disk, but lets pretend it is. A regular 3.5" floppy disk can hold 1.44 Megabytes
of space, which isn't very much. A hard drive is a disk that can hold up to
15 gigabytes! Whoa! I'll explain megabytes and giga bytes later. Your hard
drive holds all of your programs and things you saved on your computer. In fact,
it's one of the most needed parts in the whole system!
- CDROM
- Your CDROM is what reads from a CD, or compact disc. It looks like this:
. These CD's hold
ALOT of memory. Tons and tons of megabytes can be stored on them! Even past
500! The **X , the ** meaning a number, is how fast your CD Drive reads.
No offense, but 1-8X CDROMS are awful.Slow! You probably can't hardly find
any graphic programs for them, because it doesn't read fast enough. I would
recommend a 24X or 32X. My 32X is so fast, you can hear it and feel air coming
out of it! It is fast, but loud.
- Modem
- Your modem is what you are using now to view this page. It is what recieves
data from a phone wire. It is like a human conversation, but with 2 computers.
It receives what address you type in. (exp. http://www.angelfire.com/cgi-bin/bedit)
These bigger number you get, the faster it receives data. The 56K is the fastest
one out. I personally love it. It receives 56 kilobytes per second. It's younger
brother the 28.8K modem is what most people have. It isn't that bad, just
receives data 2X slower than the 56K modem. I would recommend a 56K modem.
- Megabytes, gigabytes, kilobytes?
- First, a byte is about 8 1's. Yes, 11111111. A bit is one of those 1's.
A kilobyte is 1000 times that. So a kilobyte is 1000 bytes. A kilobyte isn't
very much. A megabyte is 1 million bytes. Those can really add up. That means
1,000,000 bytes! Whoa! It is 1000 kilobytes. Now, the big one. Gigabytes. A
giga byte. Sounds big, doesn't it. Well, it is. 1,000,000,000 bytes. Yes, 1 billion
bytes. Most computers
have gigabytes for their storage. Some older ones only have megabytes of memory.
Well, I hope that helped you!
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