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  2. Modal frame - Wikipedia

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    A modal frame in music [1] is "a number of types permeating and unifying African, European, and American song" and melody. [2] It may also be called a melodic mode. "Mode" and "frame" are used interchangeably in this context without reference to scalar or rhythmic modes.

  3. Mode (music) - Wikipedia

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    Given the confusion between ancient, medieval, and modern terminology, "today it is more consistent and practical to use the traditional designation of the modes with numbers one to eight", [55] using Roman numeral (I–VIII), rather than using the pseudo-Greek naming system. Medieval terms, first used in Carolingian treatises, later in ...

  4. List of audio programming languages - Wikipedia

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    LilyPond, a computer program and file format for music engraving. Max/MSP, a proprietary, modular visual programming language aimed at sound synthesis for music; Mercury, a language for live-coding algorithmic music. Music Macro Language (MML), often used to produce chiptune music in Japan

  5. Video game design - Wikipedia

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    Level design makes use of a range of different fields to create a game world. Lighting, space, framing, color and contrast are used to draw a player's attention. A designer can then use these elements to guide or direct the player in a specific direction through the game world or mislead them.

  6. Modal jazz - Wikipedia

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    Modal jazz is jazz that makes use of musical modes, often modulating among them to accompany the chords instead of relying on one tonal center used across the piece.. Though exerting influence to the present, modal jazz was most popular in the 1950s and 1960s, as evidenced by the success of Miles Davis's 1958 composition "Milestones" and 1959 album Kind of Blue, and John Coltrane's quartet ...

  7. Programming (music) - Wikipedia

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    Programming is a form of music production and performance using electronic devices and computer software, such as sequencers and workstations or hardware synthesizers, sampler and sequencers, to generate sounds of musical instruments. These musical sounds are created through the use of music coding languages.

  8. So What (Miles Davis composition) - Wikipedia

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    "So What" is the first track on the 1959 album Kind of Blue by American trumpeter Miles Davis. It is one of the best-known examples of modal jazz, set in the Dorian mode and consisting of 16 bars of D Dorian, followed by eight bars of E ♭ Dorian and another eight of D Dorian. [1]

  9. Modal window - Wikipedia

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    Modal windows are sometimes called heavy windows or modal dialogs because they often display a dialog box. User interfaces typically use modal windows to command user awareness and to display emergency states, though interaction designers argue they are ineffective for that use. [1] Modal windows are prone to mode errors. [1] [2] [3]