Word: instrumentality
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...Willie's instrument of change is a fat and irredeemably nerdy, irredeemably innocent lad, Thurman Merman (Brett Kelly), with whom Willie moves in. There's a purity about Thurman, earnestly carving Willie a rather phallic pickle for a present, that finally reaches Willie's stony soul. And ours...
...They were treated less as an instrument and more as an attribute of church service,” he said of the bells’ history. “In a way it doesn’t seem quite right that bells made for religious purposes are being used this way—but the fact that they are played...is better than them not being played...
However, our studies of skill memory (for example, the type of memory used in learning to play a musical instrument or learning sports) have provided a more refined picture. We have found that after a new memory is formed, it is initially vulnerable and susceptible to being lost, but across initial periods of time while a person is awake (somewhere in the region of six hours), the memory becomes more stable and less vulnerable...
...argument for sticking with regular music classes. Except that in most cases, there are no regular music classes. Sixty percent of students in grades K through 12 in the U.S. get no music at all in school, according to the Music Education Coalition, a group made up of instrument makers and music teachers. There are several for-profit programs that give lessons in rock music, including one that claims to have inspired the Jack Black movie. But Little Kids Rock's national scope and nonprofit status make it unique. Wish, more pedagogue than punk when class is out, makes...
...already got digital music files like MP3s and digital music players like the iPod, so why not create music with a digital instrument in the first place? In January, Gibson will be the first musical-instrument maker to release an electric guitar with a digitizing microprocessor and circuit board built right in. When a player strums the guitar, the analog signal from each of the six strings is converted into a digital file and then pushed out of the guitar through an Ethernet connection attached to the instrument. The resulting sound is much clearer and less susceptible to all sorts...