Chromatic Digital
Chromatic Digital
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Apart from many features that are to be compared while purchasing a digital camera, the image quality is one of the most significant features that should be considered.
Over the last two decades digital camera has been one of the most coveted gadgets for the techno-savvy individuals. With the declining prices of various digital camera models, the gadget is now not beyond the reach of common man. But, still there are various confusions associated with purchasing a digital camera. Although you can find numerous articles on comparing the prices and features of the digital cameras that are helpful for the novice users of the gadgets, there are very few tips available for the experienced users who want to update with the recent technologies of the camera.
Apart from the features, size and weight of the device, the image quality is another aspect that influences the decision of the buyers. Some of the major aspects of the image quality are discussed below.
Image quality on the a digital camera LCD:
The most practical reason why people are opting for a digital camera is the image quality. However, all digital cameras are not able to produce the equal image quality. Hence, while purchasing the gadget you must remember that image quality differ for all brands of cameras. The LCD monitors of the cameras are not the yardstick to judge the picture as the contrast and color on the LCD are rarely accurate. The real assessment of the image can be done when the pictures are transferred to a computer. For that you can take a memory card to the store and collect some images with the camera that you want to won and see them on your computer screen.
You can also visit the sites that offer reviews on the digital camera models where they post full-resolution image from the unit. While evaluating an image think about the final output of the image.
Color in the picture:
Color is the most prominent part of image quality and it plays a crucial role in the image. Hence, it is the best idea to know about whether the digital camera has any color tendency. Color casts, bad white balance, chromatic aberration, inaccurate colors are some of the color issues with digital cameras. Problems like chromatic aberration are not visible in the print and not difficult to remove but removing a bad white balance is bit difficult. Most digital cameras come with automatic or manual bad white balance. So, while evaluating the image quality give a special attention to the color reproduction.
Exposure to difficult lighting:
While analyzing the image quality, one of the most important you need to judge is the performance of the digital camera in difficult lighting situations. Look at the images taken in low light, with flash and in mixed lighting with lots of dark and bright in the scene. These days, the cameras are available with good light meters. If you are a skilled photographer you can adjust your images in the adverse lighting situations.
Sharpness of the image:
The sharpness of the picture depends on several factors such as camera resolutions, camera lens and the built-in sharpening routines of the camera. However, assessing the detail in an image is a tricky thing. Unless you compare the images of the same scene taken with different cameras you can't compare the sharpness of the images. It is the sharpness that greatly affects the quality of the images and you should pick the digital camera that produces images with different degrees of sharpening.
Basically, you find satisfactory result from digital cameras when the image quality is considered. Still some cameras can produce better images in terms of sharpness and in difficult lighting conditions. But it can't be denied that the image quality is also dependent on the quality of the cameras. While comparing the digital camera images make sure that you compare the cameras that are comparable with their features and prices.
Should I ask for a ipod nano chromatic or a camera for christmas?
Okay I'm trying to make my christmas list and i can't decide which one i should get
I already have a 2nd generation ipod and a digital camera but it's kinda my mom's..
which one should i ask for?
kk... Sell your iPod 2nd gen on ebay or something and ask for a new one... then you can put the money towards the new one or keep it or something... and as for the camera... is it a necessity? you have your mums so just make do...
Chromatic Violin
Chromatic Violin
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AN ANALYSIS OF A SCHOENBERG’S PIECE OP. 08, AS IT RELATES TO THE 20TH CENTURY
In the Twentieth century, music is being said to help even to cure human illnesses (soul and body), and the effects it provokes in animals and plants are already proved with evidences. So, the importance of music nowadays does not need to be commented here, in terms of importance, but observed. Preferences are and if one wants to observe those musicians who made contemporary music, his/her aim has to be more specific.
Maybe the choice of one of the presented musicians in Rowell’s rential work Thinking about Music (246), is a good starting point. What criteria should be used to select only one of them? Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) was chosen mainly because his material is avaluable, and his selected piece to be commented is Op. 08 (Schoenberg’s acceleration away from post-Wagnerian tonal orbits is most evident (Fanning 1981)).
Arnold Schoenberg has exercised very considerable influence over the course of music in the 20th century, particularly through his development and promulgation of theories of composition in which unity in a work is provided by the use of a determined series, usually consisting of the twelve possible different semitones, their order also inverted or taken in retrograde form, and in transposed versions.
As Rowell comments, “...The teleological world of linear time, in which music is conceived and perceived as direct motion, is our most familiar model, as in most music of Bartók, Berg, Britten, Copland, Hindemith, Prokofiev, and Shoenberg. Many of the traditional assumptions about time remain valid for this repertoire, particularly so for those works organized by the principle of tonality”(246).
In this sense, one has to concentrate his/her attention to Arnold Schoenberg’s life and career to better understand his music in contemporary context. In 1933, shortly before his 60th birthday, Arnold Schoenberg, one of the most important composers in history, was forced to flee his native Europe due to the increasing Nazi terror. Also composed in America, but perhaps more recognizably Schoenbergian in style are his String Quartet No. 4 (1936), Violin Concerto (1935-36), and Piano Concerto (1942). But Op.08, is said to be finished in 1909, in a manuscript which contains a note of Schoenberg: “I completed the half-hour music of my opera Erwartung in 14(sic) days.” And his reasons can be understood because at this time he was going through emotional crisis, which could be observed, in his music (Fanning1981).“Schoenberg was a late Wagnerian, persecutor of Mahler and Richard Strauss. The name Shoenberg is inextricably linked in most people's minds with serialism and The Second Viennese School. However, a number of the works he wrote during his "American" period are quite different in flavor. They embrace a return, in varying degrees, to "tonality," for they use within their serial structures triadic elements and tonal implications. The Chamber Symphony No. 2 (1939) integrates the warm, rich harmonies of late Romanticism with transparent textures and a rhythmically lively, almost neo-classic spirit.”
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Fanning explains that “just as the Expressionist ethos in drama and painting stripped away convention to reveal undreamt-of naked passions, and distortions caused by imposed patterns of behavior and thought, so in music at a time when atonality was still a direct analogue and symbol for heightened emotion” (1981). Nothing is more contemporary than these feelings! And Fanning ends his comments in the introduction to the notebook of the record Erwartung 6 lieder Op. 08, by saying that Schoenberg was on the point of following those new paths which would lead him far beyond late Romanticism (Verklärte Nacht (1899). It became saturated because of decadence of German culture in 1920 and 1930.
Schoenberg can be considered an exception of this context, not only because of the clarity of texture and depth of expression, getting his music more comprehensible, with unusual substance and distinction (Beazlei 809), but also because he is transformed from late-romantic into expressionist. The recent American immigrant looks back to his romantic roots, forging a new almost classical style, and Chamber Symphonies became a landmark in recordings of twentieth-century music. (Beazlei 810).
Once his origins were exposed, a concentration on Opus no. 08 should be more proper. “Erwartung (Ger), as it was called, means Expectation). It is a monodrama (i.e. stage piece for one character), composed by Schoenberg in 1909, but not performed until 1924. In it a woman going to meet her lover finds his dead body.”
One can be curious about the lyrics of “Expectation”, and a presentation of the final content let one observes the obvious romantic features as the following lines demonstrate: “... Love floats through the air, to catch up with my beloved, far away, go forth, beyond mountain and chasm! And she shall yet again be mine!”
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Expectation provokes exactly what the name suggests. It has an extraordinary interpretation of a singer (not nominated in the record), and nice music, but a little bit controvert. It starts and ends calmly, but it goes up and down in the middle. The impression that death is part of the story, besides the depressive way the lyrics are interpreted is really felt. “Arnold Schoenberg's Erwartung is perhaps less ambitious than his (unfinished) “Moses und Aron”. This short one act work (the running time is considerably less than one hour) packs a greater dramatic punch than many of its more famous (and longer) rivals. An unnamed woman wanders alone in a wood, stumbles over a dead body at night, and gradually discovers the corpse is her deserted lover. Who was the murderer? Was it the woman herself? A work of the German expressionist movement, it is both.”
Júlio Medaglia explains in his article “Even Freud doesn’t explain” printed in the newspaper “Folha de S. Paulo-BR from 07/12//2001, E-8,” Schoenberg’s greatest conquest was his non-conventional music. Hitler did not like him. Schoenberg was Jewish. He also contributed with some concepts about unconscious. Freud has brought a dark universe of unconscious to clarity (the cure). Schoenberg has developed the romantic idea of emotional representation and subjectivity of his last pieces in Arts to the last consequences. He had the power to make all human anxieties come through anyone’s mouth with melodramas like Erwartung, and Pierrot Lunaire, by the use of atonal dissonance, which did not have relations with the linear and sweet harmony of Romanticism. But after experimenting expressionism, he projects himself to constructivism based on inexistence of the occasional. He is the inventor of a new language, which was called dodecaphony. Sounds and/or non-sounds, are like words said and/or non-said, cultural symbol produced or being produced, which reception and interpretation is conditioned because they correspond and/or not to the conscious and/or unconscious of the listener/reader. This is the context in which dodecaphonic musical expression is revealed with the psychological narrative of a dream or nightmare in which the patient writes/speak and/or does not write/speak about cultural symbols that are and/or will be meaningful for his/her personality.
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In accordance with Lauro Machado Coelho, in his article “The Dodecaphonic Revolution of Arnold Schoenberg” (Folha de São Paulo-BR, 07/08/2001),
Schoenberg has opened new ways to musical aesthetics, but he did not want to be a revolutionary. Schoenberg demanded creativity and imagination from his pupils especially two talented ones, called Berg and Webern. From 1907-1908, and in “Buch der hängenden Gärten op. 15,” with poems of Stefan George, he completely abandoned the concept of tonality. One year after this “Erwartung” became a milestone in music expressionist influence. His wife Mathilde got involved with Richard Gerstl, his painting teacher, who committed suicide after Mathilde, agreed to come back home. She died in 1923, and Schoenberg got married with Gertrude.
The ideas about “extensive tonality” and “emancipation of dissonance”, that Schoenberg has expressed in his pieces, like style and idea, weren’t very accepted by the audience and inspired violent reactions like those ones of Julius Korngold, being his declared enemy. Schoenberg also got irritated with regents like Wilhelm Furtwängler because there was no program for his plays. Nazi authorities were also against him because his music was considered degenerated. And they wanted to banish them from Germany.
It is time now to remember the importance of Arnold Schoenberg in the history of music - not to evaluate the future of his inheritance. One can observe that like the shadow of Wagner stays on until the end of Nineteenth century, and the consecration of Stravinsky is a milestone of the revolution right at the beginning of Twentieth century. Until the 50s/60s,one can name the Schoenberg’s New Era and dodecaphony.
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Music has been presented as a manifestation of feelings, represented in notes, combined with voice(s), but over everything, it sums up the deep necessity to enrich humans’ existence, and sublimate many other features of one’s identity, cultural background, emotions, and mainly the artistic devotion, which is not common to all of us. Contemplation also demands sensibility to recognize the effort of those who interpret this art. And preferences and social pression are considered normal in humans’ society.
Dodecaphonic music and logical consequence that is a “serial” music - written from chosen series in accordance with twelve notes of a chromatic scale, so that none of them could be observed over anyone – only became firmly imposed during the 50s, becoming a starting point for music totally organized of other composers like Olivier Messiaen, Milton Babbit or Pierre Boulez, in which the dynamism, instrumental color, and pauses are seriously established. But the beginning was turbulent.
Schoenberg resisted to all these pression and the triumph of his music got up to the top, after his death, when the new generation of the Twentieth century could find his music. “Schoenberg considered the aim of art and music as a manifestation and expression of human’s personality. It would be better understood if one reads his own words: “... having seen that arts mean the helping shout of those who experiment their self experiences of the destiny of the humanity... in their insights the movement of the world is, and outside is thenecessary echo of final arts.” Schoenberg means innovation, transition, and turn-taken in the context of XXth century music. Op 08, is just an example of reluctant acceptance of a musical genial creation that remained notorious resisting to time, space, and Criticism.
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Works Cited
Beazley Mitchell, Gramophone Classical, Good CD Guide, B&W,UK, 1997.
Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, New York:
Modern Language Association, USA, 1988.
Rowell, Lewis. Thinking about Music, The University of Massachusetts Press, USA, 1983.
Fanning, David. Schoenberg Erwartung, 6 lieder Op. 08, The Decca Record Company,
London, England, 1981.
Appendix
Schoenberg’s words translated from Spanish to English by Antônio Cunha (11/06/2002).
“...«puesto que el arte es el grito de socorro de quienes experimentan en sí mismos el destino de la humanidad... interiormente, en ellos está contenido el movimiento del mundo; hacia afuera se abre paso sólo el eco: la obra de arte» Arnold Schoenberg. (See MSN. Schoenberg, October 01st, 2002. http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/1577/schonb.html)
Poll while I'm waiting for my toenails to dry....:]?
1.What color are you nails/toenails?
2.What are you doing tonight?
3.What was the last thing you ate?
4.How much do you weigh? (I was tempted [; )
5.What is your current favorite song?
6.What was the last letter you got?
7.What is the #1 thing you want for Christmas?
8.How long is your hair?
9.Do you play an instrument? (If so, what, and how well?)
10.Who is at home with you right now?
My Answers...
1.Nails are natural, and toes are drying white. :]
2.I'm going to my friends dance recital and then McDonald's
3.Sea Salt Chips
4.102 pounds (and i'm 5'0'')
5.Dead!
6.A Christmas card from my Aunt
7.A new I-pod nano chromatic (I have the old nano)
8.A few inches past my shoulders
9.I have played guitar, piano, and violin, but gave up. :] Lol
10.My sister, Laura.
1black and natural
2nothing ):
3NACHOS!
4umm, somewhere around 100, not sure exactly. XD
5I don't know! too many songs!
6Xmas card
7iPod classic
8same as you rachel!
9used to play clarinet, but i hated it. 
10my bro and sis
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How to Tune a Violin With Ease
If you are wanting to know how to tune a violin it can seem like a very difficult task, especially if you are not musical or have only just started playing the violin and your ears have not developed into those of an experienced musician yet.
There are several different ways you can tune a violin, but in this article I'm going to give you a little known secret technique that is hardly used by any string players, yet is used all the time by guitarists.
To get your instruments strings to the perfect pitch you can simply use a guitar tuner. This is a small electronic device that picks up the sound of a note and then indicates whether that note is too flat or to sharp.
I think many people do not use this method because they think it only works on a guitar but the device has a small and sensitive microphone that will pick up the sound of a violin, piano, trumpet, clarinet, guitar and many, many other instruments.
There are lots of different guitar tuners available in all good music shops. Any guitar tuner will do the job well, but the more expensive ones are the best. The most high-tech guitar tuners actually work through vibration. You can clip the device onto the head of your violin, then pluck the string you wish to tune and the tuner knows which string it is automatically, then telling you to tighten or loosen the string.
Some of the more basic guitar tuners require you to select the string on the device first. Thus letting the device know which string is in question. You will see six strings on a guitar tuner E, A, D, G, B, E. For the violin this is fine to as you need four of the 6 G, D, A, E.
When you are learning how to tune a violin it may be a good idea to take your violin to a music shop when you are purchasing your guitar tuner and ask someone experienced to demonstrate this technique to you.
How do I record clips from DVDs and burn them into computer files?
I see movie clips that people upload on youtube all the time, is there any way I can burn movie clips onto my laptop without having a TV tuner card or other external hardware? I have a DVD player and burner on my laptop. How do I record a small clip?
your question is not clear... if you want to record some movie from DVD you must use some ripping programs....
if you want to record youtube files to DVD ... it is little bit different. when you open a movie on youtube this files coming to
" C:Documents and Settings********Local SettingsTemporary Internet Files"
you can copy that files from here they are flash movie files... you need them to convert avi or mpg then you can burn them to DVD disk...
Digital Chromatic
Digital Chromatic
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Nikon D300 (Body) Digital SLR Camera
Nikon D300 (Body) Digital SLR Camera
12.3 Megapixel , high-performance package
Nikon Corporation is pleased to announce the introduction of the new DX-format digital SLR, Nikon D300.
Combining innovative Nikon technologies with advanced new features and precision engineering, the D300 delivers the ultimate blend of DX-format performance.
The sheer imaging power of a new 12.3 effective-megapixel DX Format CMOS image sensor with integrated A/D converter; the precision processing and astounding speed of Nikon's original EXPEED digital image processing concept; the unprecedented focusing speed and precision of a new 51-point AF system; Nikon's innovative new Scene Recognition System for optimal autofocus, auto exposure and auto white balance performance; the composition and focusing ease of a large new pentaprism viewfinder that provides full 100% frame coverage; an expansive 920,000-dot, high-resolution 3-inch LCD monitor with wide viewing angle; near-instant power-up and immediate response; all with the advantages of Nikon DX-format agility and system expandability. Meet the new generation digital SLR camera that blends all these advanced features into one fine package – the Nikon D300.
Major Features of the Nikon D300 (Body)
New DX-format CMOS image sensor with 12.3 effective megapixels
The D300 features a new 12.3 effective megapixel DX-format CMOS image sensor. It not only produces fine details with sharp resolution, but also provides a broad light sensitivity range of ISO 200 to ISO 3200, (plus LO 1 for IS0 100 equivalent and HI 1 for IS0 6400 equivalent settings; Auto ISO control is also available). The CMOS sensor's integrated A/D converter features the ability to select between 12-bit and 14-bit conversion, making it possible to shoot using high-quality 14-bit NEF (RAW) format. All internal processing is handled in full 16-bit color, color, benefiting from a fine balance between performance with outstanding speed that defies this level of precision and natural-looking images that benefit from faithful color and tone reproduction. Lateral chromatic aberration is also reduced.
See complete details with images at
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What is the best digital camera (image quality)?
In your opinion, what digital camera/lens combination gives the best image quality?
(I'm talking about image quality alone. Not flexibility, response, ergonomics, speed, or price)
Disregard if it has no autofocus and if it is very big and heavy.
What digital camera/lens combination offers the best color reproduction, sharpest image detail, lowest noise, least vignetting, and least chromatic abberation?
You start spending between $200 and $300- ya can't see the difference if any between Canon, Sony, and Fuji.
Chromatic Bass
Chromatic Bass
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How To Play Guitar Scales And Guitar Solos?
Howdy!
In this guitar lesson I will continue to teach you how to play guitar scales and guitar solos. all of you who want to play guitar in high speed and become a pro level guitarist, you should follow the instructions given in this article.
First off, look at the figure#1 below:
This exercise is little bit boring to practice but this would give training to your left and right hands to ordinate with each other simultaneously. So lets start now!
Important Note: As mentioned in earlier guitar lessons, you have to stick to the alternate picking method in order to achieve maximum results.So, keep continuing it.
Following is a chromatic sequence:
^ = (This symbol represents a down-stroke)
V = (This symbol represents an upstroke)
^ V ^ V ^ V ^ V
Here goes the exercise:
e-1--2--3--4----2--3--4--5----3--4--5--6----4--5--6--7---
B------------------------------------------------------------------
G------------------------------------------------------------------
D------------------------------------------------------------------
A------------------------------------------------------------------
E------------------------------------------------------------------
e-8--9--10--11----12--11--10--9----11--10--9--8---------
B------------------------------------------------------------------
G------------------------------------------------------------------
D------------------------------------------------------------------
A------------------------------------------------------------------
E------------------------------------------------------------------
After you are done with the above given exercise, continue with the Figure#2:
This one has been played in billions of solos.
e-7--4--0----7--4--0----8--5--0----8--5--0----12--8--0---
B------------------------------------------------------------------
G------------------------------------------------------------------
D------------------------------------------------------------------
A------------------------------------------------------------------
E------------------------------------------------------------------
e-12--8--0----10--7--0----10--7--0----8--5--0----8--5--0
B------------------------------------------------------------------
G------------------------------------------------------------------
D------------------------------------------------------------------
A------------------------------------------------------------------
E------------------------------------------------------------------
The art of guitar solos and guitar scales is all about practice, practice and practice. You cant get speed just by spending some time on your guitar, you really have to practice different scales on daily basis in order to obtain good speed guitar playing.
Thus, the key is play all the notes slowly, and then gradually increase your speed. The use of a metronome is essential if you want to play guitar solos and guitar scales in different speeds/tempos.
For more guitar chords, guitar scales and guitar technique lessons visit Guitar grenade website here
Happy learning!
Why in each mode of tuner a different note is shown on screen?
Hi, My tuner has 4 modes "Guitar" "Bass" "Violin" and " chromatic"
For my instrument I use "chromatic" mode.It shows number of octave in "violin" , "guitar" and "bass" mode. but only when its mode is "chromatic" it shows no number of octave and just for example C and not C3.
And in each mode a different note is shown on screen.
Why in each mode a different note is shown on screen?
thanks a lot
Modes: Because the instruments have a limited range, and tuning is accomplished by open strings
• Guitar: E A D G B E
• Bass: E A D G (an octave lower than guitar)
• Violin: G D A E
In chromatic mode why it doesn't display A0-C8 is a question for the manufacturer. It probably has to do with either the electronics to drive the display or that the tuner uses the fundamentals and harmonic series, especially the first node (octave), to determine the note that is being played.