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2. Sampling (music) - Wikipedia

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   The term sampling was coined in the late 1970s by the creators of the Fairlight CMI, a synthesizer with the ability to record and playback short sounds. As technology improved, cheaper standalone samplers with more memory emerged, such as the E-mu Emulator, Akai S950 and Akai MPC. Sampling is a foundation of hip hop music, which emerged when ...

3. Freesound - Wikipedia

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   Freesound's logo, stylised as 'freesound'. Freesound is a collaborative repository of Creative Commons licensed audio samples, and non-profit organisation, with more than 500,000 sounds and effects (as of May 2021), [1] and 8 million registered users (as of March 2019). Sounds are uploaded to the website by its users, and cover a wide range of ...

4. Interpolation (popular music) - Wikipedia

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   In popular music, interpolation (also called a replayed sample) refers to using a melody — or portions of a melody (often with modified lyrics) — from a previously recorded song but re-recording the melody instead of directly sampling it. [1][2] Interpolation is often cited as a legal defence to mask unlicenced sampling when the artist or ...

5. Vocal music - Wikipedia

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   Vocal music. A men's chorus from the 1940s or 1950s. Vocal music is a type of singing performed by one or more singers, either with instrumental accompaniment, or without instrumental accompaniment (a cappella), in which singing provides the main focus of the piece. Music which employs singing but does not feature it prominently is generally ...

6. Pump Up the Volume (song) - Wikipedia

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   Pump Up the Volume (song) " Pump Up the Volume " is the only single by British recording act M|A|R|R|S. Recorded and released in 1987, it was a number-one hit in many countries and is regarded as a significant milestone in the development of British house music [ 1 ] and music sampling. The song derives its title directly from a lyrical sample ...

7. Public domain music - Wikipedia

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   Classical [vague] sheet music, for example, is widely available for free use and reproduction. Some more current works are also available for free use through public works projects such as Internet Archive. This and similar projects aim to preserve and make readily available thousands of public domain music files, many of which have been ...