Digitization of Music Technology

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Digitization of Music Technology
Introduction
Digitization in music has simplified access to music. Nowadays, CDs and DVDs are not the only mediums for listening to music. Also, access to music is not limited to visiting a store to access music. Music can be downloaded or listened to online by just connecting to the internet. This has been enabled by digital technology and high-speed internet (Mathew 117).
Formerly, music studios were tasked with the production and recording of music in studios. The music CDs and DVDs were then distributed to retails outlets. Among the renowned music outlets was Music World retail outlet. It majored in music CDs, DVDs, software, and gaming consoles. This outlet was among the earliest outlets to be opened in 1997. By 2003, this outlet had established several franchises. It had also opened approximately 40 shops in USA.it was estimated that the shops occupied approximately 50,000 square feet. However, with the emergence of digital technology in 2012, the music outlets were forced to downsize (Mathew 64).
Research Objective
The symbolic MPEG representation of music was launched to establish a general notation in the modeling of music in both visual and audio aspects in SMR. The symbolic music representations which were enabled by digital music technology included various styles of Jazz, Rock, Romantic, chant, percussion, and Pop styles. The integration of SMR into the multimedia framework of MPEG audio, video, digital, and interactivity technology was noted to cause a growth in application numbers. This paper will, therefore, look into the impact of digital technology on the form, forces, timbre, texture, harmony, poetic text, and performance practices of music.
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Impact of digital technology on music
Digital recording technology has brought the complete transformation of the sonic quality of music. This has enabled the engineers in the studio not only to capture the music. They have also been able to reproduce the music. The music listeners, on the other hand, have enjoyed music, which is clear. The dynamic range of music has also been accessible to music fans (Book 53). This technology has enabled the art of mixing music to be achieved. Consequently, the goal of enticing the emotional response from the listeners has been achieved to a great extent.
The revolution in the music industry was substantially caused by the evolution of digital communication formats and devices. This produced fundamental changes in the music notation and presentation approach. Consequently, the coding system was transformed from simple visual to a composite tool, which was applied in modeling the produced music in multimedia and computer applications. This raised the need for presenting music using a multilayer model, which was also applied for the production of sheet music.
Music modeling
Several XLM-compliant languages have been designed for music modeling. They include Music Markup language (MML), WEDELMUSIC, Music XML, and Music Notation Markup Language (MNML). These modeling tools are designed to preserve and interchange music elements.
Efforts to standardize music were undertaken using SDML and NIFF. This was undertaken as it was noted each of the modeling codes could only meet the specific needs of the digital music technology. Additionally, the coding languages were also noted to not accommodate the innovations and applications which were emerging as per the requirements of MPEG on the representation of music symbolically contained in ISO/IEC SC29WG11, W6689 document. Among the significant mileages in digital music, technology includes innovations in 3-D virtual reality, synchronizations, and complex animations.
Decoding of music
Coding and rendering technologies of audio and graphics in music are currently in the application in the music industry. SMR monitors visual and logical aspects. SMR considers the graphical, visual, logical, and audio aspects which are already in existence in MPEG. The manner in which the SMR is rendered is determined by the information available.
The integration of SMR into MPEG enables the modeling of massive rich music content. Simultaneously, several relationships are established by the SMR and music format. These relationships play a fundamental role in the composition and synchronization of music with other types of media. MPEG-4 system does carry data, which is vital in the process of configuration and synchronization.
Figure SEQ Figure \* ARABIC 1: MPEG player architecture with SMR (Kia, 2007)
Figure SEQ Figure \* ARABIC 2: MPEG decoder (Kia, 2007)
Additionally, the system contains structures of data for media streaming. This raises the possibility of encapsulating the entire data in a file format, which is adequate. MIDI facilitates the flexibility and richness of SMR. SMR decoder offers a platform that supports SA stream, which contains MIDI, as illustrated in REF _Ref26891535 \h \* MERGEFORMAT Figure 1. The music score SMR node is also applied in attaching to the scene the information on symbolic information. The sensors, in conjunction with the nodes, do enable the users to interact with the content of SMR. The architecture of SMR is well illustrated in REF _Ref26892504 \h \* MERGEFORMAT Figure 2
Music rendering
SMR information is processed via SM-XF chunks. This is achieved based on rules which are laid down for formatting to achieve the SMR desired output. Bellini et al. (2005) have discussed the laid down procedures for visual rendering algorithms and models. A rendering system is partitioned into two, justification & line breaking module ( REF _Ref26893675 \h \* MERGEFORMAT Figure 3) and insertion & par...