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Music Video: A visual representation of or accompaniment to a song or other musical selection that usually exists independently as a recording.

Personal Video Recorder (PVR): Pvrs are digital devices that use a hard drive instead of videotape as the recording medium. Pvrs blend the features of a VCR with the programmability and storage of a computer.

Musicology: The study of forms, history, science, and methods of music.

Noninterlaced Video: Each line is scanned during each total vertical (full) screen refresh. Computer monitors use typically noninterlaced video.

Program Music: Instrumental music endowed with literary or pictorial associations, especially popular in the nineteenth century.

S-Video: A video signal that employs two channels: luminance (Y: namely brightness) and chrominance (C: namely color). It is referred to as Y/C. It falls between component and composite video in term . . . View Full Definition

Quotation Music: Music that parodies another work or works, presenting them in a new style or guise.

Musical Saw: A handsaw that is bowed on its smooth edge: pitch is varied by bending the saw.

Musical Director: Person who selects and arranges the music for a program.

Music Of The Spheres: In medieval and Renaissance Europe, many scholars believed in a beautiful song created by the movement of the heavenly bodies (sun, moon, and planets). The music of spheres supposedly was in . . . View Full Definition