The harmony is a musical element based on the simultaneous combination of the musical tonalities (as distinguished from the consecutive tonalities of a melody), or the accompaniment of a melody by using cords. A combination of three tonalities or more, played simultaneously and perceived as resounding as a whole is called a cord. Some rudimentary principles will help you to include/understand the nature of the conventional construction of cord. The simplest cord is the principal triad, which is composed of three tonalities.

As good as it is, the Sonos music system got a little bit better today with the unveiling of a variety of upgrades and a new, free iPhone application.

Gisborne teacher and music tutor Stephen Shone has been sent to prison for 8-1/2 years for sex offences against five of his teenage pupils. Shone, 30, appeared for sentence in Gisborne District Court on Tuesday after being convicted in August at a trial held in Napier.

Canada on Monday extended music royalties to the Internet in a move that will encompass commercial TV and radio station websites, electronic gaming sites and online radio stations.

So Hilary Duff is still making new music. Well, sort ofshe’s really just making a couple of new songs for a greatest-hits album. And yes, she has some hits. Remember the Laguna Beach…

The Bismarck-Mandan Northern Lights Chorus, one of the more than 800 chapters of the Barbershop Harmony Society, is sponsoring a gospel music concert at 4 p.m. Sunday at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church.

It’s “better late than never” for Viacom’s new music video hub. The real question: whether people will go here instead of Google’s YouTube to watch them.

Nintendos Wii Music invites players to pick up their wireless remotes and strum, toot, bang and drum their way through improvisational jam sessions using more than 60 virtual instruments on which there can be no wrong notes, no mistakes.

Math is from Mars, music is from Venus. That’s the popular wisdom. Math is crisp, dry discipline best reserved for professionals with pocket protectors. Music seems the antithesis of those facts and figures - an escape into a world of adagios and allegros and occasional kick-butt guitar solos.

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MySpace announced a partnership with digital music distribution company IODA on Thursday that will bring more than one million songs from independent artists to the recently launched MySpace Music.

When MySpace rolled out its new music service last month, some of the most prominent independent record labels withheld their artists because they believed the social network was treating them unfairly. That was a public relations nightmare for MySpace which touts itself a champion of “indie” bands.

Stephen Rehage lost thousands of dollars in the making of the first New Orleans Voodoo Experience, the outdoor music festival he first produced in 1999 that only drew about 8,000 people.

A month after irking part of the independent recording community by launching its online music service mostly with major labels, MySpace Music has made a deal to almost double the amount of indie tunes available through the service.

For the first day of my annual peregrination through the CMJ Music Marathon, I let blogs pick my music.

Music site Lala.com has re-launched itself yet again , this time in partnership with the major music labels offering 10 cent music purchases, social networking, and DRM-free music downloads. The service has struggled in the past to click with users launching at first as a CD swapping service and…

Now you can listen to indie songs before Steve Jobs puts them in a commercial. MySpace Music has signed a deal with digital music distributor IODA that will see over a million indie tracks on the social net’s site, LAT reports.

A former Melbourne music teacher who kept handwritten notes on how to seduce young boys and how to avoid arrest has been jailed.

For the first day of my annual peregrination through the CMJ Music Marathon, I let blogs pick my music.

The upstart music service chugs along signing distributors but no word yet from Merlin, the licensing group for 12,000 indie labels. MySpace Music still has a ways to go.

In honor of the iPod’s seventh birthday , we’re asking readers to submit photos of their favorite portable music players, new and old. Have a clunky old Walkman lying around? An off-brand iPod wannabe that you love? Shoot a photo of it and share it with us. Use the Reddit widget below to submit your best portable music player photo and vote for your favorite among the other submissions. If …

Stock music marketplace AudioMicro has closed its first round of financing from DFJ Frontier. The LA-based company will use the undisclosed amount to improve its offerings and content, as well as for working capital.

Neil Diamond will be the honoree at the music industry’s annual MusiCares fundraiser, which will take place in Los Angeles on February 6, two days before the Grammy Awards, organizers said.

Sam Gustin writes: The digital music space has always been tough. Now, thanks to increased copyright pressures combined with diminishing funding sources, it’s become downright intolerable, with companies facing layoffs, and even sale options.The latest potential casualty is imeem, the popular music-based social network.

The Elders are headlining a benefit Friday for the music ministry at Visitation Church, 5141 Main St. It starts at 5:30 p.m. in the church’s parking lot. Flannigan’s Right Hook will perform until 7:30 p.m. Then the Elders will perform from 8 to 11 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the gate. Food and drinks will be available for purchase. Advance tickets are available at www. …

The Ramona Bowl Music Association is looking for a little help from its friends — and some former “American Idol” contestants. The nonprofit group, which produces the summer concerts at the Ramona Bowl amphitheatre, is having a fundraiser Friday night that will benefit the 2009 season.

The Thornton School of Music bucks ivory tower convention with a program for rock, R & B and more. USC’s Thornton School of Music will make room starting next year for singers and instrumentalists who play pop music, breaking a long-standing tradition in higher education that requires students to dedicate themselves either to classical music or jazz.

The beat goes on in the thriving music video game category. New editions of the hot-selling Guitar Hero and Rock Band are in stores or on the way, as is a new music maker: Wii Music for the still wildly sought-after Nintendo game system.

Nintendo’s “Wii Music” invites players to pick up their wireless remotes and strum, toot, bang and drum their way through improvisational jam sessions using more than 60 virtual instruments on which there can be no wrong notes, no mistakes.

The Thornton School of Music bucks ivory tower convention with a program for rock, R & B and more. USC’s Thornton School of Music will make room starting next year for singers and instrumentalists who play pop music, breaking a long-standing tradition in higher education that requires students to dedicate themselves either to classical music or jazz.

By SUSAN SCHROCK ARLINGTON Babes Chicken Dinner House could open in downtown Arlington as early as June, along with the expansion of the Arlington Music Hall. This year, Hurst developer Burk Collins received a $1.8 million tax incentive from Arlington for the first phase of his planned $30 million Center Street Station project, which includes office, retail and residential space at Division …

By CHRIS SHULL Violinist Midori is no longer the teenage phenomenon who vaulted to classical music stardom in the mid-1980s. Like a precocious grandchild who grew up where did the time fly? Midori today is a consummate artist and prolific overachiever. She has degrees in psychology. Shes a violin professor and chair of the strings department at the University of Southern California in Los …

Semitic music of the Jewish persuasion has gotten more than its share of attention from the avant-jazz scene. Projects like Hasidic New Wave, John Zorn’s Masada, and countless others, have made Eastern European shtetl harmonies and Americanized klezmer into practically a marker of the “downtown”…

Collections of performance reviews, whether of music or theatre, suffer a fatal weakness: their moment belongs to the period very shortly after the performance itself, and thereafter they quickly date. Only the historians of performance, or the biographers of performers, find old reviews interesting apart from the performers themselves, who usually remember their bad reviews best, for such …

The Roundabout Theatre Company will present a one-night-only gala concert reading of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Tony Award-winning A Little Night Music Jan. 12, 2009, at the Nokia Theatre Times Square.

Britons who have only ever used Apple’s iTunes to buy digital music suddenly have a new and attractive toy: a Nokia mobile music service which offers thousands of tracks for free.

More than 7,000 runners who raced earlier this month in a half-marathon in London were under the influence of a scientifically derived and powerful performance-enhancing stimulant - pop music.

Nokia’s digital music strategy, including its subscription music service and a la carte stores, will be the strongest challenger to Apple’s iTunes to date. Wired.com

Elementary students in the Wilkinsburg School District are singing and playing a new tune thanks to a $90,000 grant from VH1’s Save The Music Foundation, Houlihan’s and Comcast.

Vanessa Redgrave and Natasha Richardson, mother and daughter, will play mother and daughter in a one-night concert version of A Little Night Music, the Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler musical.

Alicia Keys had a leading five nominations for the 2008 American Music Awards, including artist of the year and favorite female artist in both the pop/rock and soul/R&B categories.

Alicia Keys and Coldplay lead the nominees for the 2008 American Music Awards. Keys has five nominations and Coldplay has four.

R&B singer Alicia Keys picked up five nominations for the American Music Awards, while rock bands Coldplay and the Eagles scored four each, organizers said on Tuesday.

The North American premiere of the recent Andrew Lloyd Webber-produced London revival of The Sound of Music opens in Toronto Oct. 15 following previews from Oct. 3.

Sound Alliance Group, an independent Australian online music publisher, has acquired Melbourne-based Mess+Noise. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Sound Alliance, which said its site has relatively little crossover with Mess+Noise’s online presence, is planning to hire a full time editor to manage the site’s existing catalog of content and help it add more. Mess+Noise co-founder Danny Bos …

The University of Kentucky’s new Chandler Medical Center will offer state-of-the-art medical treatments . including musical therapy to foster healing. The UK Board of Trustees on Tuesday accepted a $1 million gift from the Lucille Caudill Little Foundation as the first step toward a $3 million endowment to support Kentucky’s first graduate-degree program in music therapy within the UK …

15 2551 11:38 . Universal Music Group International, a division of Universal Music Group, the world’s leading music company and Qtrax, today announced a licensing deal covering Europe, Asia/Pacific, South America & Africa.

On her new album, Rebel Woman, Chiwoniso shows off an assertive style that no other female singer in Zimbabwe can match. In her songs, she stands up for her country’s children and poor. One of the most compelling voices in African music today, she confidently borrows from other genres especially American ones.

Mobile operator 3 UK is to sell Nokia’s N95 Comes With Music handset which offers unlimited music downloads, an industry source told Reuters on Tuesday.