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Technology in music production

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Main article: Music technology
See also: Computer music

− With the growing popularity of the home computer and the vast improvements in music production applications during the 21st century, home-based composers and performers are no longer limited to the facilities of designated recording studios. Though the technology was available in the 1990s, home computers were not capable of replicating the functionality of a professional production facility. At that time computer processors were slow, internal memory was small, hard disk storage capacities were limited, and data access times were too slow for serious multitrack recording work if using only a single device. Today's computer workstations have vastly improved performance capabilities, with data storage space in the region of several terabytes, processors with multiple cores, and onboard memory measured in gigabytes. Home users can now quickly and easily sample, record, and produce their own music using their own home recording studios, and promote it via the internet.

− − There are numerous types of applications involved in music production. While many will allow the user to play musical notation back via MIDI (through either external electronic instruments or internal "virtual instruments"), some of them are dedicated solely to notation, others are dedicated solely to live performance, yet others are dedicated solely to the production (i.e. recording) process itself, while a few present all these capabilities in one package. Many of these applications have capabilities to store live sound in WAV, MP3, or MP4 format (which do not involve notation) and often have functions which can transform the sound (changing the pitch, stretching the sound, merging sounds together, adding effects, and so on). Of course, there are widely used applications which are dedicated to recording sound in digital formats, and some offer these transforming functions.

Female composers

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− Although there have been women composers in earlier centuries (Hildegard of Bingen, Francesca Caccini, Clara Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn, and Amy Beach are well-known examples), the 21st century has seen an increase in their number. Roxanna Panufnik, in the aforementioned interview with the BBC, says:

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Attitudes towards women composers have changed during the past few decades. Even after women started getting careers, it took a while before they could find work as composers, but we got there in the end, thanks to role models such as Judith Weir, Nicola Lefanu [sic], and Thea Musgrave. Hip young things like Tansy Davies and Emily Hall will exert a great influence on the new music scene in the next ten years.[1]

The trend continues with such people as Panufnik, Davies, Hall, Unsuk Chin, Onutė Narbutaitė, Julia Wolfe, Jennifer Higdon, Olga Neuwirth, Rebecca Saunders, Kati Agocs and many others joining the ranks. Other notable female composers include Kinuyo Yamashita and Yoko Kanno.

Several composers of Hispanic origin have greatly enriched the repertoire of 21st. Century concert music such as Astor Piazzolla, Alberto Ginastera, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Silvestre Revueltas, Miguel del Aguila or Arturo Marquez. Many of them are among the most performed composers of the 21st. Century.

  1. ^ Panufnik quoted in Shave 2009, p. 32.
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