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Ideas AGAINST
- Before more people learned how to play an instrument. Now they would rather

rather use a computer. Glossary on
page 182
- The social component is lost with computer music, as most electronic musicians

perform alone.
- The human element is lost in computer music, since it uses electronic algorithms.
- The vocals in pop music are so computer-manipulated that the voice loses its humanity.

Remember

There are some differences between American and British variants of
English. One of them is that there are two possible ways to conjugate
the verb learn in past and past participle: learned / learnt. Both are
acceptable, but learned is used in both British English and American
English, while learnt is much more common in British English.

14. Go to your Reader’s Book, and read the extract from an online forum
about computer music and comment on which ideas are in favor of
Information in favor of or against a topic
it and which are against.
Reader's
Book pages 68-76
• Explain how you can recognize that they are for or against.
Look at the example.
Example: against, because she also
I believe it’s
Taylor Jones states that an “altered voice
Feb 17, 2018 loses its humanity”.

In my opinion, very few people can't distinguish
between a recorded traditional instrument and a
decent, today's "industry standard" computer emulation of those
instruments. On the other hand, the vocals in pop music are so
computer-manipulated and altered that the voice loses its humanity.
Some people even like the computer kind of sound in music,
session 5 music, because she says nobody sound because of that and also because they just
now everybody is exaggerating the fake quality of the
I think this is an
opinion in favor of computer
can tell the difference between
don't care enough to mimic real instruments anymore,
traditional instruments and
or even a voice, for that matter.
computer emulation.

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