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The ___MASK86___ ( U - M , UM , UMich , or U of M ), frequently referred to simply as " Michigan ," is a public research university in Ann Arbor , Michigan , United States . Founded in 1817 in Detroit as the " Catholepistemiad ", or University of Michigania , 20 years before the Michigan Territory became a state , the ___MASK86___ is the state ' s oldest university . In 1821 , the university was officially renamed the ___MASK86___ . It moved to Ann Arbor in 1837 onto of what is now known as Central Campus . Since its establishment in Ann Arbor , the university campus has expanded to include more than 584 major buildings with a combined area of more than spread out over a Central Campus and North Campus , two satellite campuses in Flint and Dearborn , and a Center in Detroit . The University was a founding member of the Association of American Universities . Barry Vercoe is a New Zealand - born computer scientist and composer . He completed his undergraduate degree in New Zealand in Music and Mathematics and went on to complete a Ph . D . at the ___MASK86___ , USA , in Music Composition . In 1968 , Vercoe ' s research in Digital Audio Processing paved the way for the subsequent evolution of digital musical composition . In 1971 , he joined the faculty at MIT and established the Experimental Music facility in 1973 . Vercoe was a founding member of the MIT Media Lab in 1984 . He continues to this day at the laboratory as a professor of Music and Media Arts and as an Associate Head of the Academic program in Media , Arts and Sciences . Notable students include Susan Frykberg and Miller Puckette . He is best known as the inventor of Csound , a music synthesis language with wide usage among computer music composers . SAOL , the underlying language for the MPEG - 4 Structured Audio standard , is also historically derived from Csound . He is also an accomplished jazz musician . A composer ( Latin " compn "; literally " one who puts together ") is a person who creates or writes music , which can be vocal music ( for a singer or choir ), instrumental music ( e . g ., for solo piano , string quartet , wind quintet or orchestra ) or music which combines both instruments and voices ( e . g ., opera or art song , which is a singer accompanied by a pianist ). The core meaning of the term refers to individuals who have contributed to the tradition of Western classical music through creation of works expressed in written musical notation ( e . g ., sheet music scores ). Music notation or musical notation is any system used to visually represent aurally perceived music played with instruments or sung by the human voice through the use of written , printed , or otherwise - produced symbols , including ancient symbols or modern musical symbols and including ancient symbols cut into stone , made in clay tablets or made using a pen on papyrus , parchment or manuscript paper ; printed using a printing press ( ca . 1400s ), a computer printer ( ca . 1980s ) or other printing or modern copying technology . Types and methods of notation have varied between cultures and throughout history , and much information about ancient music notation is fragmentary . Even in the same ___MASK17___ period , such as in the 2010s , different styles of music and different cultures use different music notation methods ; for example , for professional classical music performers , sheet music using staves and note heads is the most common way of notating music , but for professional country music session musicians , the Nashville Number System is the main method . The Territory of Michigan was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from June 30 , 1805 , until January 26 , 1837 , when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Michigan . Detroit was the territorial ___MASK88___ . Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western music , including both liturgical ( religious ) and secular music . While a more accurate term is also used to refer to the period from 1750 to 1820 ( the Classical period ), this article is about the broad span of ___MASK17___ from roughly the 11th century to the present day , which includes the Classical period and various other periods . The central norms of this tradition became codified between 1550 and 1900 , which is known as the common - practice period . The major ___MASK17___ divisions of Western art music are as follows : European art music is largely distinguished from many other non - European and some popular musical forms by its system of staff notation , in use since about the 16th century . Western staff notation is used by composers to indicate to the performer the pitches ( e . g ., melodies , basslines , chords ), tempo , meter and rhythms for a piece of music . This can leave less room for practices such as improvisation and " ad libitum " ornamentation , which are frequently heard in non - European art music and in popular - music styles such as jazz and blues . Another difference is that whereas most popular styles adopt the song ( strophic ) form , classical music has been noted for its development of highly sophisticated forms of instrumental music such as the concerto , symphony , sonata , and mixed vocal and instrumental styles such as opera which , since they are written down , can sustain larger forms and attain a high level of complexity . The ___MASK53___ ( MIT ) is a private research university in Cambridge , Massachusetts . Founded in 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States , MIT adopted a European polytechnic university model and stressed laboratory instruction in applied science and engineering . Researchers worked on computers , radar , and inertial guidance during World War II and the Cold War . Post - war defense research contributed to the rapid expansion of the faculty and campus under James Killian . The current campus opened in 1916 and extends over along the northern bank of the Charles River basin . The Association of American Universities ( AAU ) is an international organization of leading research universities devoted to maintaining a strong system of academic research and education . It consists of 60 universities in the United States ( both public and private ) and two universities in ___MASK91___ . Miller Smith Puckette ( born 1959 ) is the associate director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts as well as a ___MASK64___ of music at the ___MASK57___ , San Diego , where he has been since 1994 . Puckette is known for authoring Max , a graphical development environment for music and multimedia synthesis , which he developed while working at IRCAM in the late 1980s . He is also the author of Pure Data ( Pd ), a real - time performing platform for audio , video and graphical programming language for the creation of interactive computer music and multimedia works , written in the 1990s with input from many others in the computer music and free software communities . The piano is an acoustic , stringed musical instrument , in which the strings are struck by hammers . It is played using a keyboard , which is a row of keys ( small levers ) that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings . Invented in about 1700 ( the exact year is uncertain ), the piano is widely employed in classical , jazz , traditional and popular music for solo and ensemble performances , accompaniment , and for composing , songwriting and rehearsals . Although the piano is very heavy and thus not portable and is expensive ( in comparison with other widely used accompaniment instruments , such as the acoustic guitar ), its musical versatility ( i . e ., its wide pitch range , ability to play chords with up to 10 notes , louder or softer notes and two or more independent musical lines at the same ___MASK17___ ), the large number of musicians and amateurs trained in playing it , and its wide availability in performance venues , schools and rehearsal spaces have made it one of the Western world ' s most familiar musical instruments . Detroit is the most populous city in the U . S . state of Michigan , the fourth - largest city in the Midwest and the largest city on the United States  ___MASK91___ border . It is the seat of Wayne County , the most populous county in the state . The ___MASK57___ , San Diego ( also referred to as UC San Diego or UCSD ) is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego , California , in the United States . The university occupies near the coast of the Pacific Ocean with the main campus resting on approximately . Established in 1960 near the pre - existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography , UC San Diego is the seventh oldest of the 10 ___MASK57___ campuses and offers over 200 undergraduate and graduate degree programs , enrolling about 22 , 700 undergraduate and 6 , 300 graduate students . Music is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound and silence , which exist in ___MASK17___ . The common elements of music are pitch ( which governs melody and harmony ), rhythm ( and its associated concepts tempo , meter , and articulation ), dynamics ( loudness and softness ), and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ( which are sometimes termed the " color " of a musical sound ). Different styles or types of music may emphasize , de - emphasize or omit some of these elements . Music is performed with a vast range of instruments and vocal techniques ranging from singing to rapping ; there are solely instrumental pieces , solely vocal pieces ( such as songs without instrumental accompaniment ) and pieces that combine singing and instruments . The word derives from Greek  (" mousike "; " art of the Muses "). In its most general form , the activities describing music as an art form include the production of works of music ( songs , tunes , symphonies , and so on ), the criticism of music , the study of the history of music , and the aesthetic examination of music . Ancient Greek and Indian philosophers defined music as tones ordered horizontally as melodies and vertically as harmonies . Common sayings such as " the harmony of the spheres " and " it is music to my ears " point to the notion that music is often ordered and pleasant to listen to . However , 20th - century composer John Cage thought that any sound can be music , saying , for example , " There is no noise , only sound ." The MIT Media Lab is an interdisciplinary research laboratory at the ___MASK53___ devoted to projects at the convergence of technology , multimedia , sciences , art and design . Staff and students have backgrounds ranging from electrical engineering and computer science to sociology and music and others . The Media Lab has been widely popularized since the 1990s by business and technology publications such as " Wired " and " Red Herring " for a series of practical inventions in the fields of wireless networks , field sensing , web browsers and the World Wide Web . , it has diversified its research into neurobiology , biologically inspired fabrication , socially engaging robots , emotive computing , bionics , and hyperinstruments . The One Laptop per Child ( OLPC ) was one of the notable research efforts which grew out of the Media Lab .