### person | entertainer | performer:

Musician
* Many musicians also make musical instruments
  - focus on making music that generates the biggest audience or makes the most money
* More musicians play the guitar than any other single instrument in the world.
* Most musicians are animals
  - celebrate birthdays
  - compose music within one or possibly two genres
  - depend on royalties for their livelihood
  - get involved in music when they are young
  - play music
* Some musicians die at homes
  - even use two spoons as a musical instrument like a castanet
  - have a sense of 'absolute pitch' or 'perfect pitch'
  - play the piano or an organ
  - sing or conduct groups of musicians
* Some musicians use jazz as a synonym for improvisation
  - pianos
  - wear ear protection
  - work in theatres
  - write music
* are artists
  - artwork
  - athletes
  - criminals
  - guitarists
* are located in bands
  - operas
  - orchestras
  - shows
  - stages
  - studios
  - symphonies
  - tour buses
  - tours
  - magicians in Morocco, and they bear the mark of the conjurer, the magic man
  - performers
  - special people
  - teachers by nature
  - traditionally storytellers, poets, philosophers, priests, teachers and inventors
* become bands.
* build careers.
* can use their understanding of beats to tune musical instruments.
* come in all shapes and sizes.
* have a high rate of death by lung disease
  - hand knowledge
  - ranges
* help sound.
* includes arms
  - body substances
  - cells
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - heads
  - human bodies
  - legs
  - material bodies
  - necks
  - personality
  - sections
  - vacuoles
* know variation.
* live in areas
  - same areas
* often specialize in a particular kind of music or performance.
* perform popular songs
* play acoustic music
* pursue careers.
* range in age from nine to nineteen years old.
* seek careers.
* share insight
  - personal insight
* tend to learn most effectively by listening to and studying the work of other musicians.
* use their entire body to relate to the instrument and the space where they perform.
* work for organizations.
+ Charles Ives, His music: 1874 births :: 1954 deaths :: 20th century composers :: American composers :: Grammy Award winners :: Alumni of Yale University
  * That is the question that is left unanswered. Musicians often have discussions about what the real meaning of the piece is.
+ Composer
  * Some musicians are very good at improvisation. Some church organists are good at improvising. During a service they may need to play some organ music to fill in the gaps while people are collecting money or taking communion. Jazz musicians are usually excellent at improvising. Improvisation is not written down, so each time it is different.
+ Pitch (music): Sound :: Musical terminology
  * Some musicians have a sense of 'absolute pitch' or 'perfect pitch'. This means that they always know what note is being played, even without comparing it to another note. Having a sense of absolute pitch does not necessarily make someone a good musician, although it can be very useful.
+ Requiem: Christian music :: Musical forms
  * The most famous Requiem from the 18th century is the one by Mozart. Many musicians think it was one of the greatest pieces of music ever written. It was left unfinished when Mozart died.
  * Musicians can also make a group together to play songs. If the group has many people playing instruments together, like Beethoven's music, it is called an orchestra. If it is just many people singing, like in a church, it is called a choir. If it is only a few people together it is usually just called a band. Sometimes a band has the same name as the singer.
+ Rhythm: Music theory
  * All musicians have to have a good sense of rhythm.
+ Spoon: Food utensils
  * There are many different types of spoons. There are dessert spoons, soup spoons, baby spoons, teaspoons, tablespoons and others. There are also spoons that are collector items and are worth a lot of money. Some musicians even use two spoons as a musical instrument like a castanet.
+ Variations on a Rococo Theme, Fitzhagen makes changes to the piece: Compositions by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky :: Concertos :: Variations (music)
  * When it was published there was nothing in the score which said that Fitzhagen had made lots of changes. It is hard to tell which one Tchaikovsky would have preferred. Maybe he let it be printed because he realized that Fitzhagen had improved it. We cannot tell. Musicians still argue about which version ought to be played.
+ Vibrato: Musical performance techniques
  * Musicians sometimes disagree about how much vibrato was used in earlier times. People who play music from the Renaissance or Baroque on period instruments sometimes play without any vibrato. Other people think that players of those days did use some vibrato.