Micro
Two goods for which a rise in the price of one leads to a decline in the demand for the other
Complement
But as preoccupation came over her, a certain flatness crept into the sound. When she was not listening to her own voice, it did not keep quite to the pitch of trueness.
No Woman Born
A metal tube with a thin column of mercury, used to store information.
Delay Line
Singers often vocalize the syllabic "ah" over and over to create this tone color that has been used in film music.
a wordless choir
Very small bones of the middle ear
Ossicles
Using politcal influence to benefit oneself at the expense of others
Rent seeking
So laws are made and handed down on what is safe. Formulate.
The Mushroom Hunters
The memory unit of the Manchester Baby, similar to a cathode-ray tube.
Williams tube
This composer's music for the 1916 film The Planets is still influential today.
Gustav Holst
The process of translating sensory stimuli into electrochemical signals
Sensory transduction
Profit that takes into account opportunity costs
Economic profit
Or like that funny experience you have, on the point of sleep, of hearing your name called softly and distinctly by someone who is not there.
Snow
Reusable piece of thin plastic or metal that could store data; used in the UNIVAC
Magnetic Tape
This mode of music could be heard in churches in the Middle Ages and in E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial.
the Lydian mode
Where the transduction of light occurs in the body
Retina
An agreement between suppliers to restrict production to raise prices
Cartel
There was the ruin of the marble fountain in the centre, scuptured with rare art, but so woefully shattered that it was impossible to trace the orginial design from the chaos of remaining fragments.
Rappaccini's Daughter
Small, durable device that regulates and amplifies electric current
Transistor
This cut of the film is given to composers as they begin to write the score.
the rough cut
System which creates the sense of balance and spatial orientation
Vestibular system
Conditions that prevent firms from freely entering or exiting a market
Barriers to entry
She broke the thread and wrapped it about my wrist three times so I was tethered to heaven by the longest, I repeat, longest kite string in the entire history of the world.
I Sing the Body Electric
A computer program that translated mnemonics into numeric codes
Assembler
This era of music- during which the major tritone progression was created- spanned most of the 19th century and influenced the way film music is composed.
The targets of this system are the muscles themselves
Motor system
The increased cost from producing one additional unit
Marginal costs
The only safe emotion was anger, and he didn't deserve that. He'd only been trying to help.
Childfinder
Storage medium that offers random access; increased in capacity and decreased in size
Disk
New scores have been written for old films, such as this one that recieved a rock-music treatment in 1984.
Metropolis
Includes all sensations received from the skin and mucous membranes
Somatosensation
The reduction in total surplus that results from a market distortion such as a tax
Deadweight Loss
If we can think/ this far, might our eyes adjust to the dark?
Relativity
Storage system that rotated several hundred times a minute to read and write data
Magnetic Drum
In 1928, movie studios agreed to produce only this type of movie, making way for "talkie" films.
Regulates the body's willingness to induce movement
Basal Ganglia