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Explain the purpose of MIDI and describe how event messages are used to represent music.
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What a good answer should say
- MIDI is used to represent a musical performance as a sequence of instructions rather than as a recording of the complete sound.
- Event messages describe musical events, such as a note starting or stopping, and can include information needed for that event.
- The events are arranged in time so that a MIDI-compatible system can reproduce the performance.
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A strong answer identifies MIDI as an instruction-based representation of music and explains that event messages record what happens during the performance and when it happens.
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