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Jul 10

The importance of music in our lives

Music Has a Myriad of Meanings Worthy of Mention

Music is here. Music is there. And music is everywhere. And depending on who you are, where you come from, what you do, and all other factors that make you, YOU, music can either occupy a very meaningful part of your life or be nothing more that mere “white noise” in what might seem like the otherwise worthless whirl of your day. For the scholarly, mathematical type, music is priceless. Its vast array of note (sound or pitch) values can provide endless hours of informative entertainment.

Persons engaging in the study of music (such as theorists, historians and various types of “musicologists) all thrive (or one might argue, “obsess”) on one aspect of music that they want to develop a very personal relationship with or in a sense, MASTER. In fact, highly trained (or “seasoned” musicians (be they instrumentalists or vocalists) can opt into something called a “master class” at most fine music schools and conservatories throughout the nation and abroad when and if in possession of the appropriate level of talent and/or drive to do so.

Those in the medical field often use music as a means of relieving stress in their patients via relaxation and meditation or as a mitigation of damage or injury and/or a treatment for those inflicted with pre-diagnosed social and behavioral conditions, disorders or handicaps. And it is widely assumed amongst certain types of doctors that as time elapses, this “musical treatment” will eventually effect a “lasting” cure of the initial ailment.

And for the layperson, music is its own form of charismatic magic. Music does everything from act as a catharsis to extracting the hurt from a wound long enough to bring it to the surface so that it may be handled directly, to cutting through natural ackwardness of a “first impression,” and even helping to push merchandise off of a struggling salesman’s floor.

Music provides highly empirical and tangible evidence of the transformative power of the unseen and is a universally recognized and accepted sort of “other language” that is sometimes the only understanding that one very opposite culture has of the other. Music, too, is personally symbolic and frequently left up to a high degree of interpretation. It can evoke thoughts of everything from love to hate, from happiness to the torment of sadness. It IS the filler of all gaps in generation and age, in values and in culture, and in the socio-ecomic status and perceived personal stature of others. And music very definitely works subconsciously to eliminate the mind’s otherwise harmful build-up of prejudices founded only in fear-stricken ignorance.

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9
Jun 10

You dont have to be a natural to learn the basics of music

For be a good guitarist to accompany a song, instrument or music besides You have to know about theories, You have practice, talent, and big intention in learning guitar. Learn and learn, in learning about theory, we also require to ask what we which have study, how to pick guitar better, how finger position, how to play slow tempo or fast tempo.

Sure and have big intention, that we should be able to play him, You can listen yours idol music, learn and if can look at for the guide book.

In playing castanets like guitar or any kind of castanets which we play, we should be able to bring feeling of us in music depended music what wish we play like music of rock, blues, rock, hard rock, heavy metal so many kinds of music.

Don’t us have hopeless in learning music is true require many times, and patience. You can ask to guitarist distinguished how long they learn, difficulty any kind of met them at studying time.

Collecting counted him ability of them study ability of them, don’t have felt small to learn at people which we assume expert.

If we are able to also able to add knowledge of us learn in conservatories. while in technical of melody, of vital importance to be paid attention is finger system at tone base, the finger pressure system have a selected directive pattern. and to reach deftness in technicals of melody, is needed assiduity of and practice of consequential to directive pattern.

How long you have to learn to play castanets (guitar) is depended from ability which you have and in fact learn there no the constrain. Though you have felt can don’t have desisted to learn.

Owning super ability and need in good hearing subvention. more than anything else is now supported with sophisticated equipments. so don’t have desisted to learn.

Searching and develop yours individuality, that different you from other in playing guitar of skill style and in game also sounds you to use.

after you can master technicals play guitar to look for friends to support you play guitar, that is by form of group band from there you also will learn many with yours band friends.

and try to follow music festival or audition to train to bounce us on stage.Top drawer if on stage us is skill which we have, accuracy of tone which we bring, compactly, and not less important is syle.

In studying technicals sound you also able to learn at the expert, how to arrange sound which with character, not many distortion, not noise. Arrangement of guitar sound effect.

so make music as easiness and hobby and lessons which you earn will not felt, lost to you become the expert.

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May 10

How financial support for music education has led to a decline in the arts

A decline in the arts? This is a misconception that can only occur in America, where crass commercialism has edged true art out of the picture and allowed light weight, and for the most part mediocre, entertainment to hold the spotlight. But a visit to any foreign city, or to any of America’s more worldly cities, will reveal a much different picture.

Visit Barcelona, for example, where there are classical concerts in churches all over the city every week, perhaps even every day. Notice the architecture, the attention to detail in everything right down to the tiles on the sidewalks on the Passaig de Gracia. Or visit London, or Vienna, or Paris. And in the U.S., visit New York City. Or, just pick up a copy of the Arts and Leisure section of the Sunday New York Times. Even a medium sized city like Tampa boasts two professional orchestras, and Lakeland, FL, with a population of under 100,000 has its own community orchestra, and a concert series at the college that brings in world class ensembles, orchestra, and soloists. The arts are indeed thriving.

And there are an increasing number of major composers and performers emerging from the conservatories every year. One need only look at the number of international music competitions, and the number of aspiring artists to see the number and the quality of the classical music scene. Composers? What about John Corigliano, David del Tredici, Osvaldo Golijov, Thomas Ades, and the list goes on.

So what can lead to the observation made by more than one commentator that the arts are declining? As stated above, commercial music has eclipsed classical music. Popular music which is enjoyed by “the unwashed masses” has always existed as something separate from classical music. But the advent of compulsory in the twentieth century, mass industrialization, and their attendant increase in standard of living, coupled with the advances in mass communication and media have given those “unwashed masses” far more clout than ever before in history. This has given them unprecedented access to the music of their choice – popular music – and the economic wherewithal to make that music dominate. The problem has not been a decline in “art music”, but rather an explosion in popular music that marginalizes the classics.

The arts are far from declining. If anything, the very conditions that have allowed commercial music to overshadow the classics have also allowed the classics to thrive in ways they never have before. Would Beethoven have been able to predict that a CD, the radio, and the internet would make his music available to millions of people throughout the world? Would Paganini have imagined that artists of far less renown (and far less ability) than he would reach a larger audience than he ever dreamed of by self publishing their recordings on the internet? If this is decline, I’ll take it.

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Feb 10

Is classical music dead?

As someone who grew up in a household where classical music was as much a part of our life as eating and breathing, I would have to say that classical music isn’t dead at all! My late father was an orchestral musician whose career spanned more than 60 years. As a child, I took music lessons, loving every bit of it. My brother and sister took lessons, and their children also took lessons.

Orchestras in major cities all over the world have subscription series, and the concerts are by and large, well attended. Many major cities have opera companies as well. The opera companies also sell subscriptions series. There too, people buy tickets. Classical soloists still have very active and prolific careers, and orchestral musicians still have their jobs – even though the economy is hurting.

There are countless music institutes and schools for young children. The Interlochen Arts Academy has been around for years. The National Music Camp in Interlochen Michigan is the oldest camp of that type in the country. There are music camps all over this country and the world.

Summer music festivals abound throughout this country and in Europe. In Salzburg, Austria, music is such a vital part of life, of the town and of the lives of the people who come to hear the music that they have several festivals throughout the year. One of them takes place around the time of Mozart’s birthday. People purchase tickets for that festival many years in advance.

In the United States, there is the Ravinia Festival in Illinois, Music Mountain in Falls Village Connecticut, the Berkshire Festival, the Tanglewood Festival, the Marlboro Music Festival, Saratoga Music Festival, Spoleto Music Festival, a festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico and music schools all over the country have summer programs. These programs are geared towards young men and women who seek careers in classical music.

How can classical music be dead if young men and women are still opting to go to music schools and conservatories? I went to a music conservatory. I have a degree in music history. Young children still take music lessons, and those lessons are more often geared towards classical instruction than anything else.

The study of classical music helps school children acquire greater discipline. It teaches them to focus, to stick with things and to work hard at something. Children who continue to take music lessons have an easier time getting into colleges.

People who specialize in producing entertainment and educational material for young infants have created Baby Mozart and similar DVDs. Whatever the intent, listening to classical music can be very calming and soothing for infants. It is calming and soothing for adults.

Sales for classical music CDs hasn’t ceased. And just as those CDs haven’t ceased, neither have the recording sessions that musicians are hired to play for in order to make the production of CDs possible in the first place.

Classical music may not be the most “stylish” or hip type of music for many people. But it has weathered the test of time so successfully that it easily surpasses any other type of music. People will always have different tastes in music, but the one type of music that has endured, regardless of circumstances, time or anything else is classical music.

Many of the young men and women I went to music school with are pursuing professional careers. Some have landed permanent orchestral jobs, while others do freelance work. The depend on classical music for their very livelihoods every day, and for them, as for me, classical music will never be dead. The composers are dead, but that doesn’t matter. The music is alive in our minds, in our hearts and in our ears.

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