Posted on 04/24/2013 10:51:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
>>A touch-sensitive electric piano with sounds sampled from good acoustic instruments, suitable for a beginning pupil, costs about as much as a video game station. <<
I just saw one in Frys for $35 — I almost bought it.
I played trumpet and still play flute. Playing a musical instrument can be a very relaxing and fun thing to do. If you do play you know what I mean. If not it is almost impossible to explain how good making music makes you feel.
I believe this is factually incorrect. Pythagoras had all sorts of ideas about the relationship between music, the universe and higher thought.
He died around 500 BC, about 1000 years before Augustine.
DuFay, Ockeghem, and Dunstable seem to have spent most of their spare time squeezing mathematical puzzles into their music.
Now that's funny.
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Nice keys.
One of their assignments was to go to local concerts. She heard through a friend that a sitar player at one concert announced to his fellow musicians back stage: "There's a little American girl in the front row counting tala!"
Learn the circle of fifths and modulation, the moveable do system for scales and memorize key signatures and you’ve already learned enough to build chords, figure out any scale in any key and if you combine it with the time signatures, learn to read music and you’re almost 90% there.
That doesn’t mean you’ll be Beethoven but it does give you enough to understand why some sounds sound great and some really sound horrible and if you’re really really lucky, you’ll have been born with perfect pitch, if not, you can learn relative pitch so you can tell the difference between the sound of E and F#.
There’s a guy who supposedly has a system to teach anyone perfect pitch, reviews were pretty bad for his system. I had the first tape and it boiled down to listening to different note’s timbres but just listening to different chords and notes will give you plenty of information.
Classical music and math: 1901 Fruitgum Company”
Ev’ry time I try to prove I love you,
1,2,3, Red Light, You stop me,.
Baby you ain’t right to stop me.
Is it micro-tonal? Western music has twelve notes to an octave while some eastern music has twenty four or more. It’s really weird to hear if you’re used to Western music.
Playing a sitar is pretty interesting but soon it starts to sound the same. What was that guy’s name, Ravi Shankar??? He used to play for hours; I don’t see how he could stand it.
Was he still playing with the knives?
Very interesting!
I consider myself a musician. I love math. I’ve accomplished a bit of things in my life as far as business and I even played collegiate sports (golf). Out of all the things in my life I only found mystery in math and music.
I constantly push my kids towards math and tell them that “everything can be solved with math”. I likewise would love to push them towards music but do not push them to the level I do with math.
With all that I have done in life music seems to be the most difficult thing I have ever undertaken.
Too much sax and violins for me.
Like the tuneless howling of the Imam from a minaret?
P.J. O'Rourke's response to the old Yale perfessor Amy Chua who wrote "The battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother". Very funny.
OTOH, I find that classical music is a favorite of mine, back to childhood. It does have the power to reach inside you and pull out emotions and a higher thought process.
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That would be Kor-rap music.
The horses appear to appreciate it . . . and I’m constantly battling with people who think horses should listen to country/western.
She has lovely but small...hands.
Well, then Telemann about it!
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