Let this link be a starter. I've never heard about her untill today. And if i look in music history i can only find St. Hildegarde mentioned as a composer, speaking of literature and other art etc. you can barely find any. Why is it that history don't speak much of women? Even nowadays some ppl make boundries between women and man. I've experienced it lately. Have you?
Because of abnormal "fallage" of snow this year, and especially of today's extra, i had to wait half an hour to go to Ljubljana and and hour and a half to take a train back home. Sometimes this things happen for a reason. I met an interesting person :) I must say that enjoyed every second in the waiting of a train :)
Since i'm studying music i decided why not to write down what i know about it so far. So, here it goes.
If you don't agree with me, then i urge you to write what you think and tell me your opinion or correct me, if i'm wrong.
Part I
What is music, actually? Music is a creation, which stays as sth new, it's what a human being makes a their, by him/herself. So bird singing, a car's noise etc. is not defined as a music. More precisely, music is a timely settled sequence of strengthened or at least quite defined tones.
Music has existed for approximately 600 000 years.
I. MUSIC OF THE PRIMITIVE/FIRST PEOPLE
How do we know how the first people lived? Well, we can take the aborigines and indians etc. as an example. These tribes lived separated from modern civilisations for a long time, so we can make comparisons between them and the first people and that's the only way we can imagine how music sounded at the beginning.
Music meant sth powerfull and magical to them. With music they were in touch and they connected themselves with divine powers above them.
Some characteristics of their music:
a. a simple rhythm- reminds us of the rhythm of walking (more complicated rhythms are typical only for Africans, who have a really great sense for it)
b. short, endlessly repeating motives
c. narrow extend of melodics (we know five types of it):
§ fanfare type (sang in thirds)- known from New Guinea
§ pentatonic type (is without tonal centre)
§ resembling-steps type – known from American Indians
§ jumping type- known from Mongoles à also: Tibetans- bifonal singing (one person sings so, that two voices are heard)
§ garland type- from Middle East
4. unison (it's possible polyphone singing, but rarely)
5. music is sang by everybody, it is the quality of all!!, everybody takes part in singinig
the groups of instruments: percussions, string instruments (hunting bow) and wind instruments (simple flute, animal-hunting horn, didgeridoo-aboriginal people)
After these first groups of people, eho created music, we can talk about the music of the 1st civilisations. With that we refer to music from China, Japan, Palestine, Arabia, Mesopotamia, India, Egypt, Greece and Rome.
But first, let's find out sth about polyphonic in non-European music, with that we mean in Asia, India, Africa, Caucasus …
What is POLYPHONY? It's a musical performance in which more voices (at least 2) sing the same or different melody in interval spacing, which is not sang in an octave or unison.
We know more ways, such as:
§ singing in parallel intervals (2,3,4,5…)
§ intervals replaced with other intervals … and from that we can get. A CANON- mutual imitation of the melody
§ Bordune- the tone, which is repeating constantly till the end of a song
§ free/independent polyphonyà Ostinato-rhythmical-melodical pattern, which is constantly repeating, above the melody
§ Heterophony- everybody in the group with instruments plays the same, but we hear differently, because the instruments are differently harmonized
If i write down letter C in Google i find this site on the first page quite interesting: CELSIUS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius)–why? Because it makes me wondering why is it that in some parts of the world we say: »It's minus 6 (and we mean Celsius by it) outside,« and some say: »It's 21 (and they mean fahrenheit)«? And then one starts wondering why some use kilometres and some miles when they talk about the distances-isnt' that quite confusing? We have so many different ways and words to express same things, for which if you don't want constantly ask people for it's meaning you have to know a bit more, you have to be well informed and to know other things. But that isn't bad at all-if we forget about the knowledge and concentrate on something else then one starts realising that difference in this world is important, because – let's look at the simplest example: imagine that all the trees and flowers in this world would be the same, wouldn't it be boring? Different colours and shapes of the trees make them unique and interesting, but although they are different together they make harmony and make a clourfull and interesting image. So that's why i think that diversity is good! Differences join us together and make the world more clourfull.
If i look up videos under the letter C i find a clip from Sesame street.
If i write litter C in Yahoo toolbar then i find this: C++ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C++) of which i've never heard … - have you? There are so many things we don't know that it start you to think what do i want to know, how much knowledge can i store in my "little" and bounded brain?
And under the videos i find loads of them that involve football.
