Monday, October 8, 2012
I don't make music for eyes...
It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.
Stevie Nicks
My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
Ray Charles
Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.
Charlie Byrd
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I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.
Herb Alpert
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Terms:
Form - The structure of a piece of music.
Dynamics - Pertaining to the loudness or softness of a musical composition. Also the symbols in sheet music indicating volume.
Allegro - A direction to play lively and fast.
Energico - A symbol in sheet music a direction to play energetically.
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy
Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
Gary Wright
Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.
Charlie Byrd
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Music is love in search of a word.
Sidney Lanier
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Terms:
Key - The music's key is determined by which notes are played sharp or flat. The key has a big effect on how the music sounds. Major keys sound 'happy' while minor keys sound 'sad'.
Theme - A melody that appears at the beginning of a piece of music, which is repeated or modified. A large piece of music may have more than one theme (e.g. The Hebrides Overture).
Song cycle - A sequence of songs, perhaps on a single theme, or with texts by one poet, or having continuos narrative.
Scordatura - The retuning of a stringed instrument in order to play notes below the ordinary range of the instrument or to produce an usual tone color.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
I think music in itself is healing
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
Billy Joel
Music is my religion.
Jimi Hendrix
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
Jacques Barzun
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You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
Bryan Ferry
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Terms:
Neoclassical - Movement in music where the characteristics are crisp and direct.
Modes - Either of the two octave arrangements in modern music. The modes are either major or minor.
Symphony - Three to four movement orchestral piece, generally in sonata form.
Partial - A harmonic given off by a note when it is played.
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Music should be your escape.
Music should be your escape.
Missy Elliot
Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.
Billy Sheehan
Music can change the world because it can change people.
Bono
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Lao Tzu
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Terms:
Minor - One of the two modes of the tonal system. The minor mode can be identified by the dark, melancholic mood.
Nonet - A composition written for nine instruments.
Sextet - A set of six musicians who perform a composition written for six parts.
Atonal - Music that is written and performed without regard to any specific key.
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Friday, August 17, 2012
Timothy L Mccoul
He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
Billy Wilder
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
Paul Simon
Any good music must be an innovation.
Les Baxter
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Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
Robert Browning
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Terms:
Classical - The period of music history which dates from the mid 1700's to mid 1800's. The music was spare and emotionally reserved, especially when compared to Romantic and Boroque music.
Dissonance - Harsh, discordant, and lack of harmony. Also a chord that sounds incomplete until it resolves itself on a harmonious chord.
Chromatic scale - Includes all twelve notes of an octave.
Beat - The unit of musical rhythm.
Monday, August 6, 2012
Timothy L Mccoul
My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
Yancy Butler
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard
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There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
Frank Zappa
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Terms:
Key signature - The flats and sharps at the beginning of each staff line indicating the key of music the piece is to be played.
Score - The written music. The score contains the music for each instrument. The conductor follows the whole score, while the musicians play the music for their instrument.
Capriccio - A quick, improvisational, spirited piece of music.
Tone - The intonation, pitch, and modulation of a composition expressing the meaning, feeling, or attitude of the music.
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Timothy L. Mccoul - random music quotes
Timothy L Mccoul - some random music quotes:
I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.
Herb Alpert
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
John Ruskin
You are the music while the music lasts.
T. S. Eliot
The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
Gustav Mahler
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Terms:
Castrato - Male singers who were castrated to preserve their alto and soprano vocal range.
Interpretation - The expression the performer brings when playing his instrument.
Symphony - Three to four movement orchestral piece, generally in sonata form.
Conductor - One who directs a group of performers. The conductor indicates the tempo, phrasing, dynamics, and style by gestures and facial expressions.
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