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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