A STUDY OF MUSIC IN MODERN AMERICA
By Ashley
You might be flipping through the radio channels on a calm Saturday, relaxing in a squishy armchair with a magazine in your lap. Suddenly, just as you get to a station in the lower nineties, a blast of obnoxious music meets your relaxed ears. Is this a person or a baboon attempting to make this strange excuse for music into a song?
You frantically move the tuner dial, trying to find a more peaceful station. To your dismay, half the stations are playing exactly the stuff that you heard on the first station.
Now, you may disagree with me, but I believe that this could easily be referred to as "Peace disruption." If this is the fate of the world?s radio, then I hope I don?t live to see it. Honestly, these people could be speaking in Portuguese and you?d never know it, since it?s virtually impossible to discern what the words are.
Let's analyze. Doctors and scientists say that reading and talking to your baby while you're still pregnant and during the first years may help it to be much more intelligent when he or she is older. They also say that the music you play affects him as well. So, in a roundabout way, the future generations of kids just might be a bit less bright than the light bulbs of this time.
Theoretically, not many adults listen to the Portuguese baboons trying to sing. But, many have teen children, and they most likely listen to it. The most likely place for the teen and the mother to be listening to the radio simultaneously is in the car. They (mostly the ones who can?t drive yet) take full control of the radio and listen to what they want. So, again, in a roundabout way, this could have an affect on the future.
But, then again, there's no way to shut down the business of making that sort of noise (a.k.a. music, so they call it). Yet I disagree with anyone giving up using the "If you can't beat 'em, join ?em" technique. Fight for the '80s and '90s music! Fight for the classical! Fight for the oldies!
And those radio DJs aren't any better. Well, maybe I'll get into that one another day?
By Ashley
You might be flipping through the radio channels on a calm Saturday, relaxing in a squishy armchair with a magazine in your lap. Suddenly, just as you get to a station in the lower nineties, a blast of obnoxious music meets your relaxed ears. Is this a person or a baboon attempting to make this strange excuse for music into a song?
You frantically move the tuner dial, trying to find a more peaceful station. To your dismay, half the stations are playing exactly the stuff that you heard on the first station.
Now, you may disagree with me, but I believe that this could easily be referred to as "Peace disruption." If this is the fate of the world?s radio, then I hope I don?t live to see it. Honestly, these people could be speaking in Portuguese and you?d never know it, since it?s virtually impossible to discern what the words are.
Let's analyze. Doctors and scientists say that reading and talking to your baby while you're still pregnant and during the first years may help it to be much more intelligent when he or she is older. They also say that the music you play affects him as well. So, in a roundabout way, the future generations of kids just might be a bit less bright than the light bulbs of this time.
Theoretically, not many adults listen to the Portuguese baboons trying to sing. But, many have teen children, and they most likely listen to it. The most likely place for the teen and the mother to be listening to the radio simultaneously is in the car. They (mostly the ones who can?t drive yet) take full control of the radio and listen to what they want. So, again, in a roundabout way, this could have an affect on the future.
But, then again, there's no way to shut down the business of making that sort of noise (a.k.a. music, so they call it). Yet I disagree with anyone giving up using the "If you can't beat 'em, join ?em" technique. Fight for the '80s and '90s music! Fight for the classical! Fight for the oldies!
And those radio DJs aren't any better. Well, maybe I'll get into that one another day?
TUNES OF MUSIC
By Amulya
Indian classical music has a basic composition of 7 notes. There are thousands of raga (songs) which all stem from the same basic 7 notes. Some songs composed of these ragas have religious significance. are often of great religious significance. As an Indian girl who lives within a culture which embraces music, I was reminded of the power of song just a few days ago:
I was lying on my bed, bored, listening to the radio. Suddenly a familiar song filled the room. As I listened to it, I was reminded of my schools recent farewell party and a thousand other fond memories.
This is the strange power of music. A song can combine a varied assortment of feelings into one indescribable experience; giving the music itself a life of its own. It is because music can release such feeling that different songs suit different moods, remind us of both joyful and sad events in our lives and express different ideals and concepts.
Music is communication. When I am listening to some song in India, someone else across the world might be listening to that same song and, for that moment, that person and I share a connection of sorts. We share a common understanding. Oftentimes, you feel as if a singer is talking to you on a personal level. You feel their joy; their rage; their pain. That is why some of the greatest singers are as great as they are. They tug at your heart itself.
Music in any form undergoes transition. This is what has contributed to the growth of music. From opera to classical to pop to rap, music has certainly changed over the years. It is due to this change that you have such a variety of music to choose from. Rock'n roll, jazz; these are also forms of music. Rock introduced a whole new dimension to music and gave us some of our most talented singers. For, if not for rock, there would be no Beatles, Rolling stones, Metallica, Korn and then where would the idols for thousands of teens be?
By Amulya
Indian classical music has a basic composition of 7 notes. There are thousands of raga (songs) which all stem from the same basic 7 notes. Some songs composed of these ragas have religious significance. are often of great religious significance. As an Indian girl who lives within a culture which embraces music, I was reminded of the power of song just a few days ago:
I was lying on my bed, bored, listening to the radio. Suddenly a familiar song filled the room. As I listened to it, I was reminded of my schools recent farewell party and a thousand other fond memories.
This is the strange power of music. A song can combine a varied assortment of feelings into one indescribable experience; giving the music itself a life of its own. It is because music can release such feeling that different songs suit different moods, remind us of both joyful and sad events in our lives and express different ideals and concepts.
Music is communication. When I am listening to some song in India, someone else across the world might be listening to that same song and, for that moment, that person and I share a connection of sorts. We share a common understanding. Oftentimes, you feel as if a singer is talking to you on a personal level. You feel their joy; their rage; their pain. That is why some of the greatest singers are as great as they are. They tug at your heart itself.
Music in any form undergoes transition. This is what has contributed to the growth of music. From opera to classical to pop to rap, music has certainly changed over the years. It is due to this change that you have such a variety of music to choose from. Rock'n roll, jazz; these are also forms of music. Rock introduced a whole new dimension to music and gave us some of our most talented singers. For, if not for rock, there would be no Beatles, Rolling stones, Metallica, Korn and then where would the idols for thousands of teens be?
MUSIC: THE NEED FOR AN ESCAPE WITH A SOUND
By Froilan
Simply see her jaw drop as she belts out that incredible high E. All you have to do is hear his fingers pluck the strings on his Gibson guitar. Did you taste that mildew in the air when you surrounded yourself with others who love music at the concert? Touch your chest and feel your heart while you perform the Star Spangled Banner at your high schools first basketball game. Once youve smelled the inside of your ancient tuba, you will never run from it, only to it.
It is obvious that music plays an integral part in our lives. To some it has become a necessity for living and for others a decent relaxation process. Think about a certain point in your life, when you do, something related with music is associated with that stage of your life. It has such an overpowering effect that it bleeds through our minds and expresses how we fell because something about harmonic melodies or teasing electric guitar riffs moves us to be submissive to it.
Listen to Mozart, Beethoven or Bach while you study. Well, yes and no. I will agree that they were extra terrestrials that came here to taunt us and show that we could not duplicate them, but they still had such amazing abilities that one must give them credit solely on that. Now, whether you like them or not is a different story. I feel that if you want violas injecting your ear, drums bottling your drums, voice floating around or simply waves splashing your head; listen to what you like and you will grow.
It is here, it is there, it is Over the Hills and Far Away (Led Zepplin). I am sure no one really tries to run from it, but if one ever did attempt to dash from music, you would die trying. It really is in everything you do. Walk. Simply go for a walk and catch the beat your feet keep as they step. Sit perfectly still. Do it and find the music your mind starts to conjure even if the room is the quietest room in the Milky Way. Type a paper, give a speech, sleep, shake a hand or be in love, music will be on your left shoulder the whole time.
I was trying to write a song on my guitar once and I could not get anything out of me so I did what any great composer would do, rest. So, I took a nap and woke up about thirty-two minutes later and wrote one of the best songs I have ever written. All I needed was some deep sleep for about half an hour and BAM - my song was done.
Somehow, someway we need it to survive. If I could take one thing with me if I we to go somewhere and never come back, I would definitely take my Disc-Man and my Lauryn Hill CDs (and a bunch of batteries, I guess). Your music is in your soul, your soul is music.
Listen to your soul when you study.
By Froilan
Simply see her jaw drop as she belts out that incredible high E. All you have to do is hear his fingers pluck the strings on his Gibson guitar. Did you taste that mildew in the air when you surrounded yourself with others who love music at the concert? Touch your chest and feel your heart while you perform the Star Spangled Banner at your high schools first basketball game. Once youve smelled the inside of your ancient tuba, you will never run from it, only to it.
It is obvious that music plays an integral part in our lives. To some it has become a necessity for living and for others a decent relaxation process. Think about a certain point in your life, when you do, something related with music is associated with that stage of your life. It has such an overpowering effect that it bleeds through our minds and expresses how we fell because something about harmonic melodies or teasing electric guitar riffs moves us to be submissive to it.
Listen to Mozart, Beethoven or Bach while you study. Well, yes and no. I will agree that they were extra terrestrials that came here to taunt us and show that we could not duplicate them, but they still had such amazing abilities that one must give them credit solely on that. Now, whether you like them or not is a different story. I feel that if you want violas injecting your ear, drums bottling your drums, voice floating around or simply waves splashing your head; listen to what you like and you will grow.
It is here, it is there, it is Over the Hills and Far Away (Led Zepplin). I am sure no one really tries to run from it, but if one ever did attempt to dash from music, you would die trying. It really is in everything you do. Walk. Simply go for a walk and catch the beat your feet keep as they step. Sit perfectly still. Do it and find the music your mind starts to conjure even if the room is the quietest room in the Milky Way. Type a paper, give a speech, sleep, shake a hand or be in love, music will be on your left shoulder the whole time.
I was trying to write a song on my guitar once and I could not get anything out of me so I did what any great composer would do, rest. So, I took a nap and woke up about thirty-two minutes later and wrote one of the best songs I have ever written. All I needed was some deep sleep for about half an hour and BAM - my song was done.
Somehow, someway we need it to survive. If I could take one thing with me if I we to go somewhere and never come back, I would definitely take my Disc-Man and my Lauryn Hill CDs (and a bunch of batteries, I guess). Your music is in your soul, your soul is music.
Listen to your soul when you study.
