Is there any musical instruments that use the same principle as the larynx?
Maybe a didgeridoo
How do christians explain things such as cavemen?
Or dinosaurs, or a never ending solar system with every planet being completely different with the possibility of other species existing. Ok ok ill go back to my question. How do you explain cavemen? If science isn't lying to us (and science unlike religion is based in fact) then we can assume adam and eve never existed. We evolved from cavemen. However the bible says we were always human since they make adam and eve out to be too white teenagers.
Is music and singing forbidden in Islam?
Background: Some think that in Islam music and singing are completely forbidden or only some musical instruments are allowed. The Quran does not clearly forbid music or singing. Many sounds of nature can be considered music, e.g. the sound of waves on the shore or birds chirping. The human voice box is simply another musical instrument of nature. The Quran itself is written in a rhythmic/melodic style, and when it challenges others to bring a chapter like it [e.g. 10:38], this shows that it at least allows imitation of this style to take place. It should be noted however that singing and music should conform to the guiding principles in The Quran regarding communications, e.g. does not promote bad deeds, should be truthful etc [3:104, 14:24-26, 25:72, 33:70, 49:11 etc] According to The Quran it is important not to forbid things unless specifically forbidden by God: Say: “Who has forbidden the nice things that God has brought forth for His servants and the good provisions?” Say: “They are meant for those who believe during this worldly life, and they will be exclusive for them on the Day of Resurrection.” It is such that We explain the revelations for those who know. [7:32] You shall not invent lies about God by attributing lies with your tongues, saying: "This is lawful and that is forbidden." Those who invent lies about God will not succeed. [16:116] Thoughts?
How do I become a good singer if I have no natural talent for it?
Thanks Srishti Yadav for the A2A.I am not really a singer but I understand music a little and will try my best to answer this question.First of all you need to understand when you sing, what is right and what is wrong. To be able to identify if you are singing the right notes or not is the most important thing to begin with. And for that you will need someone to at least guide you a little. Singing classes might be a good option.Secondly, practicing without an instrument is waste. There is a reason why people use Harmonium or Keyboard while taking lessons. So you need that, but I understand that it's not easy to learn an instrument too. So we have few options: We have a lot of mobile apps for this purpose only. https://play.google.com/store/ap... https://play.google.com/store/ap...You can sing along with it. Tabla helps you stay in beat and Tanpura helps you stay in scale. So Tanpura will play notes 1-5-1. You should read music theory to understand how this actually works.I won't write in detail about music theory since it is a huge topic in itself.Thirdly, you should understand that everybody has a comfortable scale/octave at which he/she sings best. You should find that scale and practice all the songs you like at that scale only. For example: Late Jagjit Singh was best at lower notes and singing ghazals at low scales. Rahat Fateh Ali Khan does justice to songs at higher scales. And Arijit Singh sings best in medium octave. You should find octave suitable to you.Fourthly, don't hesitate. That's the most important thing which doesn't allow people to improve. You will listen a lot of comments about your singing but then you will improve and people will shut up and then they will comment again but for good.And lastly, have faith and keep practice. Nothing is impossible. Even if few things are, singing is not one of them. It is a skill and can be learned. If you want, you can send your recordings to me, and I will give my honest feedback to help you proceed in the right direction. PM if you need any help :)Hope this helps to an extent too!
Is writing a deeper form of art than Music?
As Cheryl Noland said, comparison is not possible on such a broad scale. The arts collectively come from a deep and ancient source. Not all the arts arrived at the same time is the best anthropological guess.What we experience as “art” is the idea, ability, and technical finesse of the creator (artist), and those three areas have a lot of latitude. That means all the artistic expressions are on a spectrum. Inject an audience and any sort of comparison, even within a single discipline is almost impossible .Anyone who has touched the arts, as in trying their hand, knows the joy and hard work required to get the image right. i’m a digital draughtsman, painter, and sometime composer. How I understand the various elements of expression, is quite different from if I were only one of those disciplines. Even so, I do not compare my work across disciplines but rather choose the mode of expression based on how the idea develops in my mind. That’s just how I work. It is not a method for everyone.
Why do we love music?
I'm actually completely ignorant of whether there has been in-depth research on this. There may already have been no doubt. If I recall, some animals do respond to music and who knows, maybe they respond to it but in a way that's too subtle? But I'll try to answer from the perspective of a hardcore music listener. You mention food and sex. The dopamine chemical, the "go get it" chemical is the basis for our reward system: when it benefits our own survival or the survival of our species, our dopamine level goes up. Music that sound good raise dopamine the same way food and sex does. From personal experience, the kind of music that gets me "high" the most is the music of J.S Bach. Why? Because I feel that Bach was able to compose music in a way that mimics SEX. Maybe it's because he had 20 children. But to clarify on how his music mimics sex, let me give an example from elsewhere. You know the 5-body paragraph structure that everyone has to learn from grades 1-12? Why do we use this structure? No one can give you a super concise logical reason because the reason I think is super subtle: it's a very successfully pleasurable formula. In a 5-body paragraph we have:hook --> thesis (introduction of theme) --> body paragraphs (generation of energy, progress, excitement, etc.) --> conclusion (climactic point or in addition, a resolution). Now in music of Bach AND sex, we see something very similar:eye contact (evaluation of partners' external characteristics) --> flirting + foreplay+ sex (generation of energy) --> orgasm (climax) --> etc. introduction of main melodic theme --> elaboration of idea, using scales/ arpeggios/harmonies, etc. to create a cycle of tension and release --> climactic point --> conclusion With Bach, I find that he is simply a master of manipulating tension and release. Both on the level of harmonies (vertical direction) and melodies (horizontal direction). And there are so many other dimensions to his music that he is pretty much unparalleled in the world of music. But I do not necessarily think one should listen to Bach everyday. For me, it's simply too powerful. It taxes the reward system of my brain and I am more likely to do impulsive things. Sometimes I just want to listen to something more relaxing, like repetitive electronic music, Debussy, ambience, etc.
Does moving your hand help to control your voice while singing?
There’s not a lot of literature on this subject, but I think I can make a strong case that moving your hand (and other gestures often called “studioisms”) are helpful for singing. Basically this breaks down both consciously and unconsciously:Consciously, it can be a challenge to manifest a number of internal physical actions without the use of external body direction. The most common example of this is with airflow: lots of people will use a hand to mime their airflow, which reminds them at all times where the air is going. It’s actually pretty easy to see how useful this can be even for a non-singer: even in absolute beginners, if you ask them to move their hand at a slow, constant rate as they sing, either they’ll struggle mightily and their hand will stop and start (or shake) or they’ll sing with relatively consistent, easy flow. In my own technique work, I’ll use hand (and sometimes full-body) motions for more complex stuff than breath flow, like tongue shape and angle, resonance, etc., but it’s basically the same principle. It’s all about externalizing stuff that normally happens internally, and that can thus be confusing.There’s also an unconscious component here, which is maybe more interesting and surprising: arm tension correlates to laryngeal tension. This is pretty easy to test for yourself, also: while singing a phrase, tense and relax your bicep and see how much easier it is to sing gently with your bicep released. It also works the opposite way: if you try to sing tensely with a loose arm, it’s actually pretty hard to do. When you do a studioism properly, you’re preventing your arm from stiffening, which cuts down on laryngeal tension, though obviously not entirely.Of course, studioisms come in various forms, some of which are less obvious than others. My teacher is really fond of demonstrating this through the example of this video of Callas singing Casta Diva:Her hands are on her arms gently, and you can see her almost petting the side of her arm slightly. She sings almost the whole aria with her arms crossed like this, but with absolutely no arm tension. It’s one of the most beautiful recordings of her singing, and a great example of how you can use studioisms in extremely subtle ways.