Which of the four basic components of music is most helpful in identifying a world music tradition? Why?
The easiest way to learn to recognize a world music tradition is to become familiar with its media that is, the sounds of its typical instruments and vocal qualities. In order to identify a specific medium, we must first become familiar with its characteristic timbre or “color.” Most terms used to describe timbre are based on analogies between musical sound and everyday physical and sensory experience. Terms such as nasal, dark, mellow, strained, rough, soothing, grating, and so on, are highly subjective when applied to music but are nevertheless helpful in describing “aural color.”
Contemporary classical music is devoid of melody and appeal, all noise and no fun. At least, that's the cliche. But this is music that is very much at the heart of our modern world. The style of contemporary classical music is extremely varied. But mostly the term contemporary classical music has come to define the music of living composers who continue to compose in the 21st century. Listen to classical music from the Contemporary period right here on ClassicsOnline. contemporary music has tried to change the world.ome general characteristics of Contemporary Music are:Contemporary compositions vary widely, so this is not a complete list; and not all these characteristics are present in every composition.1. Fewer lyrical melodies than the music of former periods.2. Dissonant harmonies.3. Complex rhythms.4. Percussiveness.5. Greater use of woodwind, brass and percussion instruments than in music of earlier periods.6. The use of synthetic and electronic sounds. Stephanie Thompson is a one of the famous women singer and songwriter, also a contemporary music artist with a contemporary christian musical singing style. Visit Website: http://www.stephaniethompsonint.com
Matt Bednar's answer is very accurate for music that requires live vocals or instruments, but if you are more interested in creating electronic music, then you need five things:1. A good sense for music. You can't create good music if you don't understand time signatures and keys and basic music theory.2. A computer that can run production software.3. Production software. There are many choices here - in the electronic music world people generally deviate towards Ableton or Fruity Loops.Pete Tong uses Ableton. Afrojack/Stromae use Fruity Loops.4. Monitor speakers or Monitor headphones. You need to be able to accurately hear what you create.5. USB/Firewire External Sound card. This is less vital than the other four if you don't intend to use live vocals/instruments or DJ, but will greatly increase audio quality and decrease audio latency (lag) when you're making your music.MIDI controllers are completely optional, but may make the process much easier to trigger. I also recommend the Akai LPK25 - Stromae uses it.
Buddhists...could you please explain thr Four Noble truths to me and?
The Four Noble Truths (or The Four Truths of the Noble Ones) (Sanskrit: catvāri āryasatyāni;Wylie: 'phags pa'i bden pa bzhi; Pali: cattāri ariyasaccāni) are one of the most fundamental Buddhist teachings. In broad terms, these truths relate to suffering's (or dukkha's) nature, origin, cessation and the path leading to the cessation. They are among the truths Gautama Buddha is said to have realized during his experience of enlightenment. The Four Noble Truths appear many times throughout the most ancient Buddhist texts, the Pali Canon. The early teaching and the traditional understanding in the Theravada is that the four noble truths are an advanced teaching for those who are ready for them. Mahayana Buddhism regards them as a preliminary teaching for people not ready for its own teachings. They are little known in the Far East. Some may see "truths" as a mistranslation (one author cites "realities" as a possibly better choice: these are things, not statements, in the original grammar.) However, the original Tibetan Lotsawas (Sanskrit: locchāwa; Tibetan: lo ts'a ba), who studied Sanskrit grammar thoroughly, did translate the term from Sanskrit into Tibetan as "bden pa" which has the full meaning of "truth".
How can anyone really like Classical Music?
You are attaching FAR too much importance to the significance of various cataloging systems. The 'opus number' (whatever the derivation of the term) is simply a convenient way to help identifying pieces (or groups of pieces). In the 17th-19th centuries these 'opus numbers' were not even assigned to pieces of music by the composers (usually); they were assigned when a work was PUBLISHED. Opus numbers follow the order that a composer's works were published, which might be at odds with the order that they were written (two excellent examples of this are Beethoven and Dvořák, whose opus numbers can often be misleading as to the time of a work's composition in relation to those with adjacent opus numbers). Köchel's catalogue of Mozart's works is truly useful in its near perfect chronological listing of the composer's works. Other cataloguing systems, such as Jarmil Burghauser's catalogue of Dvořák's works or the 'BWV' (Bach) and 'HWV' (Handel) are useful reference points, that's all. And, of course, you can't identify a work by opus number alone. The 'Op 69' you speak of could be: Beethoven - Cello Sonata in A major Brahms - 9 Songs Elgar - The Music Makers Fauré - Romance for Cello Mendelssohn - Motet: 'Walpurgisnacht' Prokofiev - 4 Marches for Military Band Shostakovich - Children's Notebook Sibelius - 2 Serenades for Violin and Orchestra Tchaikovsky - Iolanta And many other pieces by various composers. Don't mix-up the perceived importance of a great composer's 'opus' in a generic sense with a mere 'opus number' which is a device for cataloging and identification only. EDIT: You can question my intellect all you want, but at least I can construct a meaningful sentence in a way that allows people to understand what I am talking about. Your incoherent, semi-literate ramblings have only served to confuse everyone here (including me). Perhaps we are not your intellectual equals! EDIT 2: I wonder if your 'Op 69' refers to the withdrawn Grand Symphonie Militaire (1951) by György Ligeti?
Elements of religion?
For the best answers, search on this site https://shorturl.im/axrFy Some say it is a form of belief in God. But that would not fit Zen Buddhism, which does not really believe in God at all. Some say it is a belief in the supernatural. But that doesn't fit Hinduism, which doesn't believe in a supernatural realm beyond the material world, but only a spiritual reality within the empirical. What is religion then? It is a set of beliefs that explain what life is all about, who we are, and the most important things that human beings should spend their time doing. For example, some think that this material world is all their is, that we are here by accident and when we die we just rot, and therefore the important thing is to choose to do what makes you happy and not let others impose their beliefs on you. Notice that this is not an explicit, organized religion, it contains a master narrative, an account about the meaning of life along with a recommendation for how to live based on that account of things. Some call this a worldview while others call it a narrative identity. In either case it is a set of faith-assumptions about the nature of things. It is an implicit religion. Everybody has some kind of religion. "What?" you say. "I don't believe in God, I don't have a religion." Well your lack of religion is like your religion. Everyone needs something to believe in. They need something bigger than themselves to be apart of, even if it's a belief in nothing. Our whole life is a search for identity; we're trying to figure out who we are and why we're here. People have come up with lots of different opinions on the matter over the history of mankind, but they're all trying to figure out how this place called earth works.