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The Music Language

 What is music?   According to the Oxford Dictionary: “Vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion”. In other words, we structure the sounds we make with our voice or instrument primarily to relay an emotion or tell a story. Beauty of form and harmony hints at the use of rules and guidelines. Where do these guidelines come from? In essence, the human ear and the perception of audible harmony determines what is pleasing. Centuries of musical history and development and the vast material available have established rules that apply to their respective styles and genres. The basic elements of music are melody, harmony and rhythm. The harmony establishes the vertical framework or boundaries for the melody. The melody is the horizontal movement of a line or voice. Finally, the rhythm describes how the notes move, are spaced and organized. All three make up what is taught in music theory. This is where...
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Personal Note

So far, I have refrained from using this service to promote my personal activities. Today I will make an exception. It has been 4 months since I changed hosting providers and for the past 4 months I had only a placeholder page up at my website.

Yesterday I finally uploaded a working site with informational material about myself and music samples to listen to. It's nothing fancy, just a few simple html pages. I still haven't gotten the hang of it and probably never will but the result is presentable. Also, I didn't put too mush time into it since there is so much else to do. Think about all the music I need to write and record, music I need to promote, kids I need to raise and last but not least my day job.

I hope you will enjoy visiting my site and come back often as the content is dynamic. For the media sections I use youtube for videos and reverbnation as music-players. The blog links to this page and the bio pages are faily static until I have some great news to report.

Thanks for your interest and support. You can always leave a comment here or email me. Do you like reading my blog? Do you have suggestions on topics? Do you have questions?

Have a safe holiday weekend. I will be back on Tuesday with another music related topic.
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