Ancient Greece was the birthplace of modern civilisation, and along with many other forms of art the development of music was a key part of the Ancient Greek culture, and played an important role in everyday life. Greek music was used as a way of honouring the gods, and an essential part of creating a civilised society and still to this day many traditional dances and songs are played at religious and cultural ceremonies as a key part of the celebrations.
Music was one of the main subjects in Ancient Greek education, along with reading, arithmetic and athletics and the Ancient Greeks crafted all kinds of musical instruments including lyres (a type of harp), pipes and percussion instruments such as drums and cymbals. The word music actually comes from the Greek word ‘muses’, who were the daughters of Zeus in the Ancient Greek pantheon and the goddesses of intellectual and creative endeavours.
The Ancient Greeks did note down their music, and some examples of this have survived along with many ancient literary references to music so historians can be reasonably sure of how music may have sounded in Ancient Greek times, and this has allowed musicians to record new versions of this classic form of ancient Greek music for us to listen to and enjoy in modern times.
Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Ancient Greek Music – The Basics
Wednesday, 26 August 2009
Learning Guitar
Learning how to play guitar is little difficult and a dream of most young. If you start learning guitar by self, it can be lot frustrating. If you search on web, you can find thousands of sites offering free and paid tutorials. They claim to provide complete tutorial from basic to advance. But believe me, it’s never easy to learn playing guitar online. You may be losing time and money.
You may once think to start learning from books, but books alone are also not helpful. I have tried both book and online, but for me both were only wastage of time. The best way to learn guitar is take coaching from any music teacher. But not all can manage to learn from music teacher. The best solution to learn playing guitar at home is from video tutorial. Buy a Guitar instruction DVDs and start learning.
It’s much easy to learn guitar from video. Guitar lessons on DVDs is organised chapter wise so that you can learn step by step. These are actually a set of many DVDs like say 20-25 starting from very beginning to advance. The video format of learning has its own advantage like its lots cheaper than regular coaching and you can start learning any time when you are free. :)
Monday, 10 August 2009
Finally, Michael Jackson was Buried
Since the last breath of Jacko on June 25, the burial location of Michael Jackson has always been debated. But now the Megastar corpse is buried. Forest Lawn Funeral luxury of finally selected by family for the last rest place for Michael. Previously, some place to bury Michael was considered, including where Jackco last live, Neverland.
According to the Mirror, Michael corpse was buried on Sunday (9/8/2009) the night. However, the location of burial became a mystery. "Michael has been buried, but only the family and the management of Jackson Forest Lawn know the location of certain burial and no body else know it," said one source who quoted from Mirror, Monday (10/8/2009).
Location is concealed in order to maintain tranquility in Forest Lawn. Feared, if Michael fans throng came to do the pilgrimage, it will disrupt the peace of funeral, and damage to the graves are there.
Friday, 7 August 2009
Are Michael Jackson Rest in Peace?
Many parties are still with sorrow pullout departed King of Pop Michael Jackson. Soul musicians were including legendary Smokey Robinson, who confessed to unconfortable with the incessant coverage problem of Jacko, who was making them more soluble in the dumps.
"It's difficult to make calm 'rest', because the media did not give a chance for it. Every day you turn on TV and you will hear the matter of the arrested doctors, speech concerning DNA sons Michael, bla bla bla. Whatever happens is Michael their father, "he said to the full emotional EW.com.
Singer of The Tears of a Clown, who also read a letter from the Diana Ross tribute to Jacko on the Stapless Center, Los Angeles some time ago also asserts he still can not release his sadness.
"Very sad, given that the media continue to perpetuate this grief for all of us. See children of Michaeld, what the media did not think a matter of news impact on their lives? This is all a shame," he said as reported by Contactmusic.
Robbie William Makes a Song for Michael Jackson
When hearing news that Michael Jackson died, one thing is in the mind Robbie Williams that is writing a song for in memorial a mega star Michael Jackson. Unfortunately all the songs for the album which is already set and the new Robbie forced to re-write the songs that will be inserted in this album.
"Michael Jackson dies. I am really sad. I can not make the lyrics for songs that have been so when he died so I try to write back with him in the shadow of my mind," said Robbie on the track that he gives this to Michael.
Robbie gives out the new studio planned to change the order of the songs in the album this week and yesterday he confessed that he got help when writing this song. "When I say 'me' and I mean that Don Black," he said as quoted from ContactMusic.
Robbie confessed difficulty writing song lyrics and Don come there and offer assistance. Don Black is a true author of the lyrics is well known reputation among musicians. Before, he had time to use some lyrics from the theme song James Bond film.