On the other side of things, remember way way back when I started this blog? Well, I've got more than one iron in the fire:
- Writing:Self publishing my own books
- Freebie Trading
- PTC
- Yahoo Content Network
Showing posts with label greek music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label greek music. Show all posts
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Music News
So what's happening in music with us, you say? Right now, nothing, but we did have a big discussion and chose some music that we want to create our own music with-royalty free music. We have yet to get out MTV music generator songs and compositions online. One day, we promise we will.
On the other side of things, remember way way back when I started this blog? Well, I've got more than one iron in the fire:
On the other side of things, remember way way back when I started this blog? Well, I've got more than one iron in the fire:
Thursday, February 03, 2011
Music News......
O.K., still the same problem. We have to put our MTV Music Generator music on the back burner. Maybe one day this year, we'll turn into techno geeks and can hook it up properly, but for now we're going to just settle using royalty free music. So, we're still working on that, and I promise you WILL hear something from us this year, and I will get back to telling my story, about how I am trying to "Chase the Life of Riley" on the Internet.
In the meantime, I will be putting more information on this blog this year. Since I'm so busy, I'll post at least once a month until I no longer have to chase Riley and have more free time. So here's what you can expect:
In the meantime, I will be putting more information on this blog this year. Since I'm so busy, I'll post at least once a month until I no longer have to chase Riley and have more free time. So here's what you can expect:
- Music books
- Music articles
- DNJR's Music(Finally, right?)
- Music Links(I've slacked on that in the past, well, no more!)
Friday, September 10, 2010
Music Update
O.K.! We have come to the same problem....again. Hooking up the Playstation/Playstation 2 to the computer, so we can use the songs that we have already written, and get you to hear them. It hasn't worked-yet. In the meantime, we are working on another project: Become-Financially-Independent. I've found a home business that I love, and though I hit some snags, I have made money, more money than on Associated content in a short period of time, yet, it's not enough to get me out of my day job.
So....that's why you haven't heard anything from me in a looonnnngggg tiiiiiimmmme. Our ringtones? Not perfect yet, we're still working on those, the first one, we sent out in the open on Associated Content, and not many people listened. Then later, I read that audio stuff is not what a lot of people are interested in on AC. Big surprise! Well, anyway I have to post some interesting content. If you have ever watched American Idol, I knew that once the big guys dissed Paula Abdul by not giving her more money, and she left, that was the beginning of the end of the show.
Simon left this season, then Ellen(who was so cool on the show!) and now, the latest and the least of the judges I liked Kara DioGuardi has now left the American Idol building. I really can't think of Anybody who
can replace Paula and Simon. Kara, definitely can be replaced, but not Simon and Paula. Those two, and Randy Jackson branded the show. Uh, oh, I hope he doesn't leave now!!! Randy, if you find this obscure blog and you read this, please don't leave the show!!!! I have heard through the grapevine, they are thinking of Steven Tyler and J-Lo as possible judges. I got nothing against them but, we need someone else, either way. Someone experienced like Simon, or hot like Tommy Lee. Tommy Lee ...*sigh*..I'd love to see his hotness every week. Todd Rundgren knows the music Industry like anybody's business. He'd be a terrific Judge for the show. It'd get him out of the New Cars, the ONLY group I don't like that he ever was in!
If you don't know who Todd Rundgren is, there you go! He needs to be on the show he's a great songwriter, producer, musician, and all-around cool artist. Well, I've said enough, got to get back to what I was doing...but I'll be back sooner than later.
So....that's why you haven't heard anything from me in a looonnnngggg tiiiiiimmmme. Our ringtones? Not perfect yet, we're still working on those, the first one, we sent out in the open on Associated Content, and not many people listened. Then later, I read that audio stuff is not what a lot of people are interested in on AC. Big surprise! Well, anyway I have to post some interesting content. If you have ever watched American Idol, I knew that once the big guys dissed Paula Abdul by not giving her more money, and she left, that was the beginning of the end of the show.
Simon left this season, then Ellen(who was so cool on the show!) and now, the latest and the least of the judges I liked Kara DioGuardi has now left the American Idol building. I really can't think of Anybody who
can replace Paula and Simon. Kara, definitely can be replaced, but not Simon and Paula. Those two, and Randy Jackson branded the show. Uh, oh, I hope he doesn't leave now!!! Randy, if you find this obscure blog and you read this, please don't leave the show!!!! I have heard through the grapevine, they are thinking of Steven Tyler and J-Lo as possible judges. I got nothing against them but, we need someone else, either way. Someone experienced like Simon, or hot like Tommy Lee. Tommy Lee ...*sigh*..I'd love to see his hotness every week. Todd Rundgren knows the music Industry like anybody's business. He'd be a terrific Judge for the show. It'd get him out of the New Cars, the ONLY group I don't like that he ever was in!
If you don't know who Todd Rundgren is, there you go! He needs to be on the show he's a great songwriter, producer, musician, and all-around cool artist. Well, I've said enough, got to get back to what I was doing...but I'll be back sooner than later.
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
New Look And More News
As you can see, I made some changes to the blog. There
will be music resources, and other interesting things I
can find that is all about music. I'll be adding more links
as time goes on, but here's some that I am sure will
interest you.
I'll be making one post a week starting next week(wait,
actually I've done two this week LoL!) and here are
some of the things that I'll be covering:
Free Music Courses
Free Music Software
Music Articles
As Usual, me ever Chasing Riley!
Sometimes I wonder, what am I going to do when I have
finally caught Riley? What Can I possibly say in this blog?
After all, that is what this blog is all about. The only thing
I can think of is to help everyone along who also wants
financial freedom. I'm ready, let's hope this chase is
almost finished.
will be music resources, and other interesting things I
can find that is all about music. I'll be adding more links
as time goes on, but here's some that I am sure will
interest you.
I'll be making one post a week starting next week(wait,
actually I've done two this week LoL!) and here are
some of the things that I'll be covering:
Free Music Courses
Free Music Software
Music Articles
As Usual, me ever Chasing Riley!
Sometimes I wonder, what am I going to do when I have
finally caught Riley? What Can I possibly say in this blog?
After all, that is what this blog is all about. The only thing
I can think of is to help everyone along who also wants
financial freedom. I'm ready, let's hope this chase is
almost finished.
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
The History Of Music-The Greeks
The musical history of the Greeks may be divided into two great periods, the historical, and the mythological. The mythological period covers the entire range of traditions and legends, and extends up to the time when the Greeks began to reckon by Olympiads.
By Mike Shaw
The musical history of the Greeks may be divided into two great periods, the historical, and the mythological. The mythological period covers the entire range of traditions and legends, up to the time of the Olympiads, the date of the first Olympiad being 776 B.C. From 776 B.C. to 161 A.D. is the historical period.
To the mythological period belong the stories of Eurydice and Orpheus. Perhaps the noblest and most beautiful of all the fairy tales of art, the building of Thebes and Cadmea by Amphion, who by his playing supposedly caused the stones and rocks to move spontaneously. The contest between the myth of the Sirens, Apollo and Marsyas, and numberless other stories and traditions with which the Hellenic mind loved to surround, as with many garlands, the art of music.
The poet Homer, provides us with a link between the traditional and historical periods, and in the “Iliad” and the “Odyssey” are to be found both legend and exact information.
Coming to the historical period proper of Greek music, we cannot fail to be impressed with the broadly moral significance which music possessed for the Greeks. Among the Assyrians, it is to be imagined, music was more or less emotional in character. Among the Egyptians, it apparently shared of the nature of an occult philosophy. Among the Israelites, music was primarily an act of worship; and it is, therefore, to the Greeks that the credit of being the first to recognise that music was highly valuable as an educational resource.
Although not yet an independent art, music probably gained very nearly as much as it lost in this respect, by being made an essential part of the literary and dramatic genius of Greece. Thus, the Greek play resembled more an opera than a play, however, with the music strictly subdued in favour of more dramatic interest. Perhaps the simplest way of making clear the musical aspect of the Greek drama would be to say that a Greek play was like an opera of which the composer wrote the libretto and the librettist wrote the music.
Sometimes the Greek dramatist, as in the case of GEschylus, composed the music to his own tragedies. Sophocles also accompanied the performance of one of his plays upon the cithara (an instrument of the harp kind).
Other than fragments of musical work, which it would be difficult to absolutely accept as authentic, there are no musical compositions of the ancient Greeks now known to be in existence. There has been preserved, however, a considerable amount of Greek literature about music, including the theoretical writings of Aristoxenus (B.C. 300), Euclid (B.C. 277), Nicho-machus (A.D. 60), Alypius (A.D. 115), Bacchius (A.D. 140), Aristides Quintilianus (A.D. no), and others.
Of these Aristoxenus wrote upon the Elements of Harmonics, Euclid wrote an Introduction, to Harmonics, Nichomachus an Introduction to Harmony, Alypius a work on musical notation, Bacchius, supposed to have been tutor to the Emperor Antoninus, was the author of a short Introduction to Music, in dialogue form. Aristides Quintilianus wrote a treatise, “De Musica,” in three books.
These writers, and others, have perpetuated the theoretical systems of the Greeks. Although they give us little or no hint of the practical application of the same, and it is upon their works that the earliest theorists of Europe based their further efforts towards the construction of a musical system at once logical, scientific, and capable of allowing the emotional side of man’s musical nature free play.
Mike Shaw is an organist and keyboard player and owns music websites http://www.mikesmusicroom.co.uk/ and http://www.keyboardsheetmusic.co.uk/
Article republished from Copy & Paste Articles
By Mike Shaw
The musical history of the Greeks may be divided into two great periods, the historical, and the mythological. The mythological period covers the entire range of traditions and legends, up to the time of the Olympiads, the date of the first Olympiad being 776 B.C. From 776 B.C. to 161 A.D. is the historical period.
To the mythological period belong the stories of Eurydice and Orpheus. Perhaps the noblest and most beautiful of all the fairy tales of art, the building of Thebes and Cadmea by Amphion, who by his playing supposedly caused the stones and rocks to move spontaneously. The contest between the myth of the Sirens, Apollo and Marsyas, and numberless other stories and traditions with which the Hellenic mind loved to surround, as with many garlands, the art of music.
The poet Homer, provides us with a link between the traditional and historical periods, and in the “Iliad” and the “Odyssey” are to be found both legend and exact information.
Coming to the historical period proper of Greek music, we cannot fail to be impressed with the broadly moral significance which music possessed for the Greeks. Among the Assyrians, it is to be imagined, music was more or less emotional in character. Among the Egyptians, it apparently shared of the nature of an occult philosophy. Among the Israelites, music was primarily an act of worship; and it is, therefore, to the Greeks that the credit of being the first to recognise that music was highly valuable as an educational resource.
Although not yet an independent art, music probably gained very nearly as much as it lost in this respect, by being made an essential part of the literary and dramatic genius of Greece. Thus, the Greek play resembled more an opera than a play, however, with the music strictly subdued in favour of more dramatic interest. Perhaps the simplest way of making clear the musical aspect of the Greek drama would be to say that a Greek play was like an opera of which the composer wrote the libretto and the librettist wrote the music.
Sometimes the Greek dramatist, as in the case of GEschylus, composed the music to his own tragedies. Sophocles also accompanied the performance of one of his plays upon the cithara (an instrument of the harp kind).
Other than fragments of musical work, which it would be difficult to absolutely accept as authentic, there are no musical compositions of the ancient Greeks now known to be in existence. There has been preserved, however, a considerable amount of Greek literature about music, including the theoretical writings of Aristoxenus (B.C. 300), Euclid (B.C. 277), Nicho-machus (A.D. 60), Alypius (A.D. 115), Bacchius (A.D. 140), Aristides Quintilianus (A.D. no), and others.
Of these Aristoxenus wrote upon the Elements of Harmonics, Euclid wrote an Introduction, to Harmonics, Nichomachus an Introduction to Harmony, Alypius a work on musical notation, Bacchius, supposed to have been tutor to the Emperor Antoninus, was the author of a short Introduction to Music, in dialogue form. Aristides Quintilianus wrote a treatise, “De Musica,” in three books.
These writers, and others, have perpetuated the theoretical systems of the Greeks. Although they give us little or no hint of the practical application of the same, and it is upon their works that the earliest theorists of Europe based their further efforts towards the construction of a musical system at once logical, scientific, and capable of allowing the emotional side of man’s musical nature free play.
Mike Shaw is an organist and keyboard player and owns music websites http://www.mikesmusicroom.co.uk/ and http://www.keyboardsheetmusic.co.uk/
Article republished from Copy & Paste Articles
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