Heber Prez - Speaking

Circle 1
Language is a behavior, not a physical attribute. the modern vocal tract seems to have
arrived much later. So early human ancestors probably used gestures to communicate

There is a lot of rhythm when a parent speaks to a baby, a lot of exaggerated pitch
contours, and people have speculated that this way of communicating with infants
may have been one of the important roots to language in our species.

it's possible that language emerged without help from either gestures or music. It
might have come from a behavior you see in another smart mammal with a long life
span: the killer whale.
Scientists have shown that calls from whales in the same pod share a distinctive
dialect, which seems to help them identify one another.

Our ancestors also lived in small groups where affiliation and identity was important.
So perhaps they began making distinctive sounds for the same reason whales did, he
says, and these sounds eventually led to language

Our brains process music and language in a similar fashion. But just finding a
connection between music and language doesn't prove that music came first

Circle 2
The term "classical music" did not appear until the early 19th century, in an attempt
to distinctly canonize the period from Johann Sebastian Bach to Beethoven as a
golden age.

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western music,
including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

While a more accurate term is also used to refer to the period from 1750 to 1820 (the
Classical period), this speaking is about the broad span of time from roughly the 11th
century to the present day which includes the Classical period and various other
periods.
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Western tonal music has a long tradition, its roots are founded in gregorian chants
during the 9th and 10th centuries.

Typical melodic features include a characteristic ambitus, and also characteristic

intervallic patterns relative to a referential mode final, incipits and cadences

Multi-voice elaborations of Gregorian chant, known as organum (counterpoint of

fiths), were an early stage in the development of Western polyphony

Gregorian chants evolve to baroque music with Bach as the master of this era. Then
Classical period arrived starting with Haydn and finishing with Schubert. Then
Romanticism emerged with Listz and Chopin. Years later impresionism appered with
Ravel and Debussy. By this time music branches in different styles:

Classical Music: Atonalism (Schoenberg, Scriabin) --> Modernism (Stravisky,

Prokofiev)
Black Music: Blues --> Ragtime (Scott Joplin) --> Jazz --> Soul --> RnB ---> Rap
Rock: Blues --> Rock --> Heavy Metal
Pop music is a mix of everything.

Circle 4

Classical music always has been an elitist activity. It appeals to a limited percentage
of the population. In the past, in order to hear classical music, you had to live in a city
or town that had an orchestra. Rarely was that orchestra self supporting. It was often
established and sustained by the local government or nobility.

Reading music was not easy, most of the population was iliterate, except rich people
and not all of them knew who to read sheet music.

Now, so long as you have internet access and a device, you can listen to any piece of
classical music you could ever want to hear for a few euros or for free. Classical
music is not in danger, the structure of classical music consumption is changing and
that's a good thing.

To enjoy classical music is not necessary has knowledge of music theory but be able
of listening. People nowdays are used to hearing but not listening and that's the main
problem. Classical music is considered hard music beacuse appeals to pay attention.
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Nowdays anyone can learn to play an instrument thanks to youtube. There are tons of
videos with amazing explanations on how to read music, music theory, music history
and almost anything you can imagine. You just need some time, patience, and
practice.

Software music can be of help for amateurs musicians. For example, there is a
software called Synthesia that shows a piano keyboard, you just need to load a midi
file and press play. The notes will start falling down to the keyboard lighting the keys
as the music goes, indicating what notes you must play.

Several concert musicians have started to use tablets as music sheets. The Brussels
Philharmonic Orchestra has decided to start using tablet computers to read their
music during performances instead of traditional paper sheet music. Composers will
be able to deliver their work faster to the orchestra, but also make notes and
annotations in real time, without worrying that these will be unreadable or without
the need of transcribing entire sheets of music.Musicians will share the scores faster
and on the go if needed, not to mention the storage space and the printing costs saved.

Circle 6

If one were to take a surface view of the state of classical music today, one might
reasonably assume that it is a dying practice. On top of that, one could reasonably
point to consistently declining CD and Mp3 sales in classical music as evidence of an
inevitable death of this art. So why aren't more young people showing an interest in
classical music?

Some may say that classical music is outdated and because of that, young people
aren't interested. I have yet to meet a single one who was not genuinely interested in
classical music when you discard all of the artificial, "classical" rules that usually
accompany it.

Breaking down such "classical" rules will kill "classical" music -- and thus save it. It
will make the artform more accessible, more entertaining, and more disinhibiting,
allowing for all of us to share more emotion and passion through the music. It will
welcome those of us who are interested yet apprehensive about making the leap to
buy a ticket to a concert.
But Is Classical Music Actually Dying? It certainly depends on who you ask, but in
the grand scheme of things, I would assuredly say no.

Classical influences in rock or pop music arent anything new. But now, its almost de
rigueur for cutting edge rock artists to integrate orchestrations into their work, from
Arcade Fire to Sufjan Stevens to Radiohead. This generation of alternative rock
musicians is more steeped in classical music than any previous generation.

Soundtracks to video games have brought a younger generation to classical music, a

new poll of the nations favourite pieces suggests.Three of the top 20 from Classic
FMs Hall of Fame poll are soundtracks to video games and another 9 make the top
300.