My Purpose

My Purpose

The purpose of this blog is to help people understand that music can be more then just entertainment, and what those things are. I want be able to help people with this blog. I don't know everything about music, I am still studying it, however, I will share what I have found. I hope you will be enlighted and edified by what I have to share. I worry that some people might turn a deaf ear to my blog if they read something on this blog that they don't agree with. I respect your beliefs. I don't agree with everything I read either. But I know you can find something that can help and interest you, if you just keep reading.

"Quotes Worth Mentioning"

QUOTES WORTH MENTIONING

When asked where his inspiration came from, Johannes Brahms said, "I immediately feel vibrations that thrills my whole being. These are the Spirit illuminating the soul power within, and in this exalted state, I see clearly what is obscure in my ordinary moods: Then I feel capable of drawing inspiration from above, as Beethoven ... Straighway the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration. Measure by measure, the finished product is revealed to me when I am in those rare, inspired moods." "The powers from which all truly great composers like Mozart, Schubert, Bach and Beethoven drew their inspiration is the same power that enabled Jesus to work his miracles. It is the same power that created our earth and the whole universe"
("Talks with Great Composers", Arthur M. Abell)

"Give me power over he who shapes the music of a nation, and I care not for who shapes it laws"
Napolian Bonaparte

“Intellectual enlightenment consists of instruction in the arts, numbers, history, speech, and government. Music consummates a man’s life, giving his rituals meaning. Music has a trensforming effect on its listeners, and should be the first principle of government.” -The Teachings of Confucius.

I quote some remarks between,Gene R. Cook, and Mik Jagger made a few years ago:
Cook: "I have the opportunity to be with a lot of young people. Many say your music does not affect them adversely in any way. Others say it effects them in a very bad way. What is your opinion? What is your impact?”
Jagger "Our music is calculated to drive the kids to sex. It's not my fault what they do. It's up to them. I'm just making a lot of money.”
Cook: He was in Mexico making a profane and pornographic music video because the cost is 1/3 there. In addition it is easier to produce such videos there at the moment. He explained that though such videos with explicit sexual behavior is illegal on US national television, it soon will be, and they want to have the videos ready. Now not only audio pornography can be portrayed, but they can view it as well. He was making more money this way."
Jagger:“It doesn't matter what you do in life, there are no rules. There is no god. You can take whatever you want. It doesn't matter."

"To encourage literature and the arts is the duty which every good citizen owns to his country."
George Washington

"Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it."
Aristotle



(more qoutes to come)

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Monday, May 30, 2011

Music's Effect on Water

Here something that stuck me profoundly.  A Japanese scientist Dr, Emoto took pictures of water molecules while different music was being played.  Here some examples of when classical music was played

<----Beethoven's Pastorale




 Bach's " Air for the G string " ---->





Now here is what happened when heavy metal music was played,
knowing that, now think about it when I tell you that about 72% of your body is made up of water.  I think it tells us a lot about how music effects peoples minds and bodies.  Not only this, but the countless scientific studies on how music effects us.

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Thank you Readers

Hello to readers, I am still learning how to work a blog and as I was looking around today,  I found that I could learn how many people have been viewing my blog.  I am so pleased that people are viewing this blog.  I hope I am helping people with it.  That is my whole purpose for this blog.  Please leave comments if you have any you wish to share, or any advice to help me to learn more about my blog, especially how to share it more.  I would also like to see what my readers think about my blog.  There is one thing that concerns me. I share info about how music is used for a variaty of things.  I know some people that would turn a deaf ear to my blog when they see that I have shared info about things they don't agree with and that is okay if they do not agree.  I respect your beliefs.  I don't agree with every thing I read either.  But please do not quit reading, I am certian that you will find something that can help or interest you.  I have over a hundred pages of info so far given to me by Michael Ballam PhD popsted on my blog.  If you find something that you like on my blog, Please fell free to share with others so they can learn about these things too.  I don't like asking favours much, but please tell others about my blog.  On facebook, twitter or however.  I know that people can be benefited by what I have to share.  Thank you again for view my blog.  I don't feel that I am not reaching people anymore. 
If you have read from the oldest posts and noticed that the first few post that are data that I recieved from Dr. Ballam(as indicated at the top of the posts) All posts from those to the post right before this one are also his info that he gave me.  unless otherwise indicated. 

Thursday, May 5, 2011

THE THREE C’S

(this is some information that I received from Dr. Michael Ballam, this information is unedited notes of Dr. Ballam, hence there are the spelling error and typos. It is my intent to not edit them for the purpuse of not risking to change the meaning of the text. It is my desire to inform you of these errors so as to not take away any credibiliy from Dr. Ballam because of possible impressions that these mistakes may have on people to lower his credibility.)
THE THREE C’S
We could distill the report above to be the three C’s 1. Community - the ability to work with others. 2. Creativity - the ability to make something from nothing, and 3. Communication - the ability to convey meaning Where in today’s expanding curriculum are we making room for these abilities to be nurtured and developed? Do we learn community and creativity in the math class? Do we learn how to communicate in the science class? No we do not. That is not the objective of those courses. They hold a different purpose. The U.S. Department of Labor goes on in their report to characterize math and science and the basic “R’s” of reading, writing and arithmetic as tools or means not as ends unto themselves. They warn th

I AM MUSIC

I AM MUSIC
Servant and Master am I; Servant of those dead and Master of those living. Through me, spirits of immortals speak the message that makes the world weep and laugh, and wonder and worship. I tell the story of love, the story of hate, the story that saves, and the story that damns. I am the incense upon which prayers float to Heaven. I am the smoke which palls over the field of battle where men are dying with me on their lips. I am close to the marriage altar, and when the graves open, I stand nearby. I call the wanderer home, I rescue the soul from the depths, I open the lips of the lovers, and through the dead, whisper to the living. One I serve as I serve all, and the king I make my slave as easily as I subject his slave I speak through the birds of the air, the insects of the fields, the crash of water on rock-ribbed shores I am even heard by the soul that knows me in the clatter of wheels on city streets. I know no brother, yet all men are my brothers: I am the father of the best that is in them, and they are the father of the best that is in me. I am the instrument of God. I AM MUSIC.

OPERA FESTIVAL

OPERA FESTIVAL
Since 1998, the Utah Festival Opera has presented a festival of these original operas by children in a beautifully restored theatre in Logan, Utah each spring. Most recently the opera company completed and presented 44 original operas by children from the ages of kindergarten to middle school. The results have been astonishing on so many levels. Not only has it caused the children to want to attend school more regularly as a result of creating their own works, but their interest and proficiency in other academic areas have been enhanced. Teachers have remarked about the core curriculum being easier to present and better retained when the children are involved in creative activity. The atmosphere in the class room has improved, discipline problems have lessened and participation in all areas of school have been enhanced. Some truly remarkable things have occurred from autistic children, who for the first time have participated and communicated as well, to children in middle grades having no reading skills all of a sudden finding the means to catch up with their classmates in reading. We have seen self esteem grow causing painfully shy children to open up and communicate with their peers and teachers. Some children have broken through learning plateaus and subject phobias to find success and joy in learning. I’m not sure I can articulate all of the reasons such wonderful ansillary things have occured through this work, but surely some of the reasons are enhanced self esteem (confidence), the strength and understanding that comes from working and sharing together, the cognitive enhancement of using both hemispheres of the brain, the non-judgemental environment of the arts, the creative opportunities to communicate beyond verbal expression. What ever the reasons, the results are clear.