*Bam Chicka Wa Wa*

Such a long time since my last blog update 😛
Here i am,back again (:
It has been a pretty busy and hectic week after all.
Revisions,revisions and revisions.
One more month to trials.
God help me 😀
It was kinda suckish.
Haven tasted cheesecake..for like?months?haha..
Kinda miss home though.
Going back next week!
and don’t have to take bus back too!
Bro gonna come and fetch me!
wooh! (:

Going to Bluunis tomorrow with the girls! 😀
And gonna have the chance to eat cheesecake! (:
Signing out,arising super early tomorrow just for the fun of it.
It is really nice waking up early..
Now only i realise.
Not too late though ^^

OUT++

Baroque 3

Ballet de Cour

The ballet de cour was a french adaptation of a type of entertainment used in Italy to honor important visitors or celebrate events such a s weddings and baptisms.
It took root in France with the entertainments for the marriage of Catherine de’ Medici and King Henry II in 1533.
The ingredients of these festivals-unconnected intermezzos between acts of plays,entries of masked dancers in both indoor and outdoor feasts,pantomimes,processions of decorated floats in public parades,dances in which the courtiers participated-were blended into new union of the arts in the ballet de cour.

The first ballet with a grand unifying design and a central theme was, Circe, commisioned by the Queen Mother Catherine de’ Medici for the marriage of King Henry III’s sister-in-law Marguerite de Vaudemont with Anne d’Arques,Duc de Joyeuse in 1581.
Known as the Ballet comique de la reine,it was created by the violinist and ballet dancing master from Piedmont,Italy,Baltazarini di Belgioioso(Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx).
Dancing masters accustomed to play tunes,often of their noble pupils,and it is therefore not a coincidence that many of them were violinists.Lully was famous as a violinist and composer of dance airs before he began composing operas.

Eventually the ballet de cour acquired a conventional sequence of events:a grand chorus addressed to the king and ladies,followed by a set of entries of dancers illustrating the main theme.
Each entry was preseded by a recit-a song,often strophic-that narrated this situation,accompanied by a lute.
The dances were grouped in sets,or suites,in which slow alternated with fast.
The entertainment closed with the grand ballet.
The orchestra that accompanied the dances was dominated by strings-members of the violin family,approximately twenty-four in number-augmented by cornetts,lutes.oboe.flutes.and bagpipes.
The music was usually scored in five parts with thoroughbass.
Not all the instrumental music was simply dance music;often it accompanied pantomme and delinated a mood,a nationality,or a grotesque character,or it imitated sounds of birds,battles,hunting calls,storms,and the like.

This is like a recap of the book i read few days back,it is all about the music styles during the baroque period.And how the music were like.

Baroque 2

The Basso Continuo

A similar development is observable instrumental practice.
Formerly,whatever instrumental parts were printed appeared in partbooks,tablatures, or scores.
The very popular one is the Cavalieri’s Godi.
With only the treble and bass before him,a player of keyboard instrument,harp, or lute could improvise an accompanimet that better suited his instrument and his hands.
The necessary treble-bass sketches must have existed years before they began to appear in print in the 1600s.
In the music score of Cavalieri,
the only instrumental part given under the voice is the bass line.
Over the notes of the bass appear numbers and signs such as 11,7, and 6/4.
the numbers instruct the player of a keyboard or lutelike instrument to include in the chord over the bass the eleventh,seventh,or sixth and fourth notes,counting the bass note as one.
For example,11 over the D calls for the G an octave-plus-a-fourth above.
When no number occurs over a bass note,the player builds a chord with the third or tenth above the bass,major or minor,whichever belongs to the key.
Normally,a fifth or twelfth above the bass is also played,but when the number 6 is present,the sixth or one of its compounds replaces the fifth as a component of the chord.
Thsusually occurs in connection with a suspension.
A solution-or “realization” as it is usually called.

The practice of “figuring” basses continued throughout the baroque period and beyond,but after the first years of the 17th century composers stopped specifying the octave in which they wanted the dissonances,writing a 4 instead of 11,for example.
Not all composers tool the pains to figure their basses;some assumed that the player would judge which chord was necessary by reading the upper part(s).
Italian opera composers tended to be lax in this, although Corelli and Bach, for example,figured their basses punctiliously.

Whether figure or not,a bass that was meant to serve as the foundation for an improvised accompaniment was called a basso continuo or throughbass.
It is called this because it was continuously present,even when there were rests in the bass voices or instruments.
It is obvious that the basso continuo was a handy device for the accompanist,who was thereby spared the onus of reading a score containing numerous parts written usually in different several clefs.
More appealing now was the testure of one or two solo parts,very often in treble range,highlighted against a bass.
At first this bass was a static one,little more thn the foundation for a series of chords,but soon it acquired rhythmic momentum and melodic interest,which restored some balance between it and the upper parts.
Composers became quite indiferent to the specific details of the chordal filling that closed the gap between these outer parts.The duty of compeling the composition fell to the performers.

Next:Ballet de Cour

Baroque 1

A baroque music is that in which the harmony is confused,
charged with modulations and dissonances,
the melody is harsh and little natural,
the intonation difficult,
and the movement constrained.
It seems that this term comes from the baroco the logicians.

Baroque is mostly a music style used by religious song composers.
In baroque church music are embraced styles as opposed as the passions of Schutz and the cantatas of Bach.
It was applied to music earlier than any of the other arts.

Behind the traits that marked music as baroque,then,were their reason for being:
the passions ,or as they were more often called then,the affections.
Affects are not the same as emotions.
A sixteenth-century poetic critic,Lorenzo Giacomini,
defined an affection as “a spiritual movement or operation of the mind in which it is attracted or repelled by an object it has come to know”
He described it as a result of an imbalance in the animal spirits and vapors that flow continually throughout the body.
An abundance of thin and agile spirits disposes a person to joyous affection,
while torpid and impure vapours prepare the way to sorrow and fear.

Next:The Basso Continuo

Music

The word ‘MUSIC’ covers a lot of territory.
It runs from the tunes people whistle,
to pieces teenagers trying to identify themselves,
to music created to inspire patriotic or religious feelings,
to complex music works that prove our psychological beings.

Different types of music is for the different purposes.
In order to add a dimension to life,that is only available through the arts.
Whether one calls it ‘subjective reality’,
the ‘aesthetic mind’,
the ‘world of feelings’,
‘artistic’,
or ‘poetic’.

Certainly,they are valuable aspects of human life,
in terms of expressing how a person feels.
For example,look at the following lines which are from the Old Testament of the Bible.
It tells about how the ancient Isrealites will feel when they freed from Babylon.

For you shall go out in joy,
and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and the hills before you
shall break forth into singing,
and all the trees of the field
shall clap their hands.

It does not merely means that,
‘you are going to feel the mighty God when you are freed’

It is more than just THAT,which somehow cannot be expressed through words alone,
but it may be expressed through arts,poets and better of all-Music.

The next few blahs will be about the Baroque style music.

“Music makes a difference in the lives of people.”

Don’t Say Goodbye

nun matchuji motanun gudael ilgul su obtjyo
girul irhoborin ai gataso gidarigoman itjyo

oton marul halgonji sashil nan algo itjyo
jinshimi aningol nunchi chaengollyo nunmuri malhajanhayo

Don’t say goodbye
gu sonul nochi mallanun maumi dullyoyo
gudae mami dullyoyo ajik namanul wonhajyo
gudaen sumgil su obtjyo gudaen gojitmarul motajyo

horakhal su obsoyo heojijan gojitmal
nunul bogo malhaebwayo anijanhayo jinshim anijanhayo

Don’t say goodbye
gu sonul nochi mallanun maumi dullyoyo
gudae mami dullyoyo sesangi dung dollyodo himdun sarangirado
You are my love, you are my soul

Don’t say goodbye don’t leave me now oh~
hamke nanun yaksogi naegen jonbuingollyo

Don’t say goodbye You are my everything to me
jichin nae harunun hangsang gudael chatgetjyo
maruji annnun saemchorom gudael saranghalkeyo
You are my love, you are my soul

Don’t say good bye you are the only one for me
obsotdon ilchorom onuri to jinamyon
soro mamul nochi anko modu igyonaegetjyo
Cause you are my everything to me

Cause you are my everything to me

—————-english translation——————

I can’t read your feelings since you try not to meet eyes with me,
Because I feel like a lost child, I just wait

Thruthfully, I know what you’re going to say,
But I can feel that it’s not your whole heart; your tears tell me

Don’t say goodbye,
I can hear your heart telling me not to let go of your hands,
I can hear you heart; You still want me,
You can’t hide it, you can’t lie

I won’t allow it – your lie of wanting to separate,
Look in my eyes and tell me,
It’s not…it’s not the truth

Don’t say goodbye,
I can hear your heart telling me not to let go of your hands,
I can hear your heart; Even if the world turns its back on us; Even if it’s a painful love,
You are my love, you are my soul

Don’t say goodbye, don’t leave me now,
The promises we’ve shared is everything to me

Don’t say goodbye, you are my everything to me,
My tired days only look for you,
Like a pond which won’t dry, I’ll love you,
You are my love, you are my soul

Don’t say goodbye, you are the only one for me,
As if nothing has happened, if today passes,
Let’s not let go of each other, and we’ll make it through,
Cause you are my everything to me,
Cause you are my everything to me

Does Love really conquer all?

Life’s cycle (:

My Kind Of Boy

Now, here’s what you’re supposed to do, and please do not spoil the fun. Copy and paste this into your blog post.

if you a guy- post this as my kind of girl.
if your a girl- post it as my kind of boy.

1.Do you need him/her to be good looking??
good looking would be the bonus i guess,it’s the heart that matters.

2. Smart?
as long as he’s not doink 😛

3. Preferred age?
Older than me for a few years (:

4. Preferred height?
Taller than me of course.

5. How about sense of humor?
Umm..not too much..haha

6. How about piercings?
better if don’t have any.

7. Accepts you for who you are?
sure thing.

8. Pink hair?
HAHAHAHAHA!(no.)

9. Mushy or no?
not to other people la 😛

10. Thin or fat?
normal la.doesn’t really matters btw.

11. Black, Brown or White (skin color)?
No preference.

12. Long hair or short hair?
As long as he looks nice. 🙂

13. Plastic or metal?
what???!!

14. Smells good?
as long as he does not stink.haha!

15. Smoker?
UGH! NOPE

16. Drinker?
little bit will be okay.

17. Girl/Boy-next-door type?
umm…

18. Musically inclined?
does not matters much.

19. Plays piano?
i dont mind.

20. Plays bass and/or acoustic guitar?
cool (:

21. Plays violin?
don’t mind.

22. Sings very good?
does not matters.

23. Vain?
not to the extent.

24. With glasses?
as long as he looks good with it.

25. With braces?
I don’t mind 🙂

26. Shy type?
Not TOO shy

27. Rebel or good boy/girl?
a bit of both? 😛

28. Active or passive?
BOTH

29. Tight or bomb?
meaning?

30. Singer or dancer?
both?haha!

31. stunner?
wooh!

32. Hiphop?
okay with it.

33. Earrings?
Refer to piercings question

34. Mr/Ms. count-my-ex-girlfriends-until-you-drop?
nope

35. Dimples?
gonna be cute with that.haha!

36. Bookworm?
not too wormy 😛

37. Mr/Ms. love letter?
As long as he’s romantic

38. Playful?
yeah,interesting!

39. Flirt?
Flirt with me, but not with others.haha!

40. Poem writer?
nice (:

41. Serious?
not all the time.knows when to be serious.

42. Campus crush?
depends.

43. Painter?
That would be nice.

44. Religious?
Yes! 😀

45. Someone who likes to tease people?
Not to the extent.

46. Computer games geek? Or internet freak?
if we share the same interest in certain game,that would be nice.I am an internet freak btw 😛

47. Speaks 20 languages?
as long as he speaks my language too (:

48. Loyal or faithful?
BOTH!

49. Good kisser
yeah 😛

50. loves children??
yeah (:

Junie
Nora
Teong Huan (tagged for the rest of his life by my taggies)
YOU!

Whispers

I wish I could tell you how much I care

but all I can do is sit and stare.

I don’t know how to explain this pain

it’s driving me crazy

not being able to let it out-

I think I’ll go insane.

You are special to me

in so many different ways

I don’t know exactly

what sets you apart from the rest

but you’ve stolen my heart

straight from my chest.

It was locked with a key

opened only by me

’cause I didn’t want to let anyone else in

but I opened it to you and let you in

and again over my mind my heart wins.

A feeling this strong can’t be ignored

my heart has been whispering… have you heard?

-Josie Doolan-