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No matter the genre of interest, every person in the world is affected by music. Sometimes music triggers a memory that is associated with a certain song, melody or sound, and a sense of nostalgia washes over you. For the most part though, music has the ability to make us happy. Although most people don’t know why. (more…)

Woodwinds, brass instruments… Every musician knows about these groups of instruments, included in symphony orchestra. But is it so simple? Of course no! It would be naive to believe, that, for example, flutes, oboes, clarinets and bassoons are made of wood. What the symphonic orchestra all the same consists of? Let’s see what materials made symphony orchestra.

Wood. In the old days it was a very popular material in making musical instruments. Flutes and oboes were making of the different types of wood. Usually it was a hard wood. For example can be found cherry flute or pear oboe. At the present time mutes for trumpets, sticks for percussion instruments and handpieces for them are making of wood.

Separately it is necessary to tell that each part of a violin (and other string instruments) should be made from certain breed of wood. Thus, one violin comprises some breeds from different parts of the world. (more…)

Why they compose music?

The first composers lived eight hundred years ago. During eight centuries music was composing. And today each moment some composers are writing music in a lot of points on Earth. But why do they do it? What motivation to composing music these people have? A little thought we can see the following motives:

Money.

Composing of music can be profitable? Yes, but only at special cases. For example: if a composer works on a film company and writes music for movies he can get good money. For example Dmitry Shostakovich and Georgy Sviridoff have made music for a lot of films. If some firm makes advertisement video this firm may order composing music from a composer, and he will get good honorary. Some people have opinion that music what made to order cant be good. It isn’t true. A lot of great composers, such as Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Igor Stravinsky, made music of genius to order. Writing of popular songs also may be profitable.

Self-expression.

Some composers write music because they feel necessity to express their soul and mind in musical language. These people get psychological satisfaction from composing.

Boredom.

If a person is able to write music, and he has nothing to make, he will write music perhaps. So, he will rid himself of boredom and may be will write something interesting. (more…)

Just some of the professional musicians have perfect pitch. There are around ten percent of such musicians in European orchestras. And among the common people, only one from every ten thousand has absolute pitch.

It is believed that early contact children with music increase ability to accurately identify the pitch. In this case, the skill to recall a melody is formed by the three or four years. People with absolute pitch, often unconsciously analyze background noise, which the average person does not notice, or at least does not give them much importance.

The perfect ear helps to accurately control the sound of fretless instruments like as violin or cello. At the same time, some musicians with perfect ear, have problems when they have to play in an orchestra or band, where the tuning of musical instruments slightly shifted. The brain, accustomed to harmonious scale, (more…)

Over the past three hundred years, about two hundred projects of artificial languages was invited. Unfortunately, all of them were fallen into oblivion, as have been unsuccessful. An interesting musical language, called “sol-re-sol” was created in 1817.

The author was a Frenchman, Jean Francois Syudr. He published the rules of their language in 1817. For forty years, his followers developed a grammar, vocabulary, and theory of the language. In 1868 in Paris, there were writings some compositions using that language. (more…)

Total force produced by all of stretched strings of the piano is 7 tons (7,000 kg). This huge amount of potential energy, hidden inside the piano, can lift up a small truck.  If you change the tune of piano just a semitone down, the force will reduced by 1-2 tonnes.

Unlike the piano, the force produced by the strings of a guitar much less. It as few as 30-50 kg. The strength of the strings, also depends on the type of guitar and how people make tune adjustment. If you increase in tuning the guitar a tone down, the force will increase by 26%.