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Sabtu, 08 Agustus 2009

Music, the Universal Language Limited

The phrase "music is the universal language" has long become obsolete slogan, which only tends to be a sweetener in the articles of the music. While the expression of which is contra to the motion does not claim to believe.

The phrase is often a sense that is universal because everyone can enjoy, without further explanation. While for the counter claim if the music is a universal language, then of course the UN has been using music as a means of communication.

Music is not a conventional language such as Indonesian Language, English, Arabic, Chinese, and others. However, as a system that is capable of representing the atmosphere, feelings, and ideas, the music is able to exceed in the conventional language what is universal. However, music is not able to convey the message more specific.

As a "universal language", music to easily convey the feeling-the feeling of a global, such as: sad, happy, spirit, haru, and others, to all mankind. However, quite difficult to convey the message simple and specific. Such "Mother wanted to go to market" or "Goat is very fat." On the specific kind of message is easily delivered by conventional language, but in limited linguistic community.

In the language of music, both western and eastern people will agree that the song is not a flower fallen lilt, while the songs and seek Destroynya Metalica song is not sad. Because the music was delivered to anyone in the womb it's universal.

Is all the technical people will agree that the major akor more can be said is "bright" compared akor minor. The same is not subject to all over the world ters if the interval is the interval konsonant while seconde interval is dissonant intervals. Situlah location in the primary language universality music.


Music and Lyrics.
As a language, has two elements musikpun symbol. Both the oral form of the symbol rhythm and tone, and any posts symbols (text) form of notation, tablatur, graphics, and others. However, the position between verbal symbols and text in music does not quite equal as in the conventional language in general.

In the conventional language, both oral and written relativ able to convey the message quite clear what diembannya. Meanwhile, in the music, the language of text that is not quite as universal language lisannya.

A symbol akor C Major, or A minor, is not universal enough in describing how the atmosphere is brought. Meanwhile, if the text dilisankan, then it will direct the womb feels universal.

When the habit in the form of popular music add lyric (conventional languages, or often referred to with the lyrics) to the melody in a song, the lyrics tibalah time silent melody, harmony, and rhythm to convey the message more specific. But at the same limit as well keuniversalannya.

National songs are usually delivered with a palpable sense of guts on the entire human being in the world, apart from the chaos of the cross of two or three koplet lyrics are authentic. However, specific message about freedom and love of the country of Indonesia will not be until the lyrics that anyone without them.

Limited Language
Is a keniscayaan if each language has limitations. Because the language just shadow of every idea in the mind of man. The whole language is not capable of something like the picture he is in himself.

Such a simple concept atmosphere grief, an-sich, not simply be described with the word depression itself. Especially for people who can not speak Indonesian. Alphabetical order of sorrow, Just one does not have any meaning related to the atmosphere of grief itself. While the concept of a global kind of "depression" will be more universal when expressed in the form of music.

In the conventional language manapunpun, to the concept of a more complex, meaning the word "God" for example. Will never be able to describe "God" as He is in himself. Moreover, the language seglobal music. Certainly not easy.

Universal language can be captured easily by anyone. But always have a lack of material limitations to express something specific. Facial expression, for example, angry or sad expression of a universal face can be read by all men in the world. However, expression does not quite able to define the word "culture" for example.

Similarly, the language of music is universal, but limited to the global sense-feelings. Reasonable if the music is not able to convey the idea, or a more specific description. Of course if there is a musician who is able to convey ideas with a specific language to music (without lyrics) should be acknowledged that he was a musician who is very strong.

However, the music will be felt very universal when we compare the language used of God in the universe set. Because the use of language with the use of the same set in the music. There is melody, harmony, and rhythm.

Source : Doni Riwayanto

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Jumat, 31 Juli 2009

Some Reason for waiting songs dream theater 2009

Some Reason for waiting songs dream theater 2009:

* Want to hear the ringing tone akrobatik-typical progressive metal.
* In love with DT died since the album "Images and Words."
* Wish there ballad.
* One buy, suppose the type of music A-Rock turbulence see posters John Myung.
* Most of the article read the article-hot dream about the theater in 2009.

Whatever the reason, for you who have heard the "Black Clouds & Silver Linings", and have heard one of the best albums in 2009 (according to me). Although it only consists of 6 songs, but will satisfy the average DT fans, progressive metal fan, and search the beautiful music of the soul (even though the souls of a particular course).

1. A Nightmare to Remember (3 / 5)

The song is filled with the double blow of energy from the pedal Mike Portnoy, and occasionally touching ranah Thrash / speed metal. Although not a memorable song, boring and tend to be too long. Even duel guitar / keyboards John Petrucci / Jordan Rudess took boring (except the arpeggio). At least the impression that if you want to show is the "nightmare" (appropriate title), the dark mood and style is simply a song that represents the effect.

2. A Rite of Passage (5 / 5)

The song is very fitting (according to the laws progressive), seen from the length (8:35) and music composition. Chorusnya cool, melody accompaniment John Petrucci sounds amazing grace, and as the progressive pattern of the wild but regular (bingung kan), a music-I can derail, and somehow suddenly have entered a path to get more. Well done!

3. Wither (5 / 5)

Ballad is never die. Calculate how many groups of bands (even though sesangar any) that has a power ballad pledge, not the exception of Dream Theater with the numbers balladnya, for example, "Another Day".

On this album, "Wither" is a ballad tracks are offered, the only songs that do progressive, listen to and enjoy on a special moment, and guaranteed you will remember this song for life.

Even the guitar solo is so simple (for the class Petrucci), can arouse emotions in the so!

4. The Shattered Fortress (4 / 5)

I forget when DT often start singing bersahut-replication (LaBrie and Portnoy?), The prescription is less clear sign in my ear (with a different reply-replication Manowar version), but it may be to bring the impression sangar. "The Shattered Fortress" indeed seems to try to show a dark mood again but with the tempo variatif, and new songs in this show powernya James LaBrie. Some of the tone in this song is deliberately taken from the DT songs on different albums, which was incorporated in the series called The Twelve-step Suite (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-step_Suite). There is only idea-Mr. Portnoy!

5. The Best of Times (4 / 5)

Style of play, "The Best of Times" is similar to the style of Rush, of course with a more ferocious version, and my ear so happy to hear arpeggio-and beautifully fast arpeggio (Petrucci hey, you rock!). But ngomong-ngomong, I begin to feel vocal James LaBrie does not seperkasa first. I mean LaBrie vocal album in this ugly, but does not clearly indicate a power vocalist who is able to sing all the songs on the album "The Number of the Beast" from Iron Maiden is live!

6. The Count of Tuscany (4 / 5)

Along the track about 19 minutes, was opened with a solo guitar melodius of Petrucci, the songs started flowing, time and personnel-personnel DT performance gear solo exhibit with the collaboration of instruments and high-level, complex as well as delicious. The whole instrument is absorbed berakrobatik, but more and more difficult to remove the memories that vocal James LaBrie was never so saktinya berakrobatik, not just sing tone-the tone of the standard. At least, whoever is able to spin "Black Clouds & Silver Linings" approximately 3 s / d 5 times, may be able to understand the new asyiknya this album.
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Kamis, 16 Juli 2009

WOW Hits 2009

Album Review

WOW Hits 2009
collects 30 of the years biggest contemporary gospel/Christian rock hits including "God with Us" by Mercyme, "Jesus Messiah" by Chris Tomlin, "Set the World on Fire" by Jason Ingram, and "This Is Home" by Switchfoot. The two-disc, budget-priced set provides a nice cross section (pun intended) of modern CCM styles. ~ James Christopher Monger, All Music Guide




Well, that didn't take long. Last April, the masterminds behind the best-selling WOW series decided to revamp it by releasing three single-disc collections over a year's time, starting with WOW Hits 1, rather than the annual double-disc collection. Apparently, the idea bombed since WOW Hits 2009 has released in October right on schedule without missing a beat. Perhaps consumers weren't prepared to buy a WOW album in April so soon after the last October release, or maybe they were just too smart to recognize that three singles discs costs more than one double-disc set.

Still, one thing that WOW Hits 1 got right was its inclination toward timely hits. The WOW series has long struggled with this, but overall, WOW Hits 2009 does a reasonable job of compiling the biggest hits from Christian radio over the last year. In fact, a quick glance over the first disc's first seven tracks gives you a pretty good idea of what the Song of the Year nominees will likely be at the next Dove Awards in April 2009—MercyMe, Third Day, Chris Tomlin, and Steven Curtis Chapman for sure.

Also, Brandon Heath's "Give Me Your Eyes," NeedToBreathe's "Washed by the Water", and Natalie Grant's "In Better Hands," among others, are all recent hits that certainly deserve to be included. And admittedly, Michael W. Smith's live version of Hillsong's "Mighty to Save" is bound to get plenty of airplay in the months ahead.

Conversely, some tracks are late to the party. Point of Grace's "How You Live" earned Cindy Morgan a Dove for songwriting at the 2008 Dove Awards. Tenth Avenue North's "Love Is Here" was certainly a hit early in 2008, but it seems overkill to include it here after featuring it on the WOW Hits 1 collection six months earlier—an apparent sign of how badly that disc sold. And as usual, there are questionable inclusions of new artists on a compilation like this. Francesca Battistelli's "I'm Letting Go" certainly belongs here, but why is Remedy Drive's "All Along" included over their single "Daylight?" Should Matt Maher be included for a song popularized by Chris Tomlin in 2004? Was Fee's "All Because of Jesus" that big a hit? Should they, along with Above the Golden State and Nevertheless, really be included over mainstays like Sara Groves, Bebo Norman, Sanctus Real, Group 1 Crew, and Lincoln Brewster?

WOW Hits is back (though it never really left) and as usual, it offers a reasonable snapshot of the year's biggest songs to the uninitiated. However, as usual, it's an incomplete picture, favoring the most popular artists, and therefore the most promoted—not to be confused with the best the Christian industry has to offer.
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Rabu, 15 Juli 2009

Michael Jackson: The Ultimate Collection [BOX SET]

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Critic's Review Album
By Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

A year -- nearly to the day -- after Epic released the single-disc Number Ones compilation in November 2003, the long-awaited Michael Jackson box set finally saw the light of day. Entitled The Ultimate Collection, the 57-track set spans five discs -- four CDs and one DVD containing a live show in Bucharest shot on the Dangerous tour -- and runs his entire career, from the Jackson 5's early hits for Motown to Invincible in 2001. It's the first set to cover so much ground, which is eye opening. To hear Jackson evolve from the exuberant kid singing "I Want You Back" and "ABC" to the young adult behind the vibrant disco of "Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)" and "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" is exciting and instructive; even if you're familiar with this material, it's different to hear the music change over the course of one disc. Unfortunately, The Ultimate Collection doesn't contain too many more revelations (although the early, radically different version of "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" is not only revelatory -- it's practically a different song -- it's also musically noteworthy). Since Jackson has had such a long career filled with so many hits, there are too many hits to fit into the four discs, and not all of them are nearly as invigorating or ageless as much of the music that comprises the first two CDs. These are the discs that are devoted to the Jackson 5, the Jacksons, and Michael's solo career through Thriller, and with only a few exceptions -- such as the ludicrous "Thriller" itself -- the music still sounds terrific. The set starts to downshift on the third disc, when Jackson's career started to wind into second gear, at least creatively. This covers Bad, a spotty but still effective gloss on Thriller that had several good singles, along with Dangerous, a similarly uneven record. Which leaves the fourth disc to chronicle Jackson's muddled '90s and 2000s, selecting hits and album tracks from the commercial disappointments HIStory -- the album of original songs included on that two-CD set, not the hits collection -- and Invincible. Throughout the four discs, there are a bunch of rarities scattered about, ranging from demos (including the original "We Are the World" featuring only Michael's vocals) and remixes to unreleased songs, selections from The Wiz, the Jacksons' duet with Mick Jagger on "State of Shock," "Someone in the Dark" from the hard-to-find ET's Storybook, the ridiculously stilted Captain EO theme "We Are Here to Change the World" (its production seems better suited for The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai than a Disney sci-fi flick), and "Someone Put Your Hand Out," an exclusive Pepsi-supported cassingle from the Dangerous tour. Some of this stuff is quite good -- "Sunset Driver" from 1982 and "Cheater" from 1987 are so funky, loose, and alive that it's hard not to wish that Jackson didn't fuss over his albums and just record like this all the time -- but a lot of this illustrates Michael's taste for MOR schlock (such as the children's tale "Scared of the Moon," a tie-in with his 1984 book of the same name). Since that schlock starts to surface halfway through disc two, it bogs down the set -- not enough to completely hurt it, but enough to make this pretty much the province of the hardcore fans, who will delight in the number and variety of rarities here (which is the primary attraction of the set, since the DVD is merely OK and the book is skimpy, offering only a Nelson George essay and a time line, along with many photos, most of which look fairly familiar). For the less dedicated, this is just a shade short of being definitive. It may be easy to carp about what's missing on any box set, but fans looking either for a concentrated dose of Michael at his best -- which would have been the Jackson 5 up through and including parts of Dangerous -- or a collection of all of his hits will find this somewhat unsatisfactory (for the record, the following hits are all absent on this set: "The Love You Save," "Never Can Say Goodbye," "Rockin' Robin," "Human Nature," "Say Say Say," "Another Part of Me," "Leave Me Alone," "In the Closet," "Will You Be There," "Scream," "This Time Around," "They Don't Care About Us," "Heaven Can Wait," "One More Chance"). Despite these problems, The Ultimate Collection comes close enough to getting it right to qualify as a successful box set. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide.

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