If you had to write an annual appraisal on yourself how would you describe yourself?
• Are you a mental sprinter who sees things quickly and easily? Do you react to things in a flash? Are you capable of making quick decisions?
• Do you find yourself watching others and saying to yourself, I could do that so much quicker?
• Do you find yourself taking on more work because you felt it was easier and quicker for you to do it? Do you feel that you waste so much time waiting for others to complete work?
• Do you feel irritable inside? Do you get frustrated because others don’t seem to understand what you are saying and where you are going?
• Do you find you always want to hurry things up? Do you feel more comfortable when things are concluded rather than left waiting?
• Do you find yourself running out of patience with partner, children, colleagues because they seem to take more time or appear to lack concentration and go off on ‘stupid’ tangents which have little or no relevance to the project?
• Are you the alert, quick acting person who is known as the achiever?
• Are you that person who is good at developing ideas and keeping them on track?
If you own up to a couple or more of these traits and feel really irritable and impatient with yourself and those around you. If you feel that you are always clock watching. If you feel and act like a bear with a sore head more often than not. If you find yourself getting into unnecessary arguments with your partner and children as well as in work then stop for a moment. The negative part of your makeup has taken you over. You are operating from your weaknesses rather than your strengths. This is not your natural state. This is learned behavior.
You have learned to become a thorn in the belief that this behavior will protect you.
You prick people. You make people irritated and eventually ruin their performance. And people keep away from you.
But all is not lost. You can find and wake up the natural you.
How?
1. Spend time on your own and remember your natural positive side:
inside every impatient person is a patient, gentle one waiting to get out.
inside every impatient person is a person who loves working with others and getting the best out of them
inside ever impatient person is a person who loves to involve others in tasks.
2. Stop looking back. What has happened has happened it’s all part of the drama of life and cannot be changed. Don’t waste your time and energy, you can’t change the situation. Looking back is just another learned behavior it’s not natural.
3. Focus on NOW. Look at your thoughts and think about what you want to achieve. The only thing you can control is your thoughts so keep them focussed on what you want. Keep them focussed on the task ahead.
4. Mix with people who want to succeed. Keep a distance from dream stealer. Keep away from people who spend their lives telling others why things cannot happen.
When you follow this method you will change. You will be seen you for what you naturally are; a positive, popular, sought-after, powerful, human being.
Instead of a thorn that is always pricking people you will return to your natural state; a flower.
People like flowers. People like to have flowers around them. People like the wonder of flowers. People like the magic. People like the energy, the life force, the uncontrollable power. People love being around natural things. People are amazed at how flowers grow and survive in the most unlikely situations. When you are natural and using your natural strengths people approach you and want to be with you.
The skills you have of alertness, quick thinking and a quick independent mind are key skills in this world. When you are stressed you tend to go it alone. But when you are working from your natural talents you are a gifted team worker. Just give yourself time to work from your strengths rather than your weakness.
Insights on the Shortest Distance TSDB2P = The Shortest Distance Between 2Points 1. In Geometry TSDB2P is a straight line. 2. In marriage TSDB2P is love. 3. In mountain climbing TSDB2P is in the heart. 4. In sickness TSDB2P is relief. 5. In deep poverty TSDB2P is realizing you have plenty to give. 6. In a career TSDB2P is integrity. 7. In parenting TSDB2P allowing them to grow from their own mistakes. 8. In a friendship TSDB2P is trust. 9. In learning TSDB2P is a mind awaiting discovery. 10. In personal growth TSDB2P is learning your lesson the first time.
A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision.--Nido Qubein
The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many.--John Naisbitt
To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult. --Von Goeth
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.-- David Brink
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.--William Butler Yeats
Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action.--Benjamin Disraeli
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.--Arthur C. Clarke
God gives every bird it's food, but does not always drop it into the nest.
It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.--David Feherty
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.--William Penn
He is most unfortunate who's today is not better than yesterday.--Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
Don't wait for people to be kind, show them how.Man is honored for his wisdom, loved for his kindness.--S. Cohen
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.--Elmer G. Letterman
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.-- Erin Majors
When you're down to nothing, God is up to something. The faithful see the invisible, believe the incredible and then receive the impossible.
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.-- Benjamin Franklin
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.--George Washington Carver
Understand the misunderstanding of yours which was misunderstood by you, which will make you to understand your life, before life misunderstands you.--Arthur Ashe
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.--Mao Tse-Tung
His wife was on a business trip and was planning to meet him there the next day. When he reached his hotel, he decided to send his wife a quick e-mail message. Unable to find the scrap of paper on which he had written her e-mail address, he did his best to type it in from memory.
Unfortunately, he missed one letter, and his note was directed instead to an elderly preacher's wife whose husband had passed away only the day before. When the grieving widow checked her e-mail, she took one look at the monitor, let out a piercing scream, and fell to the floor dead. At the sound, her family rushed into the room and saw this note on the screen: "Dearest Wife, Just got checked in. Everything prepared for your arrival tomorrow. Your Loving Husband. P.S. Sure is hot down here."
*A new business was opening and one of the owner's friends wanted to send him flowers for the occasion. They arrived at the new business site and the owner read the card,.... "Rest in Peace." The owner was angry and called the florist to complain. After he had told the florist of the obvious mistake and how angry he was, the florist replied, "Sir, I'm really sorry for the mistake, but rather than getting angry, you should imagine this: somewhere, there is a funeral taking place today, and they have flowers with a note saying, ... 'Congratulations on your new location!'"
*A door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman manages to bully his way into an elderly woman's home in deep farm country.
"This machine is the best ever!" he exclaims, whilst pouring a bag of dirt over the lounge carpet. The woman says she's really worried it may not all come off, so the salesman says, "If this machine doesn't remove all the dirt completely, I'll lick it off myself."
"Let me get you some ketchup," she says, turning toward the kitchen.
"That's no problem, ma'am, this beauty can suck up ketchup in a blink!" the salesman says proudly.
"Oh, it's not to vacuum, it's to help you... We're not connected to electricity yet!"
*Tom is applying for a job as a signalman for the local railroad and is told to meet the inspector at the signal box. The inspector decides to give Tom a pop quiz, asking: "What would you do if you realized that two trains were heading towards each other on the same track?"
Tom says: "I would switch one train to another track."
"What if the lever broke?" asks the inspector.
"Then I'd run down to the tracks and use the manual lever down there", answers Tom.
"What if that had been struck by lightning?" challenges the inspector.
"Then," Tom continued, "I'd run back up here and use the phone to call the next signal box."
"What if the phone was busy?"
"In that case," Tom argued, "I'd run to the street level and use the public phone near the station".
"What if that had been vandalized?"
"Oh well," said Tom, "in that case I would run into town and get my Uncle Leo".
This puzzled the inspector, so he asked, "Why would you do that?"
"Because he's never seen a train crash."
*There was a man who had worked all of his life and had saved all of his money.
He was a real miser when it came to his money. He loved money more than just about anything, and just before he died, he said to his wife, " Now listen, when I die I want you to take all my money and place it in the casket with me. Because I want to take all my money to the after life."
So he got his wife to promise him with all her heart that when he died she would put all the money in the casket with him. Well one day he died.
He was stretched out in the casket, the wife was sitting there in black next to their best friend. When they finished the ceremony, just before the undertakers got ready to close the casket, the wife said "Wait A Minute!"
She had a shoebox with her, she came over with the box and placed it in the casket. Then the undertakers locked the casket and rolled it away.
Her friend said, "I hope you weren't crazy enough to put all that money in there with that stingy old man."
She said, " Yes, I promised. I can't lie. I promised him that I was going to put that money in that casket with him."
"You mean to tell me you put every cent of his money in the casket with him?"
"I sure did," said the wife. "I got it all together, put it into my account and I wrote him a check."
*A psychiatrist visited a mental institution and asked a patient "How did you get here? What was the nature of your illness?" He got the following reply.
"Well, it all started when I got married and I guess I should never have done it. I married a widow with a grown daughter who then became my stepdaughter.
My dad came to visit us, fell in love with my lovely stepdaughter, then married her. And so my stepdaughter was now my stepmother. Soon, my wife had a son who was, of course, my daddy's brother-in-law since he is the half-brother of my stepdaughter, who is now, of course, my daddy's wife.
So, as I told you, when my stepdaughter married my daddy, she was at once my stepmother! Now, since my new son is brother to my stepmother, he also became my uncle. As you know, my wife is my step-grandmother since she is my stepmother's mother. Don't forget that my stepmother is my stepdaughter. Remember, too, that I am my wife's grandson.
But hold on just a few minutes more. You see, since I'm married to my step-grandmother, I am not only the wife's grandson and her hubby, but I am also my own grandfather. Now can you understand how I got put in this place?"
After staring blankly with a dizzy look on his face, the psychiatrist replied: "Move over!"
Question Hi my question relates to a question daniel johnson previously answered where he stated "if you are writing chords and melodies to existing lyrics (your own or someone else's), let the lyrics dictate the melody and the emotion. What I mean is, allow the music to match the emotions and intensity of the lyrics." my question is how to portray that emotion. what is important in pulling an emotion? for instance lets say the singer has their lyrics written and they want to sing in the key of E, and the song is lets say an angry song. what chords would I use to portray that emotion. is it the chords that give the expression or maybe the chord progressions that give the emotion. thanks
Answer Hello Johnathon,
In other words, what musical devices can a composer use to trigger an emotional response? That's a big question but I'll have a go at answering it - bear in mind I'm a) a classical musician and b) a pianist.
Anyone studying music seriously needs to acquire a thorough understanding of its theory. If you're going to compose a song you need an understanding of how music "works". It's the difference between picking up a few phrases in a foreign language and learning the language properly; if you don't acquire a complete grasp of the grammar and syntax you'll never progress beyond baby talk.
The three inseparable and interdependent elements of music are rhythm, melody and harmony, and all three need to be taken into consideration to produce a successful composition. Even if you're writing an unaccompanied melody line, the underlying harmonic progressions must be implicit, so you're always thinking both horizontally and vertically. Emphasis on the word "progressions" - music should never be static. It's always moving somewhere, taking ideas, developing them, introducing new ideas, reverting to our original idea, drawing to a close.
The basis of the Western key system (which underpins all Western music regardless of genre apart from "new music") is that: the octave is divided into 12 equal semitones; the two diatonic scales, major and minor, are constructed in exactly the same way in all 12 keys; the various degrees of the scale and the triads built upon them are of greater or lesser importance in relation to the keynote; and we have the concept of "related" keys, which makes it easy to move from one key to another, either directly or via other, more closely that makes Western music unique. Once you have firmly established your home key, you automatically have a network of interconnections and interrelations that underpins every note you write and it's the relationships between chords rather than the chords themselves that's all-important.
So the main way to give your composition that sense of movement and symmetry is by making use of modulation. When you start to learn how to compose you'll generally be asked to produce 16 bars of music, which will give you four phrases. The first one establishes your sense of the "home" key, and also sets the mood of the piece; the second builds on the first but will end with a modulation to a related key; the third will start to bring you back home, maybe sidetracking via another modulation; and the fourth will take you back to the home key and draw the piece to a close. Nice and simple.
The more distantly related the keys you pass through or modulate to (and they're not the same thing), the further away you are from home, so ways of whipping up an emotional response include whizzing through a series of key changes, which is exhilerating, or delaying the arrival back home, which intensifies the sheer relief when you get there.
The study of harmony involves the handling and resolution of discords = the build-up and release of emotional tension, and you achieve this by the use of unessential notes (unessential to the basic harmonic structure, that is) that either anticipate or delay part of the following chord. Put simply, the longer you delay resolving an anticipatory chord, the greater the tension therefore the more emotional the response. It becomes more gut-wrenching when the unessential notes are chromatic ie they're not part of the original key, but every note, chromatic or otherwise, must be linked logically to those preceding and following it.
To get back to your question, if you're setting poetry to music then the natural stresses and flow of the language will dictate the rhythm of your melodic line, and the meaning of the words will set your mood and contribute towards the shape of your melodic phrases. The overall harmonic structure helps establish a feeling of repose or turbulence, the appropriate use of unessential notes intensifies that feeling, and the rhythmic patterns of your (piano/orchestral) accompaniment can either underline the mood or contradict it - you get effective use of this in opera, for example, where a character may be saying they are happy and confident but the accompaniment makes it clear they're not.
I've got a nasty feeling I've lost you by now. I'm not trying to blind you with science, but I am trying to get across the sheer complexity of classical music. The musical vocabulary of other genres - pop, C&W, metal - is still in the nursery by comparison. It's comparing a Shakespeare sonnet to a Mr Men book.
The appex organisation of the water sector in Maldives is Min of transport Housing & Environemtn for MEEW. What are key performance indicators of these two organisations?
The mandates are as follows"
The MEEW mandate as of 2005 is detailed below: (I) Provide access to safe water and sanitation services to the population; (II) Promote sustainable water resources management; (III) Develop strategies for provision of environmentally sound sanitation facilities to the islands; (IV) Provide technical support and input for the government and private sector in planning, implementing, provision of services, decision making and creation of economic opportunities through water and sanitation services ; (V) Take necessary actions to promote and introduce appropriate technologies relevant to the Maldivian’ context; (VI) Undertake necessary actions for the sustainable management of water resources of the country.
The MWSA mandate as of 2005 is detailed below (I) Develop and implement necessary standards, guidelines and regulations for production, consumption, import, export and selling water in the Maldives; (II) License water, sanitation and wastewater service providers and monitor the service providers under the provisions of license agreements; (III) Develop guidelines and standards on sewage and wastewater disposal and monitor the compliances of service providers; (IV) Develop and implement tariff standards and regulations for providing water and sanitation services on fee basis considering the proposals of service providers and rights of consumers; (V) Develop and implement strategies based on government policies for open-up the sector for private parties by creating competitive environment for the service providers considering easy and affordable prices for the consumers; (VI) Conduct scientific research on available water resources and sanitation options in the country; store necessary date and information and provide share the date with relevant organizations;
8 comments:
Participants:socio(lathee, sana).engineering(vij, mansr,bar)ws(aj,z,sh,fira,azee)
Visited: ps1(north end), ps2 (cemetry SW corner with zareer)
Meetintings:dev. committee,ngos,
People met: katheeb(ahmed ali),katheeb(hazssan zareer)
meeting on 30th october.
If you had to write an annual appraisal on yourself how would you describe yourself?
• Are you a mental sprinter who sees things quickly and easily? Do you react to things in a flash? Are you capable of making quick decisions?
• Do you find yourself watching others and saying to yourself, I could do that so much quicker?
• Do you find yourself taking on more work because you felt it was easier and quicker for you to do it? Do you feel that you waste so much time waiting for others to complete work?
• Do you feel irritable inside? Do you get frustrated because others don’t seem to understand what you are saying and where you are going?
• Do you find you always want to hurry things up? Do you feel more comfortable when things are concluded rather than left waiting?
• Do you find yourself running out of patience with partner, children, colleagues because they seem to take more time or appear to lack concentration and go off on ‘stupid’ tangents which have little or no relevance to the project?
• Are you the alert, quick acting person who is known as the achiever?
• Are you that person who is good at developing ideas and keeping them on track?
If you own up to a couple or more of these traits and feel really irritable and impatient with yourself and those around you. If you feel that you are always clock watching. If you feel and act like a bear with a sore head more often than not. If you find yourself getting into unnecessary arguments with your partner and children as well as in work then stop for a moment. The negative part of your makeup has taken you over. You are operating from your weaknesses rather than your strengths. This is not your natural state. This is learned behavior.
You have learned to become a thorn in the belief that this behavior will protect you.
You prick people. You make people irritated and eventually ruin their performance.
And people keep away from you.
But all is not lost. You can find and wake up the natural you.
How?
1. Spend time on your own and remember your natural positive side:
inside every impatient person is a patient, gentle one waiting to get out.
inside every impatient person is a person who loves working with others and getting the best out of them
inside ever impatient person is a person who loves to involve others in tasks.
2. Stop looking back. What has happened has happened it’s all part of the drama of life and cannot be changed. Don’t waste your time and energy, you can’t change the situation. Looking back is just another learned behavior it’s not natural.
3. Focus on NOW. Look at your thoughts and think about what you want to achieve. The only thing you can control is your thoughts so keep them focussed on what you want. Keep them focussed on the task ahead.
4. Mix with people who want to succeed. Keep a distance from dream stealer. Keep away from people who spend their lives telling others why things cannot happen.
When you follow this method you will change. You will be seen you for what you naturally are; a positive, popular, sought-after, powerful, human being.
Instead of a thorn that is always pricking people you will return to your natural state; a flower.
People like flowers. People like to have flowers around them. People like the wonder of flowers. People like the magic. People like the energy, the life force, the uncontrollable power. People love being around natural things. People are amazed at how flowers grow and survive in the most unlikely situations. When you are natural and using your natural strengths people approach you and want to be with you.
The skills you have of alertness, quick thinking and a quick independent mind are key skills in this world. When you are stressed you tend to go it alone. But when you are working from your natural talents you are a gifted team worker. Just give yourself time to work from your strengths rather than your weakness.
Good Luck
Insights on the Shortest Distance
TSDB2P = The Shortest Distance Between 2Points
1. In Geometry TSDB2P is a straight line.
2. In marriage TSDB2P is love.
3. In mountain climbing TSDB2P is in the heart.
4. In sickness TSDB2P is relief.
5. In deep poverty TSDB2P is realizing you have plenty to give.
6. In a career TSDB2P is integrity.
7. In parenting TSDB2P allowing them to grow from their own mistakes.
8. In a friendship TSDB2P is trust.
9. In learning TSDB2P is a mind awaiting discovery.
10. In personal growth TSDB2P is learning your lesson the first time.
A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision.--Nido Qubein
The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many.--John Naisbitt
To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult. --Von Goeth
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.-- David Brink
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.--William Butler Yeats
Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action.--Benjamin Disraeli
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.--Arthur C. Clarke
God gives every bird it's food, but does not always drop it into the nest.
It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.--David Feherty
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.--William Penn
He is most unfortunate who's today is not better than yesterday.--Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
Don't wait for people to be kind, show them how.Man is honored for his wisdom, loved for his kindness.--S. Cohen
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.--Elmer G. Letterman
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.-- Erin Majors
When you're down to nothing, God is up to something. The faithful see the invisible, believe the incredible and then receive the impossible.
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.-- Benjamin Franklin
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.--George Washington Carver
Understand the misunderstanding of yours which was misunderstood by you, which will make you to understand your life, before life misunderstands you.--Arthur Ashe
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.--Mao Tse-Tung
*A man left for a vacation to Jamaica.
His wife was on a business trip and was planning to meet him there the next day. When he reached his hotel, he decided to send his wife a quick e-mail message. Unable to find the scrap of paper on which he had written her e-mail address, he did his best to type it in from memory.
Unfortunately, he missed one letter, and his note was directed instead to an elderly preacher's wife whose husband had passed away only the day before. When the grieving widow checked her e-mail, she took one look at the monitor, let out a piercing scream, and fell to the floor dead. At the sound, her family rushed into the room and saw this note on the screen: "Dearest Wife, Just got checked in. Everything prepared for your arrival tomorrow. Your Loving Husband. P.S. Sure is hot down here."
*A new business was opening and one of the owner's friends wanted to send him flowers for the occasion. They arrived at the new business site and the owner read the card,.... "Rest in Peace." The owner was angry and called the florist to complain. After he had told the florist of the obvious mistake and how angry he was, the florist replied, "Sir, I'm really sorry for the mistake, but rather than getting angry, you should imagine this: somewhere, there is a funeral taking place today, and they have flowers with a note saying, ... 'Congratulations on your new location!'"
*A door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman manages to bully his way into an elderly woman's home in deep farm country.
"This machine is the best ever!" he exclaims, whilst pouring a bag of dirt over the lounge carpet. The woman says she's really worried it may not all come off, so the salesman says, "If this machine doesn't remove all the dirt completely, I'll lick it off myself."
"Let me get you some ketchup," she says, turning toward the kitchen.
"That's no problem, ma'am, this beauty can suck up ketchup in a blink!" the salesman says proudly.
"Oh, it's not to vacuum, it's to help you... We're not connected to electricity yet!"
*Tom is applying for a job as a signalman for the local railroad and is told to meet the inspector at the signal box. The inspector decides to give Tom a pop quiz, asking: "What would you do if you realized that two trains were heading towards each other on the same track?"
Tom says: "I would switch one train to another track."
"What if the lever broke?" asks the inspector.
"Then I'd run down to the tracks and use the manual lever down there", answers Tom.
"What if that had been struck by lightning?" challenges the inspector.
"Then," Tom continued, "I'd run back up here and use the phone to call the next signal box."
"What if the phone was busy?"
"In that case," Tom argued, "I'd run to the street level and use the public phone near the station".
"What if that had been vandalized?"
"Oh well," said Tom, "in that case I would run into town and get my Uncle Leo".
This puzzled the inspector, so he asked, "Why would you do that?"
"Because he's never seen a train crash."
*There was a man who had worked all of his life and had saved all of his money.
He was a real miser when it came to his money. He loved money more than just about anything, and just before he died, he said to his wife, " Now listen, when I die I want you to take all my money and place it in the casket with me. Because I want to take all my money to the after life."
So he got his wife to promise him with all her heart that when he died she would put all the money in the casket with him. Well one day he died.
He was stretched out in the casket, the wife was sitting there in black next to their best friend. When they finished the ceremony, just before the undertakers got ready to close the casket, the wife said "Wait A Minute!"
She had a shoebox with her, she came over with the box and placed it in the casket. Then the undertakers locked the casket and rolled it away.
Her friend said, "I hope you weren't crazy enough to put all that money in there with that stingy old man."
She said, " Yes, I promised. I can't lie. I promised him that I was going to put that money in that casket with him."
"You mean to tell me you put every cent of his money in the casket with him?"
"I sure did," said the wife. "I got it all together, put it into my account and I wrote him a check."
*A psychiatrist visited a mental institution and asked a patient "How did you get here? What was the nature of your illness?" He got the following reply.
"Well, it all started when I got married and I guess I should never have done it. I married a widow with a grown daughter who then became my stepdaughter.
My dad came to visit us, fell in love with my lovely stepdaughter, then married her. And so my stepdaughter was now my stepmother. Soon, my wife had a son who was, of course, my daddy's brother-in-law since he is the half-brother of my stepdaughter, who is now, of course, my daddy's wife.
So, as I told you, when my stepdaughter married my daddy, she was at once my stepmother! Now, since my new son is brother to my stepmother, he also became my uncle. As you know, my wife is my step-grandmother since she is my stepmother's mother. Don't forget that my stepmother is my stepdaughter. Remember, too, that I am my wife's grandson.
But hold on just a few minutes more. You see, since I'm married to my step-grandmother, I am not only the wife's grandson and her hubby, but I am also my own grandfather. Now can you understand how I got put in this place?"
After staring blankly with a dizzy look on his face, the psychiatrist replied: "Move over!"
Question
Hi my question relates to a question daniel johnson previously
answered where he stated "if you are writing chords and melodies
to existing lyrics (your own or someone else's), let the lyrics dictate
the melody and the emotion. What I mean is, allow the music to
match the emotions and intensity of the lyrics." my question is how
to portray that emotion. what is important in pulling an emotion?
for instance lets say the singer has their lyrics written and they
want to sing in the key of E, and the song is lets say an angry song.
what chords would I use to portray that emotion. is it the chords
that give the expression or maybe the chord progressions that give
the emotion. thanks
Answer
Hello Johnathon,
In other words, what musical devices can a composer use to trigger an emotional response? That's a big question but I'll have a go at answering it - bear in mind I'm a) a classical musician and b) a pianist.
Anyone studying music seriously needs to acquire a thorough understanding of its theory. If you're going to compose a song you need an understanding of how music "works". It's the difference between picking up a few phrases in a foreign language and learning the language properly; if you don't acquire a complete grasp of the grammar and syntax you'll never progress beyond baby talk.
The three inseparable and interdependent elements of music are rhythm, melody and harmony, and all three need to be taken into consideration to produce a successful composition. Even if you're writing an unaccompanied melody line, the underlying harmonic progressions must be implicit, so you're always thinking both horizontally and vertically. Emphasis on the word "progressions" - music should never be static. It's always moving somewhere, taking ideas, developing them, introducing new ideas, reverting to our original idea, drawing to a close.
The basis of the Western key system (which underpins all Western music regardless of genre apart from "new music") is that: the octave is divided into 12 equal semitones; the two diatonic scales, major and minor, are constructed in exactly the same way in all 12 keys; the various degrees of the scale and the triads built upon them are of greater or lesser importance in relation to the keynote; and we have the concept of "related" keys, which makes it easy to move from one key to another, either directly or via other, more closely that makes Western music unique. Once you have firmly established your home key, you automatically have a network of interconnections and interrelations that underpins every note you write and it's the relationships between chords rather than the chords themselves that's all-important.
So the main way to give your composition that sense of movement and symmetry is by making use of modulation. When you start to learn how to compose you'll generally be asked to produce 16 bars of music, which will give you four phrases. The first one establishes your sense of the "home" key, and also sets the mood of the piece; the second builds on the first but will end with a modulation to a related key; the third will start to bring you back home, maybe sidetracking via another modulation; and the fourth will take you back to the home key and draw the piece to a close. Nice and simple.
The more distantly related the keys you pass through or modulate to (and they're not the same thing), the further away you are from home, so ways of whipping up an emotional response include whizzing through a series of key changes, which is exhilerating, or delaying the arrival back home, which intensifies the sheer relief when you get there.
The study of harmony involves the handling and resolution of discords = the build-up and release of emotional tension, and you achieve this by the use of unessential notes (unessential to the basic harmonic structure, that is) that either anticipate or delay part of the following chord. Put simply, the longer you delay resolving an anticipatory chord, the greater the tension therefore the more emotional the response. It becomes more gut-wrenching when the unessential notes are chromatic ie they're not part of the original key, but every note, chromatic or otherwise, must be linked logically to those preceding and following it.
To get back to your question, if you're setting poetry to music then the natural stresses and flow of the language will dictate the rhythm of your melodic line, and the meaning of the words will set your mood and contribute towards the shape of your melodic phrases. The overall harmonic structure helps establish a feeling of repose or turbulence, the appropriate use of unessential notes intensifies that feeling, and the rhythmic patterns of your (piano/orchestral) accompaniment can either underline the mood or contradict it - you get effective use of this in opera, for example, where a character may be saying they are happy and confident but the accompaniment makes it clear they're not.
I've got a nasty feeling I've lost you by now. I'm not trying to blind you with science, but I am trying to get across the sheer complexity of classical music. The musical vocabulary of other genres - pop, C&W, metal - is still in the nursery by comparison. It's comparing a Shakespeare sonnet to a Mr Men book.
Hope this has helped a bit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK-X9q4hFAo
http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Sewage1.htm
The appex organisation of the water sector in Maldives is Min of transport Housing & Environemtn for MEEW. What are key performance indicators of these two organisations?
The mandates are as follows"
The MEEW mandate as of 2005 is detailed below:
(I) Provide access to safe water and sanitation services to the population;
(II) Promote sustainable water resources management;
(III) Develop strategies for provision of environmentally sound sanitation facilities to the islands;
(IV) Provide technical support and input for the government and private sector in planning, implementing, provision of services, decision making and creation of economic opportunities through water and sanitation services ;
(V) Take necessary actions to promote and introduce appropriate technologies relevant to the Maldivian’ context;
(VI) Undertake necessary actions for the sustainable management of water resources of the country.
The MWSA mandate as of 2005 is detailed below
(I) Develop and implement necessary standards, guidelines and regulations for production, consumption, import, export and selling water in the Maldives;
(II) License water, sanitation and wastewater service providers and monitor the service providers under the provisions of license agreements;
(III) Develop guidelines and standards on sewage and wastewater disposal and monitor the compliances of service providers;
(IV) Develop and implement tariff standards and regulations for providing water and sanitation services on fee basis considering the proposals of service providers and rights of consumers;
(V) Develop and implement strategies based on government policies for open-up the sector for private parties by creating competitive environment for the service providers considering easy and affordable prices for the consumers;
(VI) Conduct scientific research on available water resources and sanitation options in the country; store necessary date and information and provide share the date with relevant organizations;
Post a Comment