MUSICIANS.
I will tell you about not a very popular and famous musician. His songs
sound wonderful, and be has an interesting way of making his melodies. Ed
Alleyne-Johnson is a composer and violinist. Ed leant to play the violin at
school. He played in the school orchestra, but he did not really enjoy
playing classical music. It was too rigid. He did not go to the music
college. He studied painting at the school of Drawing and Fine Art in
Oxford. But he carried on playing the violin in rock bands and folk bands.
He tried to make career as a painter, but it was too difficult so he went
back to music. He started playing on the streets in England, and then he
traveled around the Europe and the States. He met a lot of different
musicians in different countries and leant some of the styles. He does not
imitate them. Not many people play electric violin on the street, so people
are usually interested. His violin is also a special one. Normal violins
have four strings. Ed is violin has got five. He painted it purple as his
first violin which he inherited from his grandfather. It became a sort of
trade mark. When he is playing it, it sound like more than one instrument.
It has a device that records music he has Just played, and repeats it again
and again. It is a sort of high-tech, one-man band. He has also made a CD.
It is called «The Purple Electric Violin Concerto». At the moment he is
recording a new CD. He is going to go back to Europe and give free concerts
on the streets and in record stores. His music was inspired by the streets,
and he would tike to take it back to the people who helped him to write
it.And here is another man who has been in the music business for about
twenty years .His name is Paul Keгак. He never had another job. He started
playing when he was just a kid, he taught himself to play. He tried few
instruments , First there drums-it was when he was only five. After that it
was there piano and then later the keyboards. He plays guitar also. He
started playing professionally when he was still at school. He left school
at sixteen. He was playing in a band, working on Sunday evening in pubs and
clubs. When he left school his only ambitions was to be in a pop group. He
was played with «Roxy Music» and »THE Smiths» . And he made records with
«Pretendness» and «Madness». It is very important to him because he made a
first hit record with them. That was in 1974 . The song was called «How
Long» and it was a big bit all over the world. Since 1985 he is with «Mike
and the Mechanics». He is the singer -vocalist and Mike plays the guitar.
He always wanted to work in America. He was pleased when his records were
successful there. And last summer he made an own record. It came out in the
October and it is called «Groove Approval» . It is doing quite well,
especially in America. His records are often played on radio there and
there are more people that have heard of him then in Britain. He is not a
superstar of course. But people know his name and buy his albums.
MUSIC.
Music - it art, reflecting validity in sound art images, one of the forms
of public ideology. Having by powerful force direct emotional effect, music
during of all history of man-kind plays a huge social,cultural and
educational role.
Lieading composers are connected to progressive public movements,
life, interests and aspirations people. Each nations differs by peculiar
national features. Folk music, being improved by creative efforts of many
generations of the people, reaches a high degree of art maturity. On the
basis of riches of national music professional musical creativity of
composers is developed. Rejection of music from advanced ideas epoch of
national culture, national roots of art leads to it's to decline and
degeneration.
Idia emotional contents of music is passed through sound art images,
implemented in musical sounds. The basic of music is the tune. according to
the way of performance music is divided into 2 main branches:instrumental
and vocal.
There are a lot of different styles of music. Such as: Jazz, Pop,
Rock, Classic; and new musical directions.Such as: Rave, Hard Core, Jungle,
Break Beat and many other. I like to listen to rave music and Happy Hard
Core.
As for me i like these styles because they are very rythmic and dancing.
The beginning of techno music was put very known singer Fredde Mercuri was
the first to compose music in the style techno. In those years very few
people evaluated new style of music. But with the years a new style has
grown up to such global sizes. Now this music is listened to by large part
of youth. I think it's very good that such musical direction as raiv has
appeared. Because in raiv there are a lot of musical directions. Young
people that are fond of music can easily choose just that style which
appeals to them.
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