New Album of Bob Dylan Release on April

Bob Dylan New Album Release
Inspired by the uncluttered early rock and R&B recordings of Chess and Sun Records, Together Through Life is Bob Dylan's remarkable 33rd studio album. Pre-order for this album can serve by their agent and get a bonus track when the album is released on April 28 and the single "Beyond Here Lies Nothin'" will begin to download immediately.

ACM Awards
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The Academy of Country Music Awards take place on Sunday. Watch as Kenny Chesney, Brad Paisley, George Strait, Carrie Underwood, and Keith Urban compete for the coveted Entertainer of the Year Award. See who else made the nominee list for this year's ACM Awards.

Metric
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Fantasies is the fourth album from Metric and it finds Emily Haines and James Shaw writing some of their most direct and guitar-driven songs to date. Still as bright as ever, but with a bit more bite, Fantasies is a great return and now available exclusively.

Single of the Week
Right-click here to download pictures. To help protect your privacy, Outlook prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet. Indie singer/songwriter Angel Taylor is about to finish a tour with Gavin Degraw and begin a new one with Kate Voegele. Does she have what it takes to become the next big thing? Get "Make Me Believe," our free SIngle of the Week, and decide for yourself. If you like it, her debut album, Love Travels, is available exclusively.

Latin American Music and Dance

The term Latin American as used here encompasses the Americas south of the United States, as well as Caribian.

During the colonial period in Latin America (16^th-19^th centuries) many Amerindian populations were decimated, and much traditional Amerindian musical culture was destroyed or syncretized with Iberian.

Little concrete evidence remains as to the real nature of pre-conquest music in Aztec, Inca, and Maya civilizations part from the testimony of 16^th century Spanish chroniclers and what can be seen of instrument depicted in hieroglyphs and pottery decorations.

Drums, rattles, scrapers, slit drums (hollowed logs), whistles, vertical flutes, and panpipes were found, with almost total absence of stringed instrument. In performing Yeravi song, the huayno song and dance form, and other genres, modern Andean Amerindian still make extensive use of vertical flutes and panpipes, along with European instrument such as bass drums, harps, and guitars of different size.

In Mesoamerica, Indians now plays harps, fiddles, and guitars bass upon archaic Spanish models, or Marimba of African origin. Only in certain tropical areas (as the Amazon basin) are virtually unacculturated song Ameridian musics found.

The Iberian origins of many song and dance form are evident in a widespread predilection for alternating ¾ and 6/8 meters (hemiola), the use of harps, fiddles, guitars, and many song types derived from Spanish verse structures such as the romanze or villancico. These include the corridor of Mexico, desafio of Brazil, copla of Andean country, and decimal of South America, the Caribbean, and Mexico.

To be continued

Say With Flower

For young fellow sometime difficult express their feeling when loves a woman. Except he was a love adventure that have many experience to express his cheap love. This also happen to this young fellow while he love somebody, he afraid that his love will be refused.

A young fellow which is being be blanketed by the feeling love, step into a flower shop. In the shop shown a very big writing which gives a very bright idea.

“SAY WITH FLOWER," that way the writing sticks on the wall.

“Please wrap one stalk Rose," young fellow said to the shop custodian

“Only one stalk?" ask the shop custodian

“Yap, only one," said the young fellow, then he continue...

“Because I am a close-mouthed man!"

Rock Music History

Rock music emerged during the mid 1950s to become the major popular musical form of young audiences in the United States and Western Europe. It stylistic scope is too broad to be encompassed by any single definition; the only feature common to all rock music is a heavy on the beat.

Rock 'n Roll 1950-62

The primary source of rock 'n roll was Rhythm and Blues, an idiom popular among black audiences that combined elements of urban Blues (in the structure, vocal style, and use of simplified guitar), gospel music (in the piano accompaniments and vocal harmonizing), and Jazz (in saxophone solos), Rhythm and blues began to gain a wider audience during the late 1940s, and in 1951 the disc jockey who played an important role in attracting white teenagers to the music, substituted the term "rock 'n roll," previously use a sexual reference in lyrics. Bill Halley's Rock Around the Clock" (1955) was the first important break through the white rock 'n roll. What appealed to the postwar white audience was rock 'n roll's driving dance rhythms. Its direct, adolescent-level message, and its suggestion of youthful rebellion.

Rock 'n roll's first superstar was Elvis Presley. With his country and western background, Presley led the way for other "rockabilly" (rock plus hillbilly) artists; with his spasmodic hip gyrations, he introduced a sexual suggestiveness that outraged conservative adults; with this legion of teenage fans, he became the archetype of the rock star as culture hero.

Other popular figures also made significant contributions to the style; Chuck Berry nourished the music's roots, Jerry Lee Lewis expanded its country branch, and Little Richard provided frantic showmanship. By the late 1950s, however, a malaise had set in; the music had become formula-ridden, sentimental, and often as in love-death ballads like "Teen Angel" distinctly maudlin.

Mandolin

The singing beggar in Indonesia often use this instrument to sing in public bus, in the train and now become going door to door. This situation may don't meet in your country. Some of them also have a good skill to play this music instrument. Now the singing beggar also play other instrument like Violin, they play this biola also very good.

The mandolin itself is the Neapolitan, a small lute about 60 cm (2 ft) long with deeply vaulted ribs and a table slanted downward at the lower end. It has four double rib-fastened metal strings suspended across a low bridge and a fretted neck to pegs inserted into a rectangular peg-box. A small flexible plectrum is used to vibrate the strings. A feature of mandolin playing is the constant reiteration of all long pitches, which counteracts its week sustaining power.

The mandolin emerged from medieval-Renaisance mandola possibly as early as the 15th century and enjoyed a vogue in concert music during the 18th century; Handel, Mozart, Vivaldi and Auber all composed for it. By 1900 it had become a popular folk instrument in Germany and America.

The mandolin has been used for vocal accompaniment as well as for classical composition since the 18th century. Development in Italy from the mandola, the modern mandolin ha sfour pairs of strings tuned to violin pitch and produced a clear, bright tone.

Guitar

The guitar is chordophone (stringed musical instrument) with a neck. Classified as a "short lute", the guitar is distinguished from other members of this family (the lute proper, mandolin, etc.) by its that back, incurving sides, and flat peg disc with rear tuning pegs. The modern guitar has six strings, the upper three are made of gut or nylon, the lower three are made of silk over spun with metal - or all may be of metal. The string are stretched over a fingerboard on the neck is attached the peg disc, or "tuning head", which is fitted with mechanical tuning pins. The body is composed of a spruce sound board and parallel hardwood back separated by curved hardwood ribs. A circular sound hole pierces the sound board between the end of the fingerboard and the bridge to which the string are fastened. Guitars are traditionally played with a plectrum. The standard-sized modern guitar is approximately 90 cm (3 ft) in overall length and is actually the bass member of a complete choir of variously sized instrument that are still use in Spain.

During the early 19th century in Spain the guitar underwent a transformation that include the adoption of six single strings. Antonio de Tores Jurado (1817 - 92) is credited with consolidating this and other modifications to create the swiftly voice, modern classical guitar, as well as with establishing the modern form of the flamenco guitar with its smaller, lighter body and more brilliant sound.

In the United States in the early 20th century, the steel-strung guitar with its greater volume and "twangier" sound come to be preferred as the favorite popular instrument. The "flat-top" guitar developed by Orville Gibson, with its violin type arched soundboard, was particularly popular in bands and orchestras of the 1920s and 1930s.

As the developed in the 1930s and 40s, the electric guitar was a steel-strung acoustic guitar with an electromagnetic pick-up connected to an electronic amplification system. The solid body electric guitar with its limitless volume and great sustaining power, became increasingly popular in the 1950s and 60s with the advent of rock music.

Musical Instruments

Although vocal performance is common to practically all musical traditions, instrumental performance has a more varied history. Stringed and wind instruments are important functions in the ceremonies and entertainments of the Greek and Roman civilizations. Instruments as harp, lyre, psaltery, and various winds and drums – most of which were derived from oriental models – were, however, employed in small (monophonic) dance pieces. Because only a few instruments from the Middle Ages still exist, much of the present knowledge comes from pictorial and literary sources and from folk music that preserves these traditions.

The comparatively rapid evolution of western musical genres and instruments (in marked contrast to the stability of many other musical cultures) was frequently accompanied by a disdain for those of previous generations. Older instruments were often altered, “improved”, or simply discarded, sometimes surviving intact only in private collections. Renewed interest in the performance of early music, and the revival of such instruments as the harpsichord since World War II, however, have resulted in a growing appreciation for performances on restored instruments or authentic reconstructions of early instruments. Many soloists and ensembles now specialize in early music played on these instruments.

Classification
Musical instruments are popularly divided into the stringed, woodwind, brass, percussion, and keyboard families of the symphony orchestra and concert solo repertoire, but distinction are not adequate for serious study. The piano, for example, is at once a string, percussion, and keyboard instrument. Medieval trumpets and other brasslike instruments were made of wood, whereas such “woodwinds” as the modern flute and saxophone are constructed from metal. Those who study the origins, construction and performance of instruments –including non-western, folk, popular and ancient, as well as those of concert and liturgical music- require a more precise and inclusive method of classification.

Stringed Instruments
The many varieties of stringed instruments are distinguished by the positioning of the strings and resonating box (usually a hollow wooden case), and the manner of playing. String can be bowed, plucked with the fingers, plucked with a plectrum or some other device or hammered, such as Guitar, Mandolin, Harph and many others.


Wind Instruments

The sound of wind instruments result from the vibration of air inside a length of tubing or other enclosed cavity. This vibration can be initiated in several ways, when the player blows through a narrow hole in the instrument, as in flutes, through the movement of reeds as in the other orchestral woodwinds and the pipe organ, by the buzzing movement of the player’s lips as in the brass instruments, or less frequently through direct stimulus from the surrounding air (the so-called “free-aerophones,” mostly ancient and folk instruments).

Percussion Instruments
Usually played by striking or shaking, from the oldest and most universal of instrumental groups. Drum and other membranous-phones were introduced to ancient Greece and Medieval Europe from the orient but generally limited to ceremonial and military function and song accompaniment. The kettle drum (timpani) which originated in the middle east, were introduce into Europe before 1400 and first used orchestral during the 17th century.

Keyboard Instruments
Actually keyboard instruments do not constitute a separate category, since the keyboard itself produces no vibration but, rather, is linked to some external sound source. Keyboard mechanisms have devised for strings (the piano and harpsichord), wind (the pipe organ), idiophone percussion (the celesta) and electrophones (the synthesizer and electronic organ). Despite their differences in action (linkage to the sound source) and resulting differences in playing techniques, these instruments share many common features, so that, it is often useful to consider them together.

Electronic and Computer-Based Instruments
The vibrating source of an electronic instrument is a loudspeaker, driven by an alternating current that is proportional in shape and amplitude to the resulting sound wave. The sound source maybe purely electronic as in the synthesizer and electronic organ, or it may be a live or recorded acoustical sound as in the electric guitar and various of sampling device.