วันอาทิตย์ที่ 14 มีนาคม พ.ศ. 2553

Respond to topic

http://www.bangkokpost.com/travel/travelscoop/33871/one-day-gateway-to-rattanakosin

This is the link to my topic that talk about traveling in Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand, we have very long culture since Rama period untill Rattanakosin period(present time). Many place open for tourist to visit and learning about Thai's civilization . There is one think come up in my mind that there are many foreigners come to Thailand to see and admire in Thai culture but why Thai people in this generation has no pride in our beutiful place language and culture. Conversely, we try to look out and imitate foreign culture and ignore to inherit our culture.
Its the time to think that how much the culture is important for us. Culture is make each country has more indentity. So that preserve culture to preserve our country. Start it today before we will have no chance to preserve it.

วันอาทิตย์ที่ 21 กุมภาพันธ์ พ.ศ. 2553

Genres of music by composer of different eras

Genres of music by composer of different eras

The music in different period has different style that depends on
composer’s idea and philosophy of each period. The idea and philosophy have created by each composer that cause of stylistic of the music. A group of composer in that time made the music in same idea, concept and style is cause of identity of music style for each period. There are significant composers for each period that create the stylistic of music include of six periods; renaissance, baroque, classic, romantic, and contemporary period.
The Renaissance Period was a vibrant time when knowledge and fine arts flourished. Generally classified between 1400 and1600 (1). Almost favorite composers were Italian composers include Thomas Tallis (1510-1585), Josquin Des Prez (1440-1521), Pierre de La Rue (1460-1518),Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), William Byrd (1543-1623), Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1526-1594), Orlando de Lassus (1530-1594) and Giovanni Gabrieli (1553-1612).All of important composers represent renaissance style. For the genre of music was sacred music ;( mass, motet, madrigal spiritual), secular vocal music (madrigal, frottola, caccia, chanson).
Purely instrumental music included consort music for recorder or viol and other instruments, and dances for various ensembles. Common genres were the toccata, the prelude, the ricercar, the canzona, and intabulation (intavolatura, intabulierung). Instrumental ensembles for dances might play a basse danse (or bassedanza), a pavane, a galliard, an allemande, or a courante (2).
The Baroque period was a period after renaissance (1600-1750).
It is associated with composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, Jean-Baptiste Lully, George Frideric Handel, Arcangelo Corelli, Claudio Monteverdi, Jean-Philippe Rameau and Henry Purcell. Sacred music has changed to be more secular (from sacred music). There are development of “tonality” basso continuo and ornamentation style in baroque music such as vocal music (opera, oratorio, passion, cantata, mass, anthem, monody and choral) and also in the instrumental work such as concerto grosso, fugue, suite, sonata, partitar, canzona, sinfonia, fantasia, recercar, toccata, prelude, chanonne,passacaglia, chorale prelude and stylus fantaticus. The concerto and sonata is kind of works that emerged in this period.
Next is Classical period which occurred between baroque period and romantic period. This period have developed stylistic “structure form” of music. Sonata form was a standard form for this period. Beside that the harmony was more complex than the previous. The style was cleaner style that favored clearer divisions between parts, brighter contrasts and colors, and simplicity rather than complexity (3). Variety of keys, melodies, rhythms and dynamics (using crescendo, diminuendo and sforzando), along with frequent changes of mood and timbre were more commonplace in the Classical period than they had been in the Baroque. Melodies tended to be shorter than those of Baroque music, with clear-cut phrases and clearly marked cadences. The new work for orchestra was bigger and more standard than baroque music such as the symphony that increases a size of orchestra. Also concerto and sonata have developed by the composer such as Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.
After Classical period was Romantic period. This period begin in nineteenth century which the structure form and the concept were being made beneath emotional colorful, bigger sound and dramatic music such Symphony, Tone poem, program music etc. The famous composers were Brahms, Wagner, Strauss, Mahler. This period is the highest development of classical music especially the Symphony have developed to the peak.
The last period is contemporary music or twenty first century. This period music has changing the concept from classical music. There is a lot of experiment music such as electricism, serialism, twelve tone music etc. The concept of this period is try to find a new concept of sound its self more than thinking about harmony, melody or emotion. The famous composers include Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luigi Nono. The first two were both pupils of Olivier Messiaen.
In America composers like Milton Babbitt, Roger Sessions, George Rochberg. John Cage, Henry Cowell, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, and Elliot Carter.
In conclusion, music has been developing since the past until now. There are bridge times between each period that show the evolution of music through idea of composer. The variety of music always make new concept for audiences and music will explain it self. But only listener who will be able to know what the music want to tell us.







1(http://classicalmusic.about.com/od/renaissanceperiod/tp/renaissancecomp.htm)
2Atlas, Allan W. Renaissance Music. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998.
3 http://www.classical.net

วันอังคารที่ 25 สิงหาคม พ.ศ. 2552

It might be you

Time, I've been passing time watching trains go by. All of my life, lying on the sand watching sea bird fly. Wishing there would be someone waiting home for me. Somethings telling me it might be you, yeh it's telling me it might be you, all of my life. Looking back as lovers go walking past. All of my life wondering how they met and what makes it last. If I found the place would I recognize the face. Somethings telling me it might be you, It's telling me it might be you.
So many quiet walks to take. So many dreams to wake and there's so much love to make.
I think we gonna need sometime, Maybe all we need is tim, and it's telling me it might be you
"All Of My Life"