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Shostakovich: Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 2; Seven Romances

The C Minor Piano Trio was composed in 1923 when Shostakovich was 17 years old and the most brilliant student at the Petrograd Conservatory. Shostakovich tried to avoid the sound of 19th-century piano trios and to create original music for a post-Revolutionary society.

The E Minor Piano Trio begun in 1943 immediately after Shostakovich had completed his 7th and 8th symphonies. The finale is grim and disturbing, using Jewish idioms as symbols of oppression and victimhood. The ending is still, like a mass grave.

In the final work, Seven Romances on Verses by Alexander Blok, the first three songs are accompanied by solo instruments, the next three by duets, and the last song by all three instruments playing together. In this recording the soloist is Joan Rodgers, one of Britain’s best-loved singers.

The Beaux Arts Trio celebrated a highly successful 50th Anniversary Season in 2004-2005. Pianist and founding member Menahem Pressler and his colleagues, violinist Daniel Hope and cellist Antonio Meneses, continue to ignite overwhelming enthusiasm from audiences around the world.

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Gypsies from throughout Europe travel each May 24-25 to the town of Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer in the Camargue region of France on a religious pilgrimage to honor their Saint Sarah in prayer and music. Here, at the end of the road in France, this gathering has become a crossroads of Romany music, inspiring and pollinating other types of Gypsy music from flamenco to Django Reinhardt’s Gypsy Jazz, traditional Hungarian and Balkan brass to the Gipsy Kings’ Rhumba. in 1943-44, Django even tried to compose an organ mass to be played for the ceremony. He never finished it, but today, his melodies such as “Nuages” have become hymns for the Romany evangelical church, complete with prayer lyrics. My children (ages 7 and 13) filmed the events during our family vacation—except for the knifefight, which I filmed by chance (my children were in bed, happily). I was shooting the church at night when the fight broke out; you won’t actually see the blades, but the footage was shot amidst the panic as the crowd ran in fear. The fight was a crime of passion: a spurred Romany lover decided to slice his beloved. He tried to get her earlier in the day, then returned at night, leaving her with blood running down her arm and her clan vowing revenge. Next year, Disneyland instead. Ha! There’s live shots here of music and dancing in the streets, including the jazz manouche band Raspoutine and the Tziganes group Urs Karpatz, complete with cymbalom. Added music comes from 1910s Romany violinist …
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Eureka’s citizens face the return of people from the past; Global Dynamics tests a new device.

For years, the government has been secretly relocating the world’s geniuses (and their families) to the idyllic Pacific Northwest town of Eureka, where daily life straddles the line between unprecedented innovation and total chaos. When U.S. Marshal Jack Carter (Ferguson) wrecks his car and becomes stranded in Eureka, he quickly realizes that all is not what it seems. After the town’s eccentric inhabitants unleash a brainchild with a catastrophic aftermath, Carter steps in to restore order and consequently is let in on one of our country’s best-kept secrets.

Eureka (the logo of which appears as EUReKA) is an American science fiction television series that premiered on Syfy on July 18, 2006, and since then three full seasons have aired, and a fourth is currently being shown. The show is set in a fictional town called Eureka, Oregon in the Pacific Northwest inhabited almost entirely by geniuses and scientists. Nearly everyone in Eureka works for Global Dynamics, a huge advanced research facility responsible for the development of all major technological breakthroughs in the last 50 years. Each episode features a mysterious accidental or intentional misuse of technology which is then solved by the town Sheriff, Jack Carter with the help of town scientists. There is also a story arc concerning a mysterious artifact that has had an appearance in both the first and second seasons.

It was created by Andrew Cosby and Jamie Paglia and is produced by Universal Media Studios. The season one original music was composed by Mutato Muzika and season two and three were composed by Bear McCreary. The executive producers of the current season are Paglia, Charles Grant Craig, and Thania St. John. While initially lacking in strong critical acclaim, Eureka has been a popular success, averaging 3.2 million viewers during the second half of season three.[1] In 2007 Eureka was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Visual Effects for a Series and won the Leo Award for Best Visual Effects in a Dramatic Series. In the United Kingdom, on the Sky TV channel, the show is known as A Town Called Eureka although it is also shown under its original name on the BT Vision platform. It was announced on August 17, 2010 that the show had been picked up for fifth season of an unknown amount of episodes.

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LA Femme Film Festival’s Founder Leslie LaPage announced today that the 6th Annual LA Femme Film Festival 2010, October 14-17, 2010 will be honoring Angela Bassett (What’s Love Got to do with it, Green Lantern release date 2011), Virginia Madsen (Sideways, Scoundrels), Angela Kinsey (The Office),Loretta Devine (Waiting to Exhale, Grey’s Anatomy) and Maggie Wheeler (Friends, Everybody Loves Raymond) at the festival’s Awards Ceremony on October 17, 2010.

Carmen Carter (Dancing with the Stars) will be performing throughout the evening and comedian Gloria Bigelow will be the ceremony’s MC. Guests may include: Steve Carell (The Office), Rainn Wilson (The Office),John Krasinski (The Office),Jenna Fischer(The Office),B.J. Novak(The Office), Mindy Kaling (The Office), Craig Robinson (The Office), Ellie Kemper, Tasha Smith (Tyler Perry Films), Vanessa Bell Callaway, Peter Sarsgaard, Tim Robbins, Forest Whitaker, Rick Fox, Tyler Perry, Sofia Vegara, Lance Gross, Keke Palmer, Laurence Fishburne, Amanda Seyfried, Sandra Oh, Paul Giamatti, Jim Carrey, David Schwimmer, Diablo Cody (United States of Tara), Sara Gilbert (Hawthorne), Daphne Zuniga (One Tree Hill), Marisol Nichols (The Gates), Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Marla Gibbs, Tippi Hedren, Vivica A. Fox, Lorraine Toussaint, Rosanna Arquette, Lea Thompson, Jacqueline Bisset, Sally Kirkland.

LA Femme in conjunction with SAG’s (Screen Actors Guild) Diversity Committee and Magnolia Pictures will be hosting a Special Screening of “Night Catches Us” starting Anthony Mackie and Kerry Washington. The film focuses on a love story that flourishes within the violence and political struggle of the Black Power movement of the 1970’s. The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with Director/Writer Tanya Hamilton, Jamie Hector, Nikita Dillard, Vic Bulluck Executive Director of the Hollywood Bureau of the NAACP, along with surprise, guest actors from the film! An additional Special Screening of “The Seedling”, a story of human survival, will be a fundraising event for the national non-profit foundation, RAINN.

LA Femme is excited to announce that this year’s festival will include the first annual Women in Music event and fundraiser with Grammy Nominated Performer Lisa Haley and the Zydekats performing a unique blend of Cajun, American style music creations. Opening for Lisa Haley is the Haberdashery Ensemble performing a mix of jazz, gypsy and folk on October 14th which will launch this year events at LA Femme. Ticket to include 2 hour show with a full after party with DJ, Hosted Bar, Food and Goodies Bags! Tickets are: , and dollars which can be purchased online.

LA Femme’s full program of films screening is available on line. Some selected films screening at the festival include: “Truth About Kerry”, Stana Katic (Castle); “ I Know a Woman Like That” Rita Moreno (Westside Story), Virginia Madsen (Sideways), Eartha Kitt (Batman), Lauren Hutton (American Gigolo); “Mountains that Take Wing” Angela Davis (Political Activist) & Yuri Kochiyama (Japanese American Human Rights Activist); “ Assisting Venus”, Michael Steger( 90210), Jordan Bridges (Rizzoli & Isles), Julian Sands (24), Kirsten Gronfield (10 Items or Less); “Nothing Special” , Karen Black (Five Easy Pieces); “B-Girl” Jonathan Wesley (Roll Bounce), Jules “Lady Jules” Urich (America’s Best Dance Crew, Beat Freaks), Ivan “Flipz” Velez (Step Up 3D), Rynan “Rainen” Paguio (America’s Best Dance Crew, Jabbawockeez (Winner)), Jonathan “Legacy” Perez (So You Think You Can Dance)

Our long time sponsor the WGA will again be hosting one of our most compelling and outstanding seminars for emerging writers: “Sc-Fi – Can You Make It Scary Enough: How women are doing it” with writers -Pamela Pettler (Corpse Bride, Monster House, Robositter for Robert Zemekis), Gillian Horvath (Highlander: The Series) and Amy Berg (Leverage, Eureka).

The festival will run from October 14th -17th, 2010 in Los Angeles, CA and where we will be screenings of over 100 films which include independent features, shorts, music videos, commercials, special screenings and seminars. The four day event will be held at the Renberg Theatre in Los Angeles. LA Femme is dedicated to celebrating and empowering female artists creating work for a worldwide audience. LA Femme showcases works “by women for everyone” from all over the world. Ms LaPage sates, “No Festival does what we do for women, we care about the women Filmmakers, Writers, and Producers and help them gain access to Hollywood and get their films seen, sold and produced.”

Previous Celebrity Award Honorees included : Marianne Jean-Baptise (Without a Trace), Sara Gilbert ( Roseanne), Diablo Cody (Juno), Vivica Fox (Kill Bill), Rosanna Arquette (After Hours), Lea Thompson (Caroline in the City), Penelope Spheeris (Wayne’s World) ( Susan Seidelman (The Boynton Beach Bereavement Club), Maria Conchita Alonso (Mermaids), Jacqueline Bisset (Domino) and many more.

To purchase Full Access VIP Pass go to: www.lafemme.org Regular Price (0) Discounts for WGA and SAG Guild Members for (.99). Tickets for individual films are .00; Seminars are and can be purchased online or at the door. Events held at the Renberg Theatre in Hollywood: 1125 N McCadden Place 90038. For information on the entire line up of activates please visit our website at www.lafemme.org

Key sponsors include: (SAG) Screen Actors Guild Affirmative Action & Diversity, SAG Women’s Committee, (WGA) Writers Guild America West, Governor’s Office of Film and Entertainment State of Florida, W Hotel, Eurochannel, Dish Network, Red Light Promotions, 759 Events, Roaring Lion Drinks, Slim Stix, The Hair & Makeup Artists Network, Music Association, Pama, Lucy B Cosmetics, Daisy Mae Sweets and Treats and Sofitel Luxury Hotels. This year we welcome our new sponsor American Airlines.

Media Inquiries: To register press credentials for the Festival or to schedule an interview with Leslie LaPage, contact Donna Hull at 213-926-3301 or email llapage@lafemme.org

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LA Femme Film Festival highlights commercially-viable films written, directed or produced “by women for everyone”. Now in its sixth year, the festival is solely dedicated to nurturing a new breed of female filmmakers and providing opportunities for those careers to blossom.

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Historical source for behaviour adaptation to modern 7-tone music

Historical source for
behaviour adaptation
to modern 7-tone music

By Wendell W. Solomons
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Do you recollect ABBA saying it this way?

Thank you for the music,
Thank you for the joy its bringing,
Thank you – for giving it to me.

Whom should we thank for our first musical instruments? From which geographic area did waves of sound first ring out? Stones and wood could make a sound but perhaps bells, xylophone slats and frets of metal provided for the distribution, modulation and standardisation of musical scales and music?

The metal first put to wide use by men was copper. Mixed with a little tin, it produced the more resilent substance bronze.

Regarding sources for copper, Gunakar Muley says:

“Presently the site Tal-i-Iblis near the Kerman range in south-east Iran is regarded as the earliest known centre of copper metallurgy. The smelting equipment discovered from this site is datable to circa 4500 BC. From here the knowledge is believed to have spread to the west and the east. Towards the east Mundigak in Afghanistan and some pre-Harappan sites from Baluchistan provide evidence of copper and bronze metallurgy.”
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Among those first copper mines seem to have been mines in the Kheeveri mountains which fall within the borders of modern Afghanistan. Western European names for copper come probably from this region _1/ .

As for Eastern Europe, the commonest Slav name for copper is `med.’ That name leads us to the Median people (living in Persia,) once again in this region. The name of the fabled Magi appeared here and from them we derive the terms `magic’, `magistrate’ and `majesty’. The Hungarians believe they arrived from that homeland and they call themselves `Magyar’ to this day.

An encyclopaedia entry now:

“The Bronze Age occurred at different times in different parts of the world. In most areas, the development of bronze technology was preceded by an intermediary period when copper was used. This stage, sometimes called the Copper Age, did not occur in some areas, including ancient China and prehistoric Britain, where the transition was made directly from stone to bronze technology. In certain ancient cultures in Africa and elsewhere, stone was replaced directly by iron technology, and the Bronze Age was bypassed completely.” (Grotelier Encyclopedia)

Later, in the Biblical era of West Asia, Ur of the Chaldees, the traditional birthplace of Abram and Sara and a river port, imported the metal. The island of Bahrain (Dilmun) served as a transit point for the metal to the Euphrates river from whence the metal was moved westwards by overland caravan.

IMPACT OF METAL INSTRUMENTS AND TOOLS

The Bronze Age permitted the creation of more accurate measuring instruments. So the first sophisticated calendars for agricultural work appeared in areas incorporating the Indus Valley. The first metal tools (including metal plowshare) enhanced man’s agricultural productivity.

An increased food surplus could physically support the mental work of a larger population share of sages, healers, scribes, artisans, artists and musicians.

Much later in Rome, calendar makers still followed the count of fingers of the hands and had ten months ending in December. Then, Julius Caesar was advised to implant two months in the middle of the year and he named the months for himself and his chosen successor, Augustus. Still later, with the arrival of lenses and telescopes, planets Neptune and Pluto were discovered. With these changes, Napoleon Bonaparte is among those who attempted metrification now of the week, to ten days.

However, the seven heavenly bodies known before Caesar to Mesopotamian and Vedic astronomy continue to serve as the base for the seven-day week in our times. Even the names of days describe that (in many languages Saturday means Saturm’s day.)

Sabbath’ comes directly from the Semitic word `seba’a', which means seven’. Similar syllables occur in the Indo-European word stream. There is the Greek `septa’ for seven.

THE SET OF 7 HEAVENLY BODIES

If we go by early Greek, Chinese and Japanese civilisations, many early musical scales were pentatonic (5 “main notes;” still a feature of Gamelan music in Bali). In the pentatonic, the octave was divided by the simple means of counting the figures on one hand. Russian composer Borodin noticed it in folk song and used it in “Prince Igor” (it was represented in the modern production `Kismet’ by the song `Stranger in Paradise’.)

The earlier scale was tri-tonic (3 “main notes”) if we judge by fisherman/sailor hauling chants (take the `Volga Boatmen’ shanty sung by greats such as Paul Robeson) and the music of Native Americans and existent pre-Bronze Age tribesmen.

If the piano did not accomplish the task, two millennia later the world’s population is in the process of behavioural conditioning to the `major’ key of Western Europe. That comes about through the use in network media of the 7-tone scale of the electronic organ now factory-created by corporations such as YAMAHA in the Far East.

Instruments such as the violin and cello can produce half-tones and quarter tones between each of the seven tones, but the piano and Western fretted instruments are set to reproduce only five half tones. That gives a total of twelve that is – no more than the number of houses of the Zodiac used by early astronomers in making calendars.

This set scale seems to have percolated via traditional merchant settlements. In Cochin, India, alongside the Mattancherry synagogue (visible on the Net) still exists an ancient spice market that served rich trading houses in Genoa and Venice. After a day of taxing their wits, merchants would rejuvenate with entertainment and thence came aggregated commercial demand of the human faculties for music.

A variant based on the same number of tones and called the `minor’ key had become basic to the Eastern Slavs (it must be noted that in the late 19th and 20th Century composers such as Borodin, Mousourgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky contributed to a wave of the `minor’ key in Western Europe.)

Both the `minor’ and `major’ and scales of Western and Eastern Europe respectively seem to be gypsies, which took off from Asia somewhere adjacent to India.

So we seem to deal with the possibility that besides orienting with Bronze Age astronomy and mathematics, Europe seated itself on an Asian musical carpet.

MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR EXTRAVAGANZA

The `Magical Mystery Tour’, an album title of the Beatles, could reflect this journey on a magic carpet.

The Beatles had began like Elvis Presley with boogie-woogie and be-bop adopted from Fats Waller and other performers in harmonic progressions such as `Hound Dog’. This was served up like hot potatoes in the late 1950s by music distributors. In short, using White American performers, music distributors sold Black American staples.

After a repackaging enterprise far across the breadth of the Atlantic in Liverpool, the Beatles turned their electric guitars and seemed to stumble into something else with manager Brian Epstein – into music academy.

Britain was historically known to be long on shop-keepers (even military man Napoleon has a quip) and on puns, immortalised by Shakespeare,

At the same time the country was known to be short on composers.

Howver, the electric guitars of the Beatles roamed into Slav music in academic archives. The English words in their song `Those Were the Days’ were set note for note to the Russian traditional ballad `Dorogoj dlinnoju’. Only the tempo was altered from the original 6-beat, the same as in the gypsy airs `Two Guitars’ and `Dark Eyes’ (the rhythm resembles the later `Blue Danube’ waltz, which Strauss made famous in Vienna.) Most Russian ballads are pitched
in minor key (in contrast to the episodic minor transition, say in, in time-honoured English favourites such as `Ash Grove’ or `Greensleeves’.)

From the `Swan Lake’ ballet, the haunting harmonic progression of Tchaikovsky’s main theme became for Les Beatles the main chorus in their song `All my loving.’

Then there was Rimsky-Korsakov’s famed `Song of the Guest from India’ in the opera `Sadko’. The song is based on a wafting between major and minor scales because the composer’s objective was to let India dialogue with Russian audiences (he intended a multicultural event.) In the repertoire of Les Beatles , a waltz rhythm was introduced and the problem of song title resolved by calling the melody `Norwegian Woods’. However, it remains a give away. In the mind of a musicologist still constrained in the 1960s by `Britannia Rule the Waves’, Norse would represent multiculturalism too.

So whether John Lennon and lads took their `Magical Mystery Tour’ together with consultant musicologists from OUTSIDE the erstwhile British Empire is a question for us to resolve.

For circumstantial evidence in the matter we observe that extraordinary happenings had aroused the universal (that is also the meaning of `Catholic’) in Liverpool-born Irishman John Lennon. Catholic Ireland does not call itself England’s oldest colony without cause and we observe Lennon setting aside `Britannia Rule the Waves’ with an other-worldly universality which stretched to Transcendental Meditation in India.

For attire, Lennon had discarded the tie. He was now discarding his designer polyester/wool Kommisar attire and adopting the customary habit of commonfolk Asia, called in India or Pakistan the Salwar Khamiz (compare `chemise.’) He adopted Yoko Ono as mother for his child instead of camp-following blonde or brunette debutante, the choice of a hundred Western venue’s wealthy entertainers.

Viewing all the events in the prism of statistical probability, cause and effect become more explicable if something had really got under Lennon’s skin by his surmising more than the average about the laboratory of behaviour control.

This great Les Beatles musical extravaganza was soon to lead a huge number of pop groups to follow the revealed cosmopolitan lode. The trend also led Ravi Shankar’s sitar to world fame.

As events proceeded apace, music distributors began to fear a Pandora’s box effect of sponsoring through music, an unnecessary hyper-world consolidation. So by the 1990s, distributors put on blinkers and switched to bankrolling (i) lyrics that dumb down or debilitate. The same bankrolling was to follow for (ii) rhythm too.

Yet, it proved difficult to rub out the full effect of the Beatles. For the part of (iii) harmony their influence became ineffaceable in pop music. Of late TIME magazine (on July 1, 2002) complains that compact disk buyers are switching from the common coin of AOL-TIME-WARNER, EMI and the three other top music distributors to recordings sold thanks to the Internet, by small, outsider companies.

The Beatles extravaganza amused when it did not distract the anti-war protest rallies that plagued the Establishment in the 1960s. Such historical dovetailing of music and rallies waits repeating.

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How could we round off a discussion of the subject of social behaviour adaptation in music and time?

We know that the West had absorbed monotheism, Judaism `fulfilled’ in Christ’s words in the New Testament. Its birthplace was in the city cultures of the East. “History Begins in Sumer” is the name of an illustrious book. Here, a change had taken place from tribal, nomadic life.

A changed behaviour and ethic had emerged in cities with organised housing (right down to the size of bricks), organised streets, organised water supply systems, organised weights and measures for ease of sales of goods stocks. This change was firmly established before 2000 BC in cities of the Indus Valley civilisation. This civilisation deserves our attention because archaeologists have learnt that the territory exceeds not only the extent of deservedly famous Sumer but of the river civilisations of Mesopotamia and Egypt taken together.

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_1/ Gene Matlock tells us: “About 5,000 BC or earlier, a brilliant deified Phoenician Naga king and philosopher named Kuvera (also Kubera) learned how to smelt copper, gold, and other metals. These activities took place in the kingdom named after him, Khyber (“Kheeveri”), which consisted of a group of craggy mountains in what are now Southeastern Afghanistan and Northeastern Pakistan (i.e. the Khyber Pass). According to Hindu mythology, Kuvera and God Shiva lived in the totally barren, mineral-poor, goldless, frigid, lofty, bell-shaped or pyramidical peak of Kailasa in Western Tibet …’

“We derived our word `copper’ from Kuvera’s name. Eventually, the Nagas extended their influence over all of India. If you’ve intuited that Afghan Khyber (Kheever), Hebrew Heber (pronounced Kheever), Egyptian Khepri, Greek Khyphera, Cabeiri, Cypriotic Cip’ri (Kheep’ri) … ad infinitum, are somehow linked, you’ve intuited correctly.” Excerpted from <http://www.mondovista.com/baboquivari.html>

For mathematics and computing, it helps to travel onwards on our journey with Gene Matlock.

In Europe, mathematical calculation was once difficult. With the count of fingers on the hands, Latin used symbols such as VIII. Multiplication and further computation were held up until the decimal system was completed with the use of zero. Webster’s modern dictionary confirms that the term ‘zero’ is related to ‘cipher’ and Arabic ‘tsifr’.

Webster’s year 1828 dictionary helps us with a further bridge.

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CIPHER, noun

1. In arithmetic, an Arabian or Oriental character, of this form 0, which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but increases or diminishes the value of other figures, according to its position. In whole numbers, when placed at the right hand of a figure, it increases its value ten fold …

2. A character in general.

3. An intertexture of letters, as the initials of a name, engraved on a seal, box, plate, coach or tomb; a device; an enigmatical character. Anciently, merchants and tradesmen, not being permitted to bear family arms, bore, in lieu of them, their cyphers, or initials of their names…

4. A secret or disguised manner of writing; certain characters arbitrarily invented and agreed on by two or more persons, to stand for letters or words…

CIPHER, verb intransitive. In popular language, to use figures, or to practice arithmetic

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In general, the Russian-speaker uses ‘tsifra’ for numbers somewhat in the manner of the contemporary term ‘cyber’ (e.g. ‘cyberspace’). Also, Russian ‘kibernetika’ is ‘cybernetics’ (in robotics.)

Records in cuneiform set in baked clay tablets tell us that Mesopotamia did not have a symbol for zero. Therefore the completion of our decimal notation seems to have been achieved thanks to the Khyber areas of the Indus Valley civilisation. At the end of the day Harvard’s attempt to construct its iron curtain around that civilisation with a funded 25-odd year research project turns out to be a waste of social resources. That had also been in the case of the 1947 to 2001 delay in the release into public domain of the Dead Sea Scrolls, government property kept under lock and key primarily in the Rockefeller Museum and the Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem .

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The art of music, combining sound and lyrics, has been used by rogues, muses, and many drifters around the world to describe their adventures.  For this reason, for most vagabonds, music plays an important role in their lives.  Using sounds and stories that can travel through time, is instrumental for weary drifters, the music created can be used to uplift even the loneliest trip.

For roaming vagabonds, great music can help the traveler’s long journey go by a bit quicker and enhance their adventure.  A good tempo will always add some momentum to the spirit and faith of a long journey.  There can be different types of music for different types of trips; a long sad journey can be uplifted by adding favourite music that fills the soul with positive notions.  The traveller will sometimes find themselves in tune with the beat of the music and even entranced in the stories told in the songs.  The more creative vagabond will sometimes discover a new song to write and even sing about their own adventures.

How to create a good travel music playlist Start off by looking at your own collection.  Sort through all the song titles and artists from your collection and find music written and played specific to destinations, travel, and tempo.  A few songs for example are “Going Mobile” by The Who, “Drive” by Blind Mellon, “Jet Airliner” by The Steve Miller Band… Take the list of songs and add them together in a play list.  This is done depending on your source of music collection.  If your using a computer this is easily done using a media player, if you have CDs or other old school technology, you will have to copy, burn, or record the specified songs onto its source . Once you have a playlist recorded, burned or copy, give it a cool name to label it.  Use a theme related to travelling, such as “Vagabond Vocals”, “Gypsy Guitars”, or simply “My Travel Tunes” A good player such as a MP3 player, cassette player, CD player, DVD player, record player, will need to be carried with you on your trek.  If you are walking or cycling, a portable player might be more convenient.  Most cars, trucks, and recreational vehicles will have a player in them.  The type of player is up to the specific vagabond…whether you are old school or up with technology that depends on the individual. Today a portable computer devise is ideal, it will not only play music, but also the modern vagabond can watch music videos and more.  The portable computer may require a set of speakers for better sound quality and loudness. The musical travellers can play their own music using the instrument of their preference or just use their wonderful voices.  The preferred instruments for travellers are, like the music players, the portable types such as harmonicas, spoons, guitars, trumpets, whatever pleases the musician at heart.

When roving around, good tunes help the bad and irrelevant news from being heard..Turn on the Vagabonding Music and have a good trip!
The following link is a compilation of music found on YouTube that can help the vagabond with her travels.  Everyone has their own taste in music and there is a large variety of it to choose from.  This music has been chosen by theme related to travel and destination.

Music by Manuel Iman. Video edited by Malcolm Davey. I believe the dancer is Ricardo? Delgado. www.eversound.com http www.wopg.org
Video Rating: 4 / 5

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