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| Your favourite song? | | I like many songs and I find it difficult to point a particular
song as a favourite song. I love classical songs and classical music the most.I do love songs based on western music,folk music, jazz, pop, rap and other forms of music. Your favourite song please. People in India love variety music. | |
| | Musical Genres | | What's your favourite type of music, if you have one? I generally prefer folk music. Bob Dylan is definitely one of my faves. | |
| | A.R.Rehman v/s Himesh Reshammiya | | Rahman is the only son of R. K. Sekhar, who was a composer, arranger and conductor for Malayalam films. His father died when Rahman was nine years old, and his family used to rent out musical equipment to make ends meet, something they found very difficult. During those hard times, a Sufi (Muslim) saint helped them spiritually. This led Dileep to convert to Islam, changing his name to Allah Rakha Rahman.At the age of 11, Rahman joined the troupe of Indian composer Ilaiyaraaja as a keyboardist. He later played on the orchestra of M. S. Viswanathan and Ramesh Naidu, and accompanied Zakir Hussain and Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan on world tours. The experience allowed him to obtain a scholarship to Trinity College at Oxford University, where he received a degree in Western classical music.In 1991, Rahman began his own studio (attached to his house), called the Panchathan Record Inn. He initially composed music for use in advertisements, the title musicIndian Television channels and music in documentaries, among other projects. Rahman was, at first, hesitant about composing music for the Indian film industry primarily because most film makers at the time used songs as "fillers" - a... | |
| | A R REHMAN: SINGER RATED VERY HIGH IN WESTERN & HINDUSTAN | | He made an album Vande Mataram (1996) on India's national song, singing the title song on the album. He followed it up with an album called Jana gana mana, a huge conglomeration of performances by all the leading exponents/artists of Indian classical music. Rahman, along with the Finnish folk music band Värttinä, composed the music for The Lord of the Rings theatre production, which opened in Toronto on March 23, 2006. What is your comments about the great man. | |
| | What are your Christmas traditions in your country? | | In Romania,the counntry I live in have lots of traditions depending of the region of the country.
Carols form an important part of the Romanian folklore. Romanian carols are not simple songs (a sort of invocation in verse sung by children and lads, on the evening of Winters Holidays) with religions origin, but wide windows through which we are allowed once in a year to go by the immaculate snow-towards the evergreen Heaven and to eye-touch God at least for an instant, in order to give us the power to surpass the life's obstacles. Carols put people in the mood for a perfect communion with the simple and healing greatness of Jesus' Birth. The carol singers walk in the streets of the villages and towns holding in their hands a star made of board and paper with biblical scenes painted in water colors and they sing:
"Do you receive the pretty star,
Pretty and so very bright?
It Haseko we did in the sky
Just like God thought it would be right,
Stand it could be seen on high,
Just like we did in the sky"On the first Christmas day, children walk in the streets of snow covered towns and villages, when holding in their hands a star made of board and paper with a biblical scenes... | |
| | Anyone out there like John Denver? | | I am a big fan of folk music. Aside from Peter,Paul, and Mary, I love John Denver's music. I never get tired of listening to "Country Roads", or "Grandma's Feather Bed". What is your favorite John Denver song? | |
| | folk music | | I like this kind of music originating from the ordinary people of a region or nation and continued by oral tradition.
Do you like folk music, too?
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| | Have you ever enjoyed Chinese folk music? | | I like listening to Chinese folk music. Now I am listening to a piece of music named xiao fang niu played with the instrument of Dizi---flute. Does anyone like listening to Chinese music too? | |
| | Latvia's cultural heritage | | I visited a folk music festival in Riga (Latvia's beautiful capital) once. I was amazed at their folk singing. It was out of this world! Have you been to Riga? Have you experienced Latvian folk music? | |
| | Do you Like ROCK music.....!!!??? | | Musical style that arose in the U.S. in the mid-1950s and became the dominant form of popular music in the world. Though rock has used a wide variety of instruments, its basic elements are one or several vocalists, heavily amplified electric guitars (including bass, rhythm, and lead), and drums. It began as a simple style, relying on heavy, dance-oriented rhythms, uncomplicated melodies and harmonies, and lyrics sympathetic to its teenage audience's concerns-young love, the stresses of adolescence, and automobiles. Its roots lay principally in rhythm and blues (R&B) and country music. Both R&B and country existed outside the mainstream of popular music in the early 1950s, when the Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed (1921–65) and others began programming R&B, which until then had been played only to black audiences. Freed's success gave currency to the term rock and roll. The highly rhythmic, sensual music of Chuck Berry, Bill Haley and the Comets, and particularly Elvis Presley in 1955–56 struck a responsive chord in the newly affluent postwar teenagers. In the 1960s several influences combined to lift rock out of what had already declined into a bland and mechanical format. In... | |
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