DATE: MONDAY WEEK 08 TRIMESTER #2AUTHOR: Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizQUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic."MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Rhythms of music come from the syllables of the words we speak. Rhythms are notated using mathematic.
symbols. So…all speech is math.”
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DATE: TUESDAY WEEK 08 TRIMESTER #2AUTHOR: PlatoQUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"The music masters familiarizes children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and more capable in whatever they say or do, for rhythm and harmony are essential to the whole of life."MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Exposure to music at a young age makes for a well-adjusted adult.”------------------------------------------------------------------------
DATE: WEDNESDAY WEEK 08 TRIMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Jules CombarieuQUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Music is the art of thinking with sounds."MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“The sounds in music can communicate messages as words can in a book.”
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DATE: THURSDAY WEEK 08 TRIMESTER #2AUTHOR: Robbie Robertson
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Music should never be harmless."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Music is often used to communicate controversial issues and to make you think about them.”----------------------------------------------------------------------
DATE: FRIDAY WEEK 08 TRIMESTER #2AUTHOR: Benjamin Britten
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony."MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“The saddest experiences that music portrays tends to create the most beautiful music.”--------------------------------------------------------------------
