Acts alone do not help in the promotion or prevention of a culture from going to rack and ruin. The hapless condition of our Music & Culture is a glaring example of governmental apathy and neglect. According to a report prepared by UNESCO, the Punjabi language will disappear from the world in 50 years. Our language, dialects, and specially one of the oldest, enduring rich heritages of music, is decaying.

We ourselves are discouraging our children from opting for arts, culture & music as a career. Envious of the progeny of our nearest & dearest ones studying medicine, engineering or IT, we force our children to pick the same career, which they may be least interested in. We don’t want our children to be what they wish to be, and where they can excel; rather we wish them to be, what they don’t want to be and remain average. We want to create doctors, engineers and managers at the cost of our fine tradition of arts and culture. This is a catastrophic development.

We are ignoring music, arts & culture education at the primary level, secondary level, and undergraduate level. In India music is provided very little support as an academic subject, and music teachers feel that they must actively seek greater public endorsement for music education as a legitimate subject of study. Hence, music advocacy is to be promoted significantly. It is our collective responsibility to preserve our inheritance and to develop it into a rich legacy for future generations.

Modernity does not make tradition redundant. We are the offspring of a complex and rich culture, and music has played a crucial role in synthesizing it. It merits more than a disinterested glance by the authorities in colleges and universities. One is amazed at their callousness and quite dumbfounded at their ignorance when they talk of abolishing the subject from their syllabus. They argue that ‘unnecessary’ subjects require monetary props and they want to save their beloved country some much needed cash. We are not the victims of any financial crisis but of pure, unalloyed prejudice. Who will take up cudgels on behalf of us musicians who languish on the dusty shelves of modern education in India?

Of course, a new education policy has been announced by our Govt. Sadly, only technology, polytechnics, industry linked training centers, medicine, management etc. have been the point of discussion. What about our culture, arts and music? Philosophers and pedagogues variously define education. This is said to be the sum total of a man’s character. Education in the Indian tradition is not merely a means of earning a living; nor is it only a nursery of thought or a school for citizenship. It is initiation into the life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth, and the practice of virtue. However in the present context it is a means to earn one’s living. Education should not merely be treated as a means of empowering people to get jobs for livelihood. The Indian Education Commission (1964-66) asserted that education ought to be related to the life, needs and aspirations of the people and thereby made a powerful instrument of social economic and cultural transformation.

Music has also remained the victim of State Govt. ‘s horrendous apathy and neglect. As the result of the deliberate, inexplicable intentions of the Punjab Govt. posts of lecturers in music from various Government Colleges like Govt. Barjindra Collge, Faridkot, were abolished. They declared that such subjects were an unnecessary surplus and a drain on the treasury. Later on, following an agitation by the Student and Teacher Unions of Punjab, and keeping in view the upcoming elections, the Govt. of Punjab changed its mind and a few posts were reinstated.

Our academia in India has failed to attract students who are genuinely interested in music. Life has changed in the last decade. We cannot apply the same decadent vision to our education system. Our educational institutes are offering the same old fashioned, hackneyed, outmoded two/three year courses & examination programs in arts, culture and music. A revision is mandatory and it should be accepted without any raising of eyebrows. We will have to design new state-of-the-art curricula to urge students towards the study of art & culture, especially music.

The United States of America and some of the European Countries have outlined National Standards for arts Education to be followed by mostly all student and teacher at the primary level, as well as the secondary level art education.

• Students should be able to communicate at a basic level in the four arts disciplines-dance, music, theatre, and the visual arts. • Students should be able to communicate proficiently in at least one art form. • Students should be able to develop and present basic analyses of works of art. • Students should have an informed acquaintance with exemplary works of art from a variety of cultures and historical periods. • Students should be able to relate various types of arts, knowledge, and skills within and across the arts disciplines.

There is a set of national standards in music education also, which most teachers adhere to:

• Singing alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music. • Performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music. Improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments. • Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines. • Reading and notating music. • Listening to, analyzing, and describing music. • Evaluating music and music performances. • Understanding relationships between music, the arts, and other disciplines outside the arts.

The Indian Government and private institutions should also include these musical standards in their Education system. Teachers should establish these standards in classrooms beginning in a kindergarten general music class, and ending in undergraduate level general, band, choral, or orchestral classes.

In today’s ‘global village’ scenario, the higher education system of developing nations like us must seek integration with universal learning. The concept of internationalization of higher education in syllabi, teaching and research should be implemented. Our institutes must introduce some new ultra modern courses in music.

Small duration Courses:

Music playing and performance courses should be offered at college level, e. g. Guitar/Sitar/Tabla Intermediate (duration 3 months), Music performance, Flute Ensemble etc. 3 months duration Courses in different instruments like Sitar, Tabla, Harmonium, Sarangi, Flute, Violin, Guitar, Synthesizer, Drums etc. Different courses in different genres should be offered e. g. Classical, Folk, World Music, Fusion, Bollywood, Light Music, Western including Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Romantic, Opera, Operetta, Zarzuela, Rock, Grind core, Heavy Metal, Punk, Pop, Rhythm & Blues, Rap, Jazz, Electronica, Break beat, Drum & Bass, Ambient, Electro, Down tempo, Electro, House, Trance, Techno, UK Garage, Reggae, Calypso etc.

We must host in our college, graduate and undergraduate programs in musicology, evolutionary musicology, ethnomusicology, bio-musicology, music technology, zoo-musicology, music therapy, musilanguage, and music education.

Courses in Musicology (Socio-musicology, Zoo-musicology and Evolutionary Musicology): including:

Music Archeology, Music Appreciation, Introduction to Musicology, Methodology (research methods) of Music, Philology of Music, Orchestration, Counterpoint and Fugue, Acoustics of Music, Aesthetic Philosophy, Composer or Genre, Topics in Music Literature, Introduction to Music Bibliography.

Courses in Zoo musicology: including:

Fundamentals of Sound and Music of the World, World Music Theory and Musicianship, Musical Cultures of the World, World Music Performance Organizations, Psychology of Music, Experhymental Research in Music, Anthropology of Music, Music of different countries, Music and Mind, Historical Readings in Ethnomusicology, Material Culture of Music, Interpretive Theories and Music.

Courses in Music Technology: including:

Degree Course in Creative Sound Engineering & Music Technology, Degree in Audio & Music Production, Live Sound Courses, Music Writing, Music Business, Music Publishing.

Music Therapy Courses:

A university in Australia is offering a course in Music Therapy which includes: – Applications of Music in Therapy (child clients, adult clients, contemporary contexts), Research in Music Therapy, Music Psychology Research, Music Therapy Skills (guitar, voice, groups and verbal counseling skills, improvisation skills, working toward performance and songwriting, vocal improvisation, receptive methods), Clinical Training in Music Therapy, Guided imagery and music (therapy that combines music and deep relaxation states to explore and guide thoughts and feelings).

Music Education courses:

This program should be designed to enhance the knowledge, skills and understanding of both current and prospective music educators. One can learn through academic study and practice within an international context.

Institutions must start offering courses which are universally recognized and acclaimed. Each course must provide an opportunity for all different kinds of musicians to pursue their own work. A student should also learn about the wider context of music. One of the primary aims of the course should be to facilitate students’ understanding of their contemporary musical world, in short its wide historical and contemporary context. At the same time, Music Degree pathways should offer considerable crossovers and opportunity for collaboration, so that a student is enabled to explore and use the most advanced techniques of contemporary music. Throughout the course, a student should be encouraged to choose his/her own area of focus and identify his/her own distinctive musical personality. This personal evolution of potential will easily lead to a body of composition, performance or written work that will, in turn, open doors both to existing career paths and the creation of new market niches. A creative vocational approach arms graduates with diversity of experience, backed with a strong skill base and theoretical underpinning.

Hey, did you hear about RiffRaters? It is a new music app used in the iphones. This application has been designed for the music lovers only. It has helped a lot of music lovers to make their mark in the field of music. People who are interested in music or themselves are talented musicians or singer can use this application to record and share their music with other iphone users who are interested in music. This way they can get famous very easily, only if their music is of good quality and liked by the people. Thousands of bands and young musicians try to get to the light every year, of all those people very few get the opportunity to get to the lime light.

Music promotion is the main key to success for a band or musician to get success in the tough competition. Only those people succeed who can get through this promotion process properly. Those who neglect this can never succeed. How can a band succeed if they don’t have any audience? Unless the audience loves the music, success will be long away. For making the audience love the music, you have to make them listen to your music. If you do not promote your music or promote your band to the general people, you can’t get to the lime light even if your music is world class. Promotion of music is something like marketing. The more you do, the more people get to know about it.

There are various methods of music promotions, of which the use of RiffRaters is the latest. It is also the easiest way to promote your music. If you have a iphone, rush to your nearest iphone dealer and ask them for this music app, RiffRaters. Using this music app, you can record and share your music with other music lovers who are using this music app in their iphone. They will find your music tracks on their iphone’s RiffRaters, listen to them if they want and rate those tracks. The highest rated tracks get superior positions in the application and more people are able to listen to them.

Even if you do not have a band to promote, you can use this use this application to listen to other people’s music tracks and rate them. There are also several other ways for music promotion which are very effective for a band or a solo artist. These other methods consists of joining social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace etc and uploading your music riffs in those websites, so that other users can find them and listen to them. Apart from these, there are several other methods for music promotion also. But, the latest method is the use of the iphone music app, RiffRaters.

If a person overlooks these methods of music promotion, then it will be very hard and almost impossible for him to make his dream of performing on stage come true. The dream will remain a dream forever. This has happened to many talented artists. You should follow the methods of to promote your music.

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What are any songs/composers/soundtracks that help you fall asleep? (music w/ instruments only no singing). Essentially — If you need any great instrumentals, I suggest the Vitamin String Quartet. They do covers of The Beatles, Switchfoot, Guns N Roses, Linkin Park, Maroon 5, James Blunt, Oasis, Nickelback and MANY others, but the covers are all pretty much just strictly string instruments. 1 minute Sample of Them Doing “Time Of Your Life” by Green Day/”In The End” by Linkin Park/ “Sober” by Tool/”Bring Me To Life” by Evanescence/”Karma Police” by Radiohead/ Sample Of Them Doing “Iris” by Goo Goo Dolls And of course you can get about 183 other search results for Vitamin String Quartet on YouTube

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There are many things couples need to do when it comes to planning their wedding and especially when it comes to their wedding reception. During the wedding reception the most beautiful things happens, mostly because this is the way in which people decide to celebrate their beautiful union, by sharing the emotional moment with all of their closest friends and family members.

One of the most important things in the entire wedding reception is the music. Given that at wedding parties people need to have fun, there is no better way to assure the fun but by playing the perfect music. The traditional American wedding reception start with the first dance of the bride and groom, is then followed by the father-bride dance and mother-groom dance and then, the dance floor can be invaded by all the wedding guests. You can play anything, from Adele (with tracks such as “Someone Like You” or “Rolling in the Deep”) to Lady Gaga (ideal when you are looking for a track with a little more rhythm).

The music chosen for the wedding reception is extremely important, as it needs to include all types of songs, as there are different people at the wedding and each and every one of them has their own preferences in terms of the music they listen to. Usually, the music chosen for a wedding reception needs to be the kind of music people can dance on. Therefore, the songs mostly played are either slow and romantic, so as to encompass the entire emotion of the event, or full of rhythm, so as to allow people to dance. Even so, you need any slow songs, classic love ones like “Dust in the Wind”, “Careless Whisper” or “Nothing’s Gonna Change My Love for You. “

The best thing couples can do for their wedding reception is either to have a very varied playlist or to hire a band, to make sure they please each and every guest. As I said, it is very important to be able to please all your guests and there is no better way to do it than to give them all a chance to dance on a song they know. Music is very important and it needs to be carefully chosen, especially when you are making your playlist for the wedding reception. What most people today seem to forget is that there will be older people at the wedding and they should take them into account as well when they are choosing the songs that will play at the reception.

Today’s music is quite full of rhythm, but it is mostly for young people, who know how to dance on it. This is why there is a certain type of music which couples decide to choose for their wedding reception. Usually, at wedding receptions are played songs which are quite famous, old songs, which even our grandparents know, so as to give everyone present a chance to go to the dance floor and share a dance. Therefore, the best thing couples can do is go online and take a look at what the most famous wedding songs are. What they will find is old music, which is quite slow and romantic, perfect for slow dancing. There are also any other types of songs, which are full of rhythm and they usually are perfect for dancing in groups.

Music is a very important element in the entire wedding reception and couples should think very well about what type of songs they are going to include in their wedding playlist. If you do not want to have issues and problems with this particular thing, you can always hire a band to come play at the wedding. They are more expensive than a DJ, but they will surely get the stress out of your shoulders.

The best thing about wedding bands is that they can play basically anything you may ask them to and this is why they are so popular among couples who want to get married. They are like a computer, but better and live.