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Blog 9 Shu Wen Hsu
The Mevlevi spinning dance needs a high physical requirement for its dancer-Sama Zan, but the music plays during the Sama ceremony help the dancer overcome their physical limitation to enter into the meditation and contemplation. The music text is sacred, full of cosmos atmosphere to worship God. It helps the listener’s body relax and […]
Blog 8 Shu Wen Hsu
“Under My Thumb” is a pop rock song and written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richard in 1966. This song mainly described the pride of a male who revises the power from his ex-girlfriend and how he treated their relationships. Woman for him is just like the domestic pet. “she’s the sweetest, hmm pet […]
Blog 7 Shu Wen Hsu
I want to introduce my country’s aboriginal tribe’s music – “Pasibutbut”. This is a very unique genre which was not contain any lyric and performed only by male’s vocal. The tribe is call “Bunun”, like many of other tribes in my country they lived and spread out between the mountains of Taiwan. They have […]
Blog 6 Shu Wen Hsu
“Baamaaya” is Ghana’s traditional dance. The purpose of this dancing is to please God and asking rain for the draught land. Male misconduct was believed to cause the draught. Villagers make those male wear female clothes as kind of punishment in order to please God. Finally, rain pour, little boy shouts out “Baamaaya (wet […]
Blog 5 Shu Wen Hsu
My most favorite concert type is the symphony orchestra. Within this type of the concert, I can focus on the music itself, enjoy it without been interrupted. This type of concert contains many kinds of music instruments; because each instrument has its own unique character which makes the music so rich and colorful. In […]
Blog 4 Shu Wen Hsu
he movie of “Back to Future” is about a high school student Marty in 1985 used the time machine which was built by his friend Doc to travel to 1955. Since he was in 1955, he tried to fix the relationship between his parents and between his friends. But the biggest challenge for him is […]
Blog 3 Shu Wen Hsu
The purpose to create notation technology is to preserve the music for the future, besides, many composers experienced the difficulty to preserve their music because of many new kinds of instruments are introduced to the audiences, such as the new timbre’s form and new textures needed to be preserved correctly. By reading the modern […]
Blog 2 Shu Wen Hsu
The song I pick is “The Color of the Wind”. It was published in 1995 and was used for Disney’s movie “Pocahontas”. It was composed by Alan Menken and lyricist is Stephen Schwartz. It was the first and the only English song’s cassette that I bought, and it was my first English song that I […]
Hsu Blog 1
The most interesting period for me within the six categories of the Western Art Music is 20th century period, because this period of music is the current music. It is easy for me to understand because we are exposed in this kind of music environment every day. I chose “The Butterfly Lovers” Violin Concerto […]
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