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The Silent Cellist

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Spreading Peace and Unity in the World by Uniting Cultures Through the Use of Art and Music

Spreading Peace and Unity in the World by Uniting Cultures Through the Use of Art and Music In the end I guess art is what you make of it. Art can be simple or complex. It can tell a story or convey ideas. It can even simply express an emotion. Art doesn't in the end really need to be anything, and in fact it may just simply be. As a musician I have always enjoyed combining different styles of music. I try as hard as I can to learn everything I can about the subject, and engulf myself with it.… Continue

Added by The Silent Cellist on June 27, 2008 at 9:05am — No Comments

Musical Taxonomy/A Cladistic approach...

Well, I just want to get this idea out there. I thought I'd dabble in Ethno-musicology at one point. I'm really into Evolutionary Biology, and I made an observation regarding the taxonomy of music, and its flaws. I think i've come up with a better system. In the past, taxonomy employed a system called Linnaen taxonomy. A brief description from wikipedia: "Linnaean taxonomy is a method of classifying living things, originally devised by (and named for) Carl Linnaeus, although it has changed cons… Continue

Added by The Silent Cellist on June 1, 2008 at 8:41am — 1 Comment

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