I had a friend that went to the yanni concerts .. he like him ,,, he took his family ... I was just realizing that "new age" music and things was just a ploy to get people to buy the music at very high prices... I did not fall into the yanni group of new age things... I want to believe that some of the music new agers modeled their music after broke away frrom the new age label and were just rogue ... and remained true to the original style of music the new age sprung off from ... still yet I did like those solstic concerts and albums that came out that were almost new age.. and thought to be new age by people who like new age... ethnic and medieval music is way cool ... today genre's don't mean much they are just an addition tag or something ,,, with my music I have created my own genre called newbold ... that is just my last name... so I have 17,200 digital songs of the newbold genre that I regularly remix with each other for the new videos ... and I do continue to make new music and new video and so forth. like this...
mostly I experiment with sound effects and mixing them.. altering them and things.. I love to listen to my music and others like my music too but yeah popular is like a million subscriptions my 2800 subscribers is really nothing .. my fiancée doesn't think I make any music just noise .. her neice said my music makes her freak out .. that it was like listening to the fingernails down a chalkboard sound in school ... after she said that I made an event for my online music group about fingernails down a chalkboard ,,, they like that kind of thing.,.. and all our music is like that at times.
Oh I edited my post before with the gifs of music
My first impression is that this music would do great to set the mood for a suspenseful murder mystery. I have no idea what you think of when you hear it, but that's what came to my mind.
I got interested in shawm music because of the stories I'm writing. They're set in various times and places in the medieval/Renaissance eras, with a bit of anachronistic placements (the computer game that's the source material for this fanfiction is set in the early 11th century, yet has a character quoting both
Richard III and
Little Red Riding Hood - therefore, it should be only fair that I get to fudge the dates of when the shawm was popular, because I want one of my characters to play it and annoy the hell out of his enemies - because shawms are LOUD).
I've never been clear on most labels people put on music. Modern labels baffle me. I just know that I like folk music for the most part, as well as waltzes and polkas (wrote a few of those way back when I was doing my music theory exams for the Western Board of Music, and it was a nice surprise to play them for my grandmother and have her ask where I'd learned them - and then really surprise her by telling her I'd composed them myself).
Back in the years when I worked in musical theatre, I had the chance to learn a lot of songs. I started off playing by ear, and it was years before I started formal lessons and learned to read music. In the meantime I'd listen to records or shows on TV and work out the songs I liked on the organ. One of the best compliments my dad ever paid me was if I started playing a song he knew and liked, he'd start whistling along with it. To this day I'm surprised that he knew "Paper Roses", since I wouldn't have thought that to be something he'd like.
But my grandmother liked Gordon Lightfoot and Johnny Cash, so I learned a few of their songs. Her favorites were "Early Morning Rain" and "Ring of Fire". My dad liked to whistle along to some of the Irish Rovers songs I learned.
Learning at the theatre was interesting. I was on the properties crew, so I attended as many of the rehearsals as I could, to know exactly who was supposed to use which items, how they were going to use it, and whether they had to be functional or just look like what they were supposed to be, not to mention whether they were something we could buy or borrow, or something that would have to be made from scratch. I needed to know where the actor was entering and exiting, so the prop would be placed exactly where the actor needed it to be.
One night at rehearsal, the set construction crew needed to use part of the stage - at the same time that the conductor and cast were rehearsing "Wunderbar" (for
Kiss Me, Kate).
Both the conductor and the set crew got very irritated with each other because no sooner would the music start, then so would the hammering.
Finally after getting yelled at a few times, the guy in charge of building that set piece asked the conductor, "What's the time signature of the song you're rehearsing?"
The answer was 3/4, as "Wunderbar" is a waltz. So the set guy said, "Okay, we can work around this."
For the rest of the rehearsal that night, the set crew hammered in 3/4 time, exactly in time with the song. In the meantime, I was listening and absorbing the song so I could go home later and play it for my grandmother.
As for "New Age", I've heard both Yanni and Enya mentioned as examples of this. Some people look down on it, but that's unfair. Before you add in the electronics and other effects, they need to know how to play their instruments to begin with. The "Acropolis" concert includes a piece called "Felitsa" - which Yanni wrote to honor his mother. I've heard both the concert version and one that was obviously not from that concert. And that was the first time I truly enjoyed piano music. That song flows like a beautiful river, with little eddies dancing and playing around each other.
. OK it is later selections from this video here
