The Singing of the New World: Indigenous Voice in the Era of European Contact

By admin on May 15, 2010

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In The Singing of the New World Gary Tomlinson offers histories of ancient music long since silent: the songs of the Indians that Europeans met in the sixteenth century. Merging recent cultural history, early European accounts, archaeological findings, and rare indigenous documents for the Mexica (or Aztecs), the Incas, and the Tupinamba of lowland Brazil, Tomlinson explores the place of singing in these societies. He details the expressive and ritual ends it was ex… More >>

The Singing of the New World: Indigenous Voice in the Era of European Contact

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My Voice

By admin on April 4, 2010

  • Revolutionary software designed to remove the vocals from audio CDs
  • Create remixes by recording your voice over original soundtracks
  • Type words into on-screen Karaoke window, and sync them to the music
  • Studio effects such as reverb, echo, compressor, and 10-band equalizer
  • Change tempo or pitch of music; high-quality microphone included

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Take your favorite audio CDs and replace the singer. Hide the main vocals on your audio CDs, change the key, change the tempo, and adapt the songs to your singing style, add lyrics, use studio quality effects, record and mix your own voice over the original song, create and burn your songs to audio CD’s and play them onto your stereo, your PC, i-Pod – anywhere! It’s time for you to be the singer, and become the star. Amazing features: You hide the vocals of your… More >>

My Voice

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The Human Voice – The King Or Queen Of All Musical Instruments!

By admin on October 28, 2009

There a one liner made famous in the old TV detective show Dragnet “the facts ma am. nothing but the facts.” I don’t know if Jack Webb was a musician or a teacher, but considering that the study of music is infinite I better take his advice.

I am in the “October” of my life and I think , I finally understand a least man-made music and his conception of it. Asking questions and reading books or any literature on the subject has sort of satisfied my quest for the “whys” of music. I have been practicing how to do this or that for years and years but the “whys” can set the creative mind to take off, so no more “can’t get no satisfaction….” Since the infinite is to deep for me, lets deal with man made music.

I have come to the conclusion that all man made musical instruments have to be in the range of the human voice, a little higher or lower that’s O.K. If not, they will become obsolete.

The human voice has kept man made music earth bound and the amazing things it that it range or distance is on the average only two and one half octaves! That’s Johnny Cash territory and not Andrea Bucelli who really likes to stretch it, and its made him famous. The human voice is a marvelous instrument, the king and queen of all!  Read more...

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