Tips on Choosing Your Wedding Musicians

Choosing your wedding music and musicians should never be underestimated. It is a tricky business. The possibilities are simply as wide as the world of song and sound. What’s important is, you clearly itemize everything to avoid any unpleasant surprises on you big day.

Here are some of the important elements you should look into when you choose your wedding musicians.

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Understanding the Sonata and Sonatina Form

A Sonata is a musical composition of several contrasting movements for one or two instruments. A symphony is a sonata for orchestra; a quartet is a sonata for four instruments and a concerto is a sonata for solo instrument and orchestra.

The term sonata form or sonata-allegro form refers to the design or plan frequently used in the first movement. It has three main parts: exposition, development, and recapitulation. Each of these main parts has sections arranged according to key relationships.

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Music Abuse and Ear Damage

Loud music, whether it comes from radios, headphones or at a rock band concert, could impair one’s hearing.

Doctors have warned that prolonged exposure to loud music could damage the ear drums. When exposed for several hours to 120 db-A (the intensity of sound measured at a dance club), permanent hearing loss might result.

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Notable Covers of Tears for Fears Songs

I’m a huge fan of Tears for Fears from the 80’s till now. As a teen back then I just loved how their songs

sounded, but I couldn’t place where the beauty lies. Their eccentricity attracted me and the variety of their compositions kept my ears glued to the headphones. After more than two decades, with Roland Orzabal’s passionate singing style and Curt Smith’s choir boy voice, coupled with smooth bass lines interspersed with driving yet still melodic instrumental leads, their music and compositions still rock. After having studied music as my major in college, I appreciate them all the more. Here are some of their originals and the notable covers of their songs.

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Tchaikovsky’s Deadly Symphony: Superstition or Fact?

Many musicians believe that some musical compositions court sinister coincidence. Among them were the noted conductors, Arturo Toscanini and Walter Damrosch.

The Pathetique has a somber history. Maestro Toscanini declared it to be the most sorrowful of all symphonic music and explained: “In its adagio lamentation it is the wail of a soul in torment. Perhaps the soul or Peter Ilyich Tchakovsky is eternally imprisoned therein for it was the swan song of this greatest of all Russian composers.”

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