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A Glimpse into Music School of US

mischool — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:07:00 +0000

Music is the most sought after hobby and activity all over the world. There are several music schools in U.S. that claim to train the students in highly professional and skilled manner. But Musicians Institute has bagged the tag of best music school imparting music lesson in various areas of music. Here we would see different types of music training given at this music college. We help our students build up a lucrative music career by giving state of the art training in various musical instruments and music programs. Music knows no limits in terms of geographical location or religion. Students from all over the world come here to take training and polish their skills.

Musicians institute of music offers excellent degree and certificate courses in bass lesson, vocal lesson, guitar lesson, keyboard lesson, percussion, audio engineering, music recording, music video production and setting up of music business. Students choose the music program they wish from the wide range of music course curriculum. Those who are aspiring for music engineering can join in the music production school where topics related to it are taught like music mixing, digital signal processing, practical recording, track programming, etc. The student should carefully study the available music programs, facilities, career opportunities, fees, etc of an audio engineering school before taking in the admission.

Music video production is also another career option for music lovers. There are various aspects related to this concept, like- editing, directing, producing, filming, cinematography, etc. A good music production school would cover all essential topics that go in designing state of the art music course. Are you searching for a good music recording school? Then your search ends at Musicians Institute. Song analysis, visual media, recording, etc are taught here in a professional manner. This institute offers degree program, certificate, majors and non-certificate in many music programs.

Bozen / Bolzano

MarcoItaly — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:36:25 +0000

This Italian mountain town near to the Austrian border features the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology. The Ötzi museum, as it is also known, charts the history of South Tyrol (Alto-Adige) from the first glacial period (150 000 BC) to the Carolingian period. The famous Ötzi is the star attraction. The “iceman” was found in 1991 near the Similaun glacier in the Ötztaler Alpen. He is estimated to have been about 45 when he died and was preserved in ice for 5300 years. He is now preserved in a cold chamber which keeps a constant temperature of less than 6° C.

The Cathedral is a Church of pink sandstone consecrated to winegrowing and grape-harvest. It has involved construction spanning the Early Christian, Carolingian, Romanesque and Gothic periods. The campanile, built in the 16C and modernised with the addition of Gothic windows, reaches 62 m. On the right side you will see the small Wine portal, which is decorated in imagery associated with winegrowing and grape-harvest. The church used to have exclusive rights to sell wine in front of this door.

In the Dominican Church (I Dominicani), you’ll see Frescoes by Friedric Pacher and by the Giotto school. This Church was Built in a Gothic style. It was than modified and then damaged during the secularisation of 1785. You must see Saint Giovanni Chapel (after the Rood Screen) for its frescoes by the Giotto school and its cloister, decorated in Frescoes by Friedrich Pacher.

At the Franciscan Church (I Francescani), admire a sculpted wood altar and a retable by Hans Klocker. This church burned down in 1291 and was then rebuilt in the 14C and the original arches put back a century later. The interior is marked by an Altar of the nativity in sculptured wood, decorated with a retable by Hans Klocker. The charming little cloister has elegant arches decorated in frescoes from the Giotto school.

Italian Paper

MarcoItaly — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:25:15 +0000

Paper was not invented by the Italians, but by the Orientals, but its manufacture was greatly developed and improved by them and furnished an extremely important adjuvent for the art of printing. Fabriano of Anoona made excellent paper early in the fourteenth century and the extant manuscripts on Italian paper from that period excite admiration for its good quality even in our day. Most of the North Italian cities took up the manufacture of paper about this time and their product became famous all over Europe. It was they who developed the making of rag paper and also linen paper. About the middle of the fourteenth century the use of paper for all literary purposes became well established in Italy and gradually spread all over Europe.

What needs to be well recognized, however, is the fact that Italy’s inventions were not limited in any way to merely material things. There are many inventions which represent shortcuts of various kinds for the accomplishment of mental processes and in facilities of this kind the practical genius of the Italians has been particularly fruitful. It was they who invented the various processes in arithmetic that have so simplified calculations. It is to them also that we owe as is made clear in the chapters on Mathematics and Astronomy the algebraic solutions of equations of various kinds that had seemed impossible or could be done only by long time taking guess-work before the Italian mind ordered them.

Some idea of Italian practical genius

MarcoItaly — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:03:15 +0000

We owe to Italy the first books in Greek and Hebrew types. The first complete fonts of Greek types were used in Rome in 1465 and in Venice in 1472, as quotations in Latin text. The first book in Greek was printed in Milan in 1476. Before Aldus first book in Greek (1495), thirty-four Greek books had appeared in Italy. Aldus gave us the cursive model of Greek types that has generally prevailed until our time; prior to his types the Greek models were crude. The first books in Hebrew appeared in Italy in 1475. Almost needless to say these represent inventions in the making of types which were to influence deeply all the after time.

Some idea of Italian practical genius in printing may be obtained from the fact that they invented paragraphing in print as we now have it, introduced pagination, invented capital letters, first arranged punctuation and added all those features which make the modern printed book so much more easy to understand than the old manuscripts or even the first books that were printed. To them too we owe the title page with the information that it now conveys at a glance and many other features that are real discoveries.

Italy has a lot more history to discover on location, and one of best ways to do it is touring with your own private driver-guide.

Italian marine and printing

MarcoItaly — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:34:16 +0000

Although the Italians are not usually associated with naval development some of the most important evolutions in naval vessels have been suggested from Italy. In the second part of 19th century they made the first very large iron clads of the Dandolo type. Cuniberti conceived and designed the battle cruiser type with unit calibre guns in the main battery and with subsidiary batteries and high speed. It was he who also suggested the further development of this into the “dreadnought” and actually went to England with the permission of the Italian government to direct in building the first one of these vessels that was laid down some fifteen years ago.

Italy must yield to Germany’s claim for priority in the invention of printing, but while the Germans invented, no nation did so much as Italy for the diffusion of printing, for the development of the art, it very soon became in their hands and for the encouragement of every detail of fine bookmaking that came with it. Above all Italy was the fruitful mother of inventions that made the printing art of immensely greater value to mankind than it was as it came from the hands of the original German inventors. Henry Louis Bullen, the curator of a museum of typography, said in 1914:

“From 1465 to 1501 thirty-five years printing was established in seventy-three Italian cities. Each printer had to make his own presses and types and cases and other appliances; there were no manufacturers or merchants making or selling these necessaries. Sixteen hundred and eighty (1,680) distinct type-faces have been identified as the product of the Italian printers in that brief period, including the most beautiful Roman and Text types ever used, and the first Italic. Was ever a greater boon in the printing industry? Was ever an art more eagerly adopted? Printers outside of Germany have been influenced more by the early Italian workmanship than by the German. Every printer or typefounder among us is the debtor of the earlier Italian printers, none the less so if unconscious of the obligation and ignorant of the benefactors.”

Stradivarius and electrical instruments

MarcoItaly — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:09:25 +0000

As might well be expected from what they accomplished for music in other ways the inventions of Italians in musical instruments are many and various and most important. The violin in the form in which we have it comes entirely from their hands and it is besides to Italian makers that we owe the perfection of these instruments. The violins of Guarnieri and above all of Stradivari have never been excelled. Indeed a Stradivarius remains a most precious treasure at the present day, two and a half centuries after its manufacture, not because of its antiquity, but for its marvelous perfection of tone. In the piano the most important mechanical device is the hammer action which changed the old spinet into the modern piano.

Father Beccaria was the first to invent a series of electrical instruments that demonstrated how well the energy might be applied. Priestley, the English discoverer of oxygen, in his History of Electricity has praised Beccaria’s ingenuity and has described some of these rather striking instruments. Galvani demonstrated Galvanism and opened up a whole new vista in science. Volta invented the Voltaic pile, the first continuous source of electricity that men ever had and for that reason some times spoken of as a greater invention than the steam engine. In the light of modern developments in electricity in the mechanical world, this expression now seems to have much more truth than when it was originally uttered. Volta also invented the gold leaf electroscope and a number of very ingenious instruments for the demonstration of certain physical phenomena. Nobili invented the thermopile and the thermo-electroscope, while at the end of the nineteenth century the Italian Marconi had the practical inventive genius to bring together a series of discoveries that had been made by others and combine them in such a way as to make wireless telegraphy with its wonders possible.

Barack Obama Will Become U.S. President

R Adviser — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:32:08 +0000

Definitive Best-Relationship-Advice on Barack Obama becoming U. S. President

Today is Wednesday, February 6, 2008, the day after the Super Tuesday — the single biggest U. S. presidential primary day.

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Barack Obama will not only prevail the presidential primaries of the U. S. Democratic Party but also advance to enthrone to the White House becoming the forty-fourth President of the United States. He is making history in the presidency of the United States of America – the first non-white ethnic President of the World’s Super Power. What “An American Dream!”

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A visit to Raphael of Urbino in Italy

MarcoItaly — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:54:59 +0000

In the history of Italian art, Raphael stands alone, like Shakespeare in the history of English literature. Everywhere we recognize his forms and lines, borrowed or stolen, reproduced, varied, imitated, never improved.

Raphael of Urbino was born in Urbino, in 1483. Urbino is located in the Marche region of Italy, between Ravenna and Perugia. As you travel across Italy on your private tour, your guide, who is also an art historian, will point out various points of interest in relation to Raphael, and several works by him.

Nowadays, the pretty town of Urbino is mainly visited for its Ducal Palace. This masterpiece of balance and taste was built for Duke Federico by architect Luciano Laurana and Francesco di Giorgio Martini from Siena. It offers a superb panoramic view to the west of the old town, while to the east it has a harsh yet majestic appearance. The courtyard is a model of Renaissance harmony. On the ground floor is an archaeological museum, a library for the Duke and the palace cellars.

A few steps from the Palace, the sanctuaries of San Giovanni Battista and San Giuseppe, dating back to the 14th century, contain interesting frescoes by Salimbeni recalling the life of St John the Baptist. The second, from the 16th century, has a huge statue of St Joseph painted in grisaille, four large canvases by Carlo Roncalli and an attractive stucco crib by Federico Brandani (1522-1575).

Raphael’s family house is, in fact, a museum-shrine of lesser interest. Here are the stages of his life:

1483: Raphael is born on April 6 in Urbino, in Umbria, Italy. His father is a painter and official poet of the court of Frederico Montefeltre, one of the most famous princes of the Renaissance in Italy. Urbino is a famous artistic area at the dawn of 16th century. His capacities of assimilation, imitation and his skills make Raphael an artist exceptionally gifted.

1494: Death of Raphael’s father, three years after his wife. Raphael is only eleven years old. The teaching received by the young boy remains extremely unclear. Many historians estimate that he was the pupil of Perugino, in Perugia, probably about 1499-1500.

1500: At seventeen years of age, Raphael is already a maestro. That gives him the right to have a workshop, assistants and pupils. He paints for the church Sant’ Agostino de Città di Castello. He carries out this work with the assistance of a former assistant of Giovanni Santi.

1501-1503: Raphael receives an order from the abbess of the clarisses of Monteluce, “the Crowning of the Virgin”.

1504: Raphael settles in the Tuscan city Florence. The Florentine republic has just appointed Michel-Angel (1475-1564) and Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). Raphael will benefit from their influence. Da Vinci receives him in its workshop. He discovers there the masterpieces of the florentine Renaissance. He carries out a series of Virgins and Madonnas. The Sienan banker Agostino Chigi orders from Raphael. He also works for Urbino, Perugino, and Perugia.

1508: The Pope appoints Raphael as an official painter of the pontifical court. He is given the decoration of the Vatican apartments. Raphael undertakes architectural and archaeological tasks on behalf of the papacy. He often meets Michelangelo who works on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

1514: Raphael becomes architect in chief of Saint-Peter’s basilica. His workshop leaves many masterpieces: frescoes, paintings, official orders and particular orders follow one another.

1515: Raphael is in charge of the conservation of the ancient monuments of Rome.

1517: Raphael receives the order of “Transfiguration”. 1519: He carries out the famous portrait of Margherita Luti, or Fornarina (1519) his mistress. He plans to transport an obelisk to Saint-Peter’s square.

1520: He dies the day of his birthday on April 6, Good Friday, at the age of 37 years of “too much love” according to some, of malaria according to others. His body is exposed at the Vatican, under the Transfiguration, before being transported to the Pantheon. His life remains wrapped of mystery. The artist is famous for his gracious and courteous character, his capacity of seduction and the excellence of his artistic creations.

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Private tours in Italy are the new trend

MarcoItaly — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:36:54 +0000

A research undertaken by tour operator A La Carte Italy Tours studies travel patterns to Italy. That luxury tour company offers chauffeured excursions across all areas of Italy.

Americans travel gladly. How does their travel behavior look? We like traveling on our continent. We are actually a well-traveled people. Americans are always gladly seen guests. And they are popular because of their humor and probably because of their potential. And our preferred destination out of America is Italy.

In order to be able to assess the international travel market, one must differentiate between three categories: mass travel, then the individual tourists, who are independent with a car, or the luxury-seeking tourists.

Those who drive their rental car individually visit particularly Italy and Croatia. The two countries still rank among the usually-visited destinations. Italy has the preference among our journeys abroad.

However if so-called package tours are booked out and crowded, Italy offers so much more with a private driver, guide and limousine. The numbers of the important tour operators underline the new trends.

That leads to a new trend with package tours and component journeys. More than one third of all tours last between 13 and 15 days; another third between five and eight days. The portion of those who can go more than 22 days on vacation, is small.

Italian Art Achievements

MarcoItaly — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:41:15 +0000

Nearly all the accessories of the modern theatre were invented by the Italians. In the chapter on architecture the story is told in some detail. The Venetians first constructed the theatre with two tiers of boxes arranged circularly round a pit sloping backwards as at present and Pontana, a generation later, invented the horseshoe form. Baldassare Peruzzi at Rome had invented the painted moveable scenes and then added the recessed stage with the frame around it which makes the representation a picture. A great many stage effects were introduced by the Italians, storms and wind and rain and snow, and even a very lifelike earthquake being represented before the end of the fifteenth century. Nearly all of the picturesque elements in theatricals come from Italian sources. They solved the problems of how to have as large a number as possible in a theatre to hear the human voice and see the human countenance and yet seat them in reasonable comfort. La Scala at Milan, built by Piermarini over 200 years ago, is thought by some authorities to be the best made theatre in existence.

Most people know that we are indebted for a great many of the developments in music to the Italians, yet few realize how many epoch-making inventions and discoveries relating to music come from Italy. The scale was invented down there and almost needless to say this represented a cardinal discovery for the evolution of music. Plain chant is of Italian origin and literally thousands upon thousands of melodies of all kinds, that is successions of single notes that for some reason not easy to understand appealed to the human ear have been there arranged. Harmony and counter point were developed in Italy, oratorio and opera were in vented, comic opera and musical comedy received their development and opera houses suitable for the production of these various kinds of musical dramas constructed. Musical instruments were improved, the orchestra received its evolution until there is scarcely a department of music of any kind in which Italians are not the most significant pioneers.