Let this link be a starter. I've never heard about her untill today. Why is it that history don't speak much of women? Even nowadays some ppl make boundries between women and man. I've experienced it lately. Have you?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia

A moment for our athlets in Vancouver. One bronze by Petra Majdic and two silver by Tina Maze. We'll see what happens today ... :)

www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-photos/tina-maze-%28slovenia%29----alpine-skiing-%28ladies-giant-slalom%29_293448DQ.html

olympic-photos/petra-majdic-of-slovenia--cross-country-skiing_282844wJ.html

switzerland-because i feel like it's my second home-i love the mountains and the landscape. when i'm old :)

Firstly i would make sure our house would be finished properly, our corn-rack would be renovated, so it goes to our 25 year old Golf, and then i would probably go buy a new piano, go to a trip and buy a big supply of music sheet notes and blank papers, music stufff i need. Then i would donate money to all the poor and charities and all in need. Well, that's about it :)

It depends. You can be a great world-class artist, but if you don't have "any brain" than it's nothing (at least to me), except if you feel like it's enough to be succesfull and famous; and if you're intellectual genius, but you're not handy and resourcefull enough you can't even "succeed with all your brain you have. I think the best would be sth in between. You have to be intelectuall and smart enough either you want to be an artist or genius (meaning you're a genius it doesn't mean you're intellectual and cultured in a general way-you have to know more than just your field of knowledge-same goes to world-class artist).

Music.

Not yet, but i'm currently in that process, thinking of doing that, but i'm not sure yet. I'll always think of her in a good way, although she did some pretty ugly things to me in the past year, than saying she thinks we couldn't be friends, now she wants to be friends back ... 
I think that ppl always stay in your heart especially if you've known them for ages (since your childhood). But braking friendship isn't easy. I know i would be better withouth her, but it's all the good memories etc. that make the decision hard. Will i regret it? Still thinking about it ... :(

I just love this sport! wish i could have a chance to play it at least once! :)

does shake count for a snack? otherwise i love nuts and oranges and frutabela bar :))

no

isn't she/he cute? :)))

yes :) time for yourself is important. most of them do, except for some "special" ppl who seem not to understand anything ... ;)

not being puctual, on time, always late. i've been fighting it for my whole life and then i realised that it's a part of who i am. ppl around me are used to it and to those who don't understand it  i always "defend myself" with this quote: "Punctuality is the virtue of the bored." (E. Waugh)

 

Because of abnormal "fallage" of snow this year, and especially of today's extra, i had to wait half an hour to go to Ljubljana and and hour and a half to take a train back home. Sometimes this things happen for a reason. I met an interesting person :) I must say that enjoyed every second in the waiting of a train :)

Piece of paper and a pencil :)

I think the education prepared me well and i've got loads of open options for my career, but i've never stopped wondering if it's 100% right decision i've made, that's why i decided to study sth else in paralel of what i'm studying now, and so far-i love it! :)

In my country we have a special celebration on 12th the March and we call it "Gregorjevo" when birds start to sing and fall in love. At that time we gather near the river/lake and drop a wooden plate with a candle on the water as a symbol of hope and arrival of warm spring time and we tell our beloved ones that we love and care for them. It's kind of non commercialized kind of Valentines day and it exists here for ages. That's why i prefer this holiday instead of Valentines :)

Since i'm studying music i decided why not to write down what i know about it so far. So, here it goes.

If you don't agree with me, then i urge you to write what you think and tell me your opinion or correct me, if i'm wrong.

Part I

What is music, actually? Music is a creation, which stays as sth new, it's what a human being makes a their, by him/herself. So bird singing, a car's noise etc. is not defined as a music. More precisely, music is a timely settled sequence of strengthened or at least quite defined tones.

 

Music has existed for approximately 600 000 years.

 

             I.      MUSIC OF THE PRIMITIVE/FIRST PEOPLE

How do we know how the first people lived? Well, we  can take the aborigines and indians etc. as an example. These tribes lived separated from modern civilisations for a long time, so we can make comparisons between them and the first people and that's the only way we can imagine how music sounded at the beginning.

Music meant sth powerfull and magical to them. With music they were in touch and they connected themselves with divine powers above them.

Some characteristics of their music:

a.    a simple rhythm- reminds us of the rhythm of walking (more complicated rhythms are typical only for Africans, who have a really great sense for it)

b.    short, endlessly repeating motives

c.    narrow extend of melodics (we know five types of it):

§  fanfare type (sang in thirds)- known from New Guinea

§  pentatonic type (is without tonal centre)

§  resembling-steps type – known from American Indians

§  jumping type- known from Mongoles à also: Tibetans- bifonal singing (one person sings so, that two voices are heard)

§  garland type- from Middle East

4. unison (it's possible polyphone singing, but rarely)
5. music is sang by everybody, it is the quality of all!!, everybody takes part in singinig

 

the groups of instruments: percussions, string instruments (hunting bow) and wind instruments (simple flute, animal-hunting horn, didgeridoo-aboriginal people)

 

 

After these first groups of people, eho created music, we can talk about the music of the 1st civilisations. With that we refer to music from China, Japan, Palestine, Arabia, Mesopotamia, India, Egypt, Greece and Rome.

 

But first, let's find out sth about polyphonic in non-European music, with that we mean in Asia, India, Africa, Caucasus …

What is POLYPHONY? It's a musical performance in which more voices (at least 2) sing the same or different melody in interval spacing, which is not sang in an octave or unison.

We know more ways, such as:

§  singing in parallel intervals (2,3,4,5…)

§  intervals replaced with other intervals … and from that we can get. A CANON- mutual imitation of the melody

§  Bordune- the tone, which is repeating constantly till the end of a song

§  free/independent polyphonyà Ostinato-rhythmical-melodical pattern, which is constantly repeating, above the melody

§  Heterophony- everybody in the group with instruments plays the same, but we hear differently, because the instruments are differently harmonized