Calista's Journal

Name                    :  Calista Safrina Rahma   Student Number   :  19202241100                                                                                                                                        Listening Diary 5.1 Website Audio Name Level/other information https://youtu.be/eIho2S0ZahI How to speak so that people want to listen – Julian Treasure Summary: What was the listening selection about?  The speaker tells us about ways to make people listen to us when we speak. Also he tells us about things we should avoid during conversations. .                                                      Vocabularies/language expressions you learnt 1.        Timbre 2.        Prosody 3.        Impart Activities: What did you do? What scores did you get? I’m trying to practice and apply this techniques in my daily life. For example when I’m ta

History of Music Pre-Renaissance Music: The Evolution of Instruments and Theory The earliest forms of music were probably drum-based, percussion instruments being the most readily available at the time (i.e. rocks, sticks). These simplest of simple instruments are thought to have been used in religious ceremonies as representations of animals. There was no notation or writing of this kind of "music" and its sounds can only be extrapolated from the music of (South) American Indians and African natives who still adhere to some of the ancient religious practices. Greece was the root of all Classical art, so it's no coincidence that Classical music is rooted in Grecian innovations. In 600 BCE, famed mathematician Pythagorus dissected music as a science and developed the keystone of modern music: the octave scale. The importance of this event is obvious. Music was a passion of the Greeks. With their surplus of leisure time (thanks to slave labor) they were able