Music can be analyzed as being composed of four basic elements, melody, harmony, rhythm, and texture. Each one of those elements can be broken down into simpler elements. For instance melody can be broken down into pitch and duration of each note.
The concepts that I wish to discuss in this blog are ...
IT was place-spotter Ian who first called my attention to it and this was reinforced by a series of advertisements and a Chillout feature as well of the same place. It was time to go.The place, Chicco de Caffe, a posh coffeeshop along Roxas Avenue corner Padre Faura (yes, ...
YOU woke up in your bed in Davao City at the start of the week, bundled down to sleep in a hotel bed in General Santos City the next day, and then tried to make friends with a really hard mattress in a new Cebu hotel the next night.In between ...
I TOOK a quick trip to Gensan two weeks back to tackle some work (I'm zipping by again soon) and got to acquaint myself with the little that I can from that very, very short trip; like Mang Gorio Bahay Kainan.Mang Gorio epitomizes the slow but steady boom of ...
WHY can't he just wake up one day and just be happy," a friend whined over a common friend who has so many angst, you can hardly get through to him without stepping on someone whom he doesn't want to talk to.But yes, sometimes, happiness is just about being happy. ...
Excerpt from my paper The Crocodile As An Important Symbol in Maguindanaon Culture. It is part of Ipat, a colorful monograph that I wrote, and is expected to be out this summer. An old shaman once said that, ...
