Zelena's learning about things in music class that is quite diverse

 I’m going to do the music of Mongolia. I’m going to focus on their instruments and older aspects of their music. I’m going to touch a bit on throat singing and long songs. Mongolian music uses the major pentatonic scale. They use a similar system that the Chinese do. Some of their instruments were somewhat Chinese inspired, that being the Zithers. Mongolia is a contained culture and in their traditional music there is no bleed over from western musical tastes. There music tends to be very loose with the actual rules of it. They don't strictly adhere to the pentatonic scale and often wonder off a bit. I noticed that they don't play instruments together very much. Each instrument is mostly self contained.   Their throat singing is very interesting. They sing using a drone tone they produce while putting a higher melody on top. There are different ways to do this. The texture they have is very gravelly and it almost sounds like there is some vocal fry present. The often h...

 I'm interviewing my mother here.  I have the question I asked and then her response under it.  1.        What was the first genre of music you ever listened to?   The first genre of music I ever heard or remember hearing was Hispanic music and classical music.   My grandmother raised me and that is all she listened too. She would put the music on and do art every Sunday after church. 2.        Did you like it? Back then I liked it Ok. I liked the classical music the best and Vivaldi inspired me to take flute lessons as a teenager.   I like playing music more than listening to music.   My grandmother had an old pump organ that I would play as a child. This part I loved. Now I don’t care for Hispanic music, it sounds off key and is irritating to listen too. It actually gives me tension headaches.   Classical music is ok but not something I would care to listen too often.   I do ...