Post 6: International Music Score Library Project

The site I choosed names "IMSLP", that means "International Music Score Library Project" (https://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page). This site is a very big library that provide us almost  scores from almost every composer, so it's a very important tool for musicians and music students. Also, the site provides some historical recordings, musicological information and orders the music by date. Something that I like so much is to see if the piece of work that I look for belongs to a bigger work or to know something about its context.

This site was created by Edward W. Guo in 2006, and since there, it has became a very useful tool for musicians. I would recommend it to allo kind of  people who need music scores. When you find the music piece you’re looking for, you usually have many options of scores, depending on the year, editor, scan quality. Evenly, you can download antiques manuscrips from the works, like Bach, Beethoveen, Debussy, etcetera. So, if you need scores, I totally recomend you this site.

Here's an example: the famous Bach's cello prelude (the "song of spaghetti") , written by his wife, Ana Magdalena, scanned and uploaded to IMSLP.

Music for ours brains

 

I’m totally convinced that music is a natural process for every people. I think that our brains are made for music, to understand and communicate with it. About I know, music is like a gym for us. With music you can trains your listening, attention, execution, mathematics, theory, view meanwhile you are communicating with other people, with yourself and with your practice (instrument, voice, composition, etc.).

A friend always said: “the music can connect us with our best version”. I think that when we put our most authentic love and energy in a discipline we all can reach our best version. I hope make it through the music.

So, as I study composition, I hope that in present and future the music that I compose, the instruments that I play and the classes that I make, could approach other people to this vital experience.

Spaghetti with basil pesto

 One of my favorite food are spaghetti with basil pesto. It consists in a portion of spaghetti "al dente" with a portion of basil pesto and if you want, you can add salted mushroms and also, if you want, a simple tomato sauce with fried tomatos. Finally, You can add some grated parmesano cheese.

Basil pesto is a preparation where You mix: basil leaves, olive oil, garlic, nuts, pepper and salt. 

I like it so much because it has a delicious flavor and it's very easy to prepare it. Also it has an special green color.

I think that in a reasonable amount it's very good, because it has many fresh and healthly ingredients, but it can have a big amount of calories. However, it's a delicious food.

My favourite piece of technology

 I think that the most usefull piece of tecnology that I have is my Smartphone. I have the actual Smartphone since 2 years ago. It’s important for me because I can easily see my messages from different apps, check my mail. A function that I really like is to check and organize my calendar and also can mantain contact with Friends and family in other cities or places. I used it everyday, many times at day, sometimes I think it’s too much, but there I have a lot of information. Also I can take pictures, video and sound. It’s not the best resolution, but I think it is very useful. Today, I have my Smartphone because it stayed in the car of my roomate. It’s strange not to have it.

Post 2

 When I was a kid, first, I wanted to be a fireman. I think many kids want it. Also, my father is a music teacher and plays classical guitar, so since I was a kid, I always listened to music in my home and my father teached me. When I finished the school, actually, I didn’t know what to do. In my options, I had kinesiology, music teacher, play an instrument, nursing, medicin, etc. Finally, I decided kinesiology, because I thought that money and work could be very hard as musician. What I didn’t know is that kinesiology would be similar or worst. So, two years later, I had the possibility and I began to study music. My experience has been god, sometimes I think it’s very long, but I think I’m happier now!

Daniel Bustos was born in Concepción on october's 1992. He lived in Hualpén (near of Concepción) with parents, sister and brother. He studied in Instituto de Humanidades in Concepción. His father was music teacher, and learned him music since he was a kid. At 12 years old, Daniel began to study violin.

In 2011, he started to study Kinesiología at Universidad de Concepción. After graduating, he worked one year in Concepción making exercises for workers in an enterprise. Meanwhile, he played music with some groups and began to compose music arrangements for choirs.

Because of that, he went to live to Santiago de Chile to study music composition in 2017. At present, he lives in Santiago with a friend, he continues learning music, making music classes and composing.

 Hi, my name is Daniel and this is my blog for my english class. I study musical composition in Santiago, at Universidad de Chile. I'm from Concepción. I like cooking, to play piano and guitar and animals. In Concepción I have a dog called Saki. 

I like this city but I don't where is. This pic was on the pc.