Orchestras   An Orchestra is a Group of people playing different musical instruments. This group is led by a person who is called a Conductor. The need for orchestras arose when composers were not able to regenerate the music they had written, to fulfil this need, they began to write the scores separately for all the instruments so that the music could be reproduced as it had been written. Once the...

Composers A person who writes music is known as a composer. Today an incredible variety of music is available, what is amazing about this feat is the fact that a music composer has only about a hundred different musical notes from which he has to create this variety. If we play the same musical note on different musical instruments then each one would produce a different sound. This probably made this...

Films The French brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiere were the first men to show a short motion picture. It was from that day that movies came into being. Motion pictures completely changed the world of entertainment. The first movies were silent and as the film was shown a pianist provided music in accompaniment based on the scenes. In 1927 the first movie with sound was shown, it was called a ‘Talkie’....

Circus The circuses as we see today came into being in the second half of the 18th century. In those days the acts were limited to trick riding but as time went by more were added and the circuses became a proper show. Initially these circuses were held indoors but eventually large tents were used to provide mobility and the circuses were able to move from town to town. Today when...

Musical Instruments Various types of instruments are used to produce music. Some of these date back to the earliest civilizations  and but are still used today, the flute and conch shell are examples. Musical instruments with strings are called string instruments, these include Guitars, Violins, Cello etc. We have a lot of instruments where sound is produced with the help of wind, these are called Woodwind instruments, like the Flute, Oboe,...

Singing & Opera During the middle ages Priests and Monks sang holy songs as they wandered preaching religion. The capability in human beings to be able to modulate their voice has inspired many song writers and composers. Many men and women can sing at very high pitches while others are capable of producing deep and rich sounds. It was in the 17th century that opera originated in Italy and spread to...

Music We express our thoughts and Feelings through music. Music is made by musicians who organise various sounds and blend rhythm, harmony and melody in a pattern which makes it pleasing to hear. It is possible that prehistoric people may have chanted sounds to make music but some of the most, ancient, musical instruments were flutes, pipes and lutes which were played by the Sumerians. Today composers write music by using...

First Aid There are medical emergencies when very quick medical help is required e.g. a person may have drowned in the swimming pool and swallowed a lot of water, in such a case immediate help is required since it would be too late by the time the doctor arrived. The rapid treatment provided, in this case by the Life-guard, which would include mouth to mouth resuscitation, is called First Aid. In...