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RHYTHM IN MUSIC (Continued)

Creative Music Composing
Self-Teaching Manual

Creative Music Composing

Self-Teaching Manual

By Paul Rodricks

Have you ever felt the urge to write your own songs?

To compose your own lyrics and melody?

Are you a lyricist wishing to set music to your lyrics?

Or a music composer desirous of writing the lyrics to

your music? Or a music lover and hobbyist wondering

how songs are crafted?

If so, Creative Music Composing

is just the right practical

self-teaching manual for you. Because Songwriting has

never been made so easy and simple.

The Manual covers all the music aspects of Writing Melodies– melody notes, tonality of scales and harmony in chord progressions and rhythm. You begin from learning to create simple melodies to composing complete performing versions of songs by using the Digital Numbering System, the Solfeggio (do-re-mi) and ABCDEFG notation methods.

Become a successful Songwriter. Compose your

own Lyrics and Music to styles such as Pop, Rock,

Blues, Country, R&B, Jazz, Gospel and others.

Read here the Preview of the Section 3 from Creative Music Composing by Paul Rodricks:

Section 3

“Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you’ll find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

RHYTHM IN MUSIC (Continued)

Examples of changing from Simple to Compound Time.

Fig. 26 - Changing Simple to Compound Time

In 6/8 time signature, the eight note (half of the common quarter note) receives one beat and there are six beats to a measure.

Fig. 27 - The 6/8 Time Signature. The number below the note indicates the number of beats per note.

Beats: 3 3 1 1 1 2 1 6

Music Note Values & Rhythm

Fig. 28 – Rhythmic Divisions of the Music Notes:

We shall now go into a detailed study of the rhythmic values of the musical notes.

You can see from the three examples of different Time Signatures shown below {Figs.28(a) 29, 29(a) & 29(b), the changing rhythmic values of the common musical note against the corresponding number of beats each receives for the duration of the note, including a quarter-note rest period in the fourth bar of the second example (Fig. 29(a)}:

Fig.28(a) - Illustrating the Common Notes Timing:

Fig. 28(a) – Continued

Illustrating the Common Notes Timing:

Figs. 29, 29(a) and 29(b) – Specific Note Duration Values in Common Time Signatures:

Fig. 29

Fig. 29 - continued

Fig. 29(a)

Fig. 29(b)

To be continued...

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SATAN – The Personification of Evil (Continued)

Christian Mysteries - Unveiled

Article: SATAN –
The Personification of Evil

(Continued...)

The Hebrew root “stn” means to oppose, obstruct. Later as Hebrew stories developed, the Satan took on a supernatural character, sent by God to obstruct human activity. Satan does not act, however, of his own accord. Elsewhere Satan is stirred to account for division within same people: “The Satan stood up against Israel, and incited David to number the people” (1 Chron. 21:1).

In due course, as radical opposition to Jews increased, they began to apply the negative characteristics of their opponents to Satan. This process maligned the angelic figure of Satan, to a far more evil character. The Jewish apostates and opponents were denounced as being seduced by the evil powers under many names such as, Satan, Beelzebub, Semihazah, Azazel, Belial, Prince of Darkness and so on.

Here I have to make one important comment and, that is, both Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 2 8:1 3 – 15 should not be misunderstood for the fall of Satan and his angels. If read in proper context, the writings the prophets speak is about the earthly kings - King of Babylon and King of Tyre respectively and not any supernatural beings.

By the time of the new Testament canons, Satan had become God’s antagonist - enemy and contender. Throughout the scriptures, Satan is given an independent entity from God and comes across as the very personification of evil.

In Matthew 4, Satan personally tempts Jesus. All dispossessed demon-spirits announce the divinity of Jesus and Revelation 12:9 mentions him by another name namely, the serpent now as the Devil and Satan who has deceived the whole world.

Satan also had counterparts in the Egyptian Set, in Greece as Typhon and Sumerian Enki, but not always as a personification of evil.

The known primary source for depicting the Devil as “evil” comes from Zoroaster’s teachings of the concept of two co-equal powers (good and evil) existing from the beginning. And that they would continue to battle till the end of the world.

Many concepts from Zoroastrianism were adopted into Judaism by the Jewish priests during their captivity in Persia (538 BCE) and upon return to Judea (330 BCE).

What had God to say? The answer can be rather unexpected. It is God who deliberately sends out a lying spirit:

"And there came forth a spirit and stood before the Lord and said … I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And be said… go forth and do so." (1 Kings 22:21)

Again, God declares that he is the creator of evil as well: “I make peace, and create evil, I the Lord do all these things.” Isaiah 45:7, Prophet Amos says that whenever evil occurs it is the Lord’s handiwork: “Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it? Amos 3:6.

In the New Testament, there are two schools of thought. It appears that God does the work of the devil to tempt those who cannot be saved, for Paul, in his disputed Epistle 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12, states: ”God shall send them a strong delusion, that they shall believe a lie; that all might be damned who believe not the truth.” But Apostle James in his epistle, speaks differently:” Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted of evil, neither tempteth he any man."

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CIA Undercover Agent

MOHAMMED AL-ABBASI

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Islamic Jihadi – Suicide Bomber

SAMANTHA CLARKE

Attorney in the NYC D.A.’s Office, Lady friend of Jonathan Bradley

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NBA Celebrity & Rape Suspect

JOANNE ROSS

Abandoned and abused as a child, Tracking down her biological parents.

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CLAIRE O’NEAL

Femme fatale MI6 field agent, Jon’s one-time lover.

SAMPLING

CHAPTER ONE

OCTOBER - 2006

Siege & Hostage Crisis

South East Bronx Synagogue, NYC

Saturday : Mid-Morning

There was the air of dread and uncertainty all around the Synagogue complex. Adding to this menacing environment was the inclement weather.

The sunny hours of the morning were slowly giving way to an overcast sky, the dark hovering clouds threatening to let down a flood of rain showers any time before the onset of the afternoon.

However, the climate phenomenon was the least of Jonathan Bradley’s concerns.

Since arriving at the scene, his mind was totally preoccupied trying to cope up with the magnitude of the life-threatening spectacle, if it were allowed to unfold, should he and the law enforcement agencies fail to contain the tragedy in taking place. Hundreds would lose their lives; men, women and children, whose only fault was to participate in the joyous centenary celebrations of the Bronx Synagogue built by their ancestors being the first Jewish settlers in this part of the great city.

Excepting a few initial suspicions, neither Jon nor any of his FBI personnel knew for certain what had happened, and the extent of the real situation behind the closed doors of the Bronx Synagogue.

Half-an-hour earlier, the public had reported an explosion outside the complex building. The NYPD and the FBI from Jonathan’s Counter-terrorism Unit had responded to the dispatcher’s call. They were now waiting for the NYPD Mobile Squad and the Bomb Squad to arrive.

As his underlying concerns grew with every minute, Jonathan was in reality, scouting the Synagogue complex from the two exterior courtyards, accompanied by his SSA - Senior Special Agent, Allan Banks. William King, his other immediate colleague, SA - Special Agent, was around talking to the uniform police officers, who had first arrived at the scene and would then go about canvassing for possible witnesses.

Outside the wrought-iron gate and the fencing along the front of the complex property, the news vans, journalists and reporters jostled with the growing spectators on the adjoining pavement.

Ironically, the day happened to his last working day with the FBI before being re-assigned to the CIA, his former employers.

Jonathan was video-filming on his cellphone the exteriors of the complex when he noticed at least two hidden CCTV cameras on either side of the Synagogue main structure.

The over hundred years old Synagogue building had been just given an extensive make-over, while retaining its original blueprint. It was a large one-story sprawling complex of two adjoining buildings, the main Synagogue separated by an open space from the one behind it.

It appeared that everyone concerned with the management of the Synagogue complex was now inside the assembly hall attending the centenary services. There was no one available who they could talk to.

His eyes lingered on the main entrance that ran the length of the front façade; its huge wooden arch door and the two narrow side doors, their arches and sides separated with plaques of Jewish art rose stained-glass. At both the far-ends were two long recessed windows with a portico each and fronted with stain-glass.

Jonathan visualized that behind the main entrance; there’d be a porch and another door opening directly into the main aisle of the assembly hall.

He and Allan stood at some distance from the main entrance trying to determine the situation inside. They could see nor hear anything. But, he guessed that those inside would have noticed the ongoing activity outside through the CCTV cameras.

Someone was controlling the crowd inside the Synagogue very efficiently. To have done that, he would have succeeded in creating fear and terror among the hostages. How many of them were involved in high jacking the Bronx Synagogue? How were they armed?

With hundreds of people held hostage, they wouldn’t manage to control them indefinitely. Children, elderly and ailing men and women would be difficult to keep down. People react after a time. Was there no security or even off-duty military or law enforcement personnel among the hostages? They would have reacted unless the threat was greater than they could handle. Perhaps, they were biding their time.

And what could mean a greater threat than suicide bombers, for whom death was holy martyrdom and the more people they killed, greater their afterlife reward.