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• Source: The Emperor’s New Clothes Notebook
• Key: F Major
• Measures: 72
• Parts: Cello and Piano
• Duration: 2:56
• Pages: 6 Pages

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“Listening to classical music is like reading philosophy books, not everybody has to do it. Music is not for everybody.”
― Krzysztof Penderecki

There’s a weary manifesto circulating around in the world that boldly states: Listening to classical music, would make you smarter. But, it does not stop there, it continues saying; specifically when you listen music composed by Mozart. Well, I am sure we all have heard the venerate Mozart Effect theory that took the world by surprise in the 90’s. This false notion, thanks to the media, has poisoned our minds and therefore, our egos.

Making broad statements similar to the example above, can be a dangerous practice because of the deceiving power...

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• Source: The Wonders of Music Notebook
• Key: C Major
• Measures: 48
• Parts: Cello and Piano
• Duration: 3:05
• Pages: 4 Pages

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“IF the story is true, then, God should’ve made humans in the image of dogs, NOT in his own image. I reckon, it could have worked out better for all of us.“

There is a certain innocence about animals, If you look into their eyes, you’d realise that they know the secret of life. Such is the claim. But most certainly, if we talk specifically about dogs, then, I’m sure we’d agree that they can be more gracious than some people, friendlier than most mortals, and over all, better equip to pledge loyalty than all humans.

I am 52 years old, I’ve never been a proud owner of a dog before. How can I have an opinion on the matter at hand? You may wonder. Well, 4 years ago, I had the great fortune to have met...

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• Source: Approved Measures Notebook
• Key: G Major
• Measures: 61
• Parts: Cello and Piano
• Duration: 2:52
• Pages: 5 Pages

The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.
By Serge Schmemann

Hello,

Who am I?, The answer to that question is, more or less, difficult to pinpoint. Although, I have to admit, over the spam of my life time, more than once, for the sake of my own sanity, I have not been interested in knowing who I am, because, going on and on in endless circles inside my mind, or wherever my thoughts live, is not my idea of fun.

However, it is indeed, during the most difficult times, that my mind demands an answer, as if by knowing, it would help to solve, all at once, my conflicting existence; hence, it is only logical to inquire, with a sense of urgency, about myself to myself.

To live a full...

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• Source: The Wonders of Music
• Key: C Major
• Measures:
• Parts: Cello and Piano
• Duration: 2:58
• Pages: 4 Pages

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“My life is like a movie, except without Kate Blanchett"

Hello,

For more than a century, pictures in motion; or what we simply called movies had captivated audiences, and inspired artist from around the world, making it one of the most popular forms of entertainment. However, films represent more than mere recreation, in fact; film making is a complete form of art that it is to be consider the 7th in line behind dance, music, painting, poetry, also architecture and poetry

Growing up back in the 80’s, I remember “fantasizing” about being a movie director, or a cameraman, I thought that being part of the whole “behind the scenes” process of putting together the motion pictures was a prospect so exciting...

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• Source: The Emperor’s New Clothes Notebook
• Key: C Major
• Measures: 48
• Parts: Cello and Piano
• Duration: 3:09 min
• Pages: 4

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“It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.”
― Noam Chomsky

Hello,

Advertising is a wide and complex activity that has become a rotten hell, full of unscrupulous minds that make lies a new normal, for the only purpose to procured costumers to spend more money in a very convenient way.

Corporations across the world, follow the same methods and techniques. The philosopher George Santayana said:
“Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.”

However, advertising is an important tool in business; big companies spent millions just to put their bran names...

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• Source: The Emperor’s New Clothes Notebook
• Key: C Major
• Measures: 48
• Parts: Cello and Piano
• Duration: 3:40 min
• Pages: 3 Pages

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“Though there were no strong conventions, until the nineteenth century pink was certainly a very suitable color for boys.”
― Grayson Perry, The Descent of Man

There’s a lot to talk about the COLOR pink, which apparently, it is a color that people either love or hate, it brings out the good, the bad and the ugly on all of us. The color pink has become one of those dangerous puzzles that no one dares solved, and afraid of judgment, afraid of ridiculous society standards, people ignore the fact that it is just a gender-less color.

Perhaps, people are truly afraid of getting stoned by the crowd if they, decisively, contradict what wrongly has been establish. And that is:

Pink for girls
Blue for...

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• Source: Approved Measures Notebook
• Key: D minor
• Measures: 54
• Parts: Cello and Piano
• Duration: 3:11 min
• Pages: 4 Pages

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“Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We’re so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson could have easily been talking about Bach’s music when he said those words. “The show that never ends” reference is what makes me think of Bach. Now, there’s a lot written about the composer, his biographers do not have it easy, there is so much extraordinary music left behind, but very little of his personal life. So, a lot of it is pure speculation.

Music, as life itself, is similar to a first act scene that never ends; only the actors are being replaced. There are no second nor third acts. I think of it as a playlist set in an endless loop...

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• Source: The Emperor’s New Clothes Notebook
• Key: F Major/D minor
• Measures: 30
• Parts: Cello and Piano
• Duration: 3:09 min
• Pages: 5

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“The last generations’s worst fears become the next one’s B-grade entertainment.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behaviour

Eight billion humans sharing the planet earth, and everyone has a story to tell. We smile and cry, we get happy and sad, and we do not need to be in a beauty pageant to desire, desperately, world peace. The thing is, we are a unique, emotional bunch of individuals reacting, in so many different ways to the same problems. I would like to think that, perhaps, we do have more things in common than we are willing to accept.

Everyone has a story to tell, it is up to the listener to accept it as it is, or give it a judgmental interpretation. Eight billion humans, I can’t...

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• Source: The Wonder of Music Notebook
• Key: D Major / B minor
• Measures: 48
• Parts: Cello and Piano
• Duration: 2:58 min
• Pages: 4

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“Tough toenails, tiger. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.”
By Nicholas Sparks; Three weeks with my brother

When I look at my past, I smile at all my accomplishments, but I also frown upon my shortcomings, hoping they won’t get shorter. When I take a closer look at my present life, it energizes me and foreshadows, with impressive precision, what’s to come, that is, if I choose to imagine it.

But I also know that the future can be terribly uncertain, and that there is no way around to avoid life’s struggles. That is why, moving forward, the past is almost always a rotund NO, the future is an energetic YES, but the present without fail is an...

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• Source: The Wonder of Music Notebook
• Key: F Major / D minor
• Measures: 36
• Parts: Cello and Piano
• Duration: 2:25 min
• Pages: 3

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“Sometimes life surprises you in the most beautiful ways, leaving you pleasantly taken aback by its wonders".

I NEED MUSIC
We live in a world that is NOT easy to figure out, different situations can be clear and bogus, all at the same time, or so we think, depending entirely on the perspective we see it. The gigantic, colorful puzzle that is in front of us, could be very complex, and therefore, difficult to solved; this in return, could affect deeply our self esteem shredding it in a trice, compelling us to do the unthinkable.

I need music to mitigate the confusion. Music guides me, and reasons with me, whispering that everything would be ok at the end of the day. Music never disappoints...