New Age Songs

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What an amazing song this is. I love how it starts out slow and inches along and then around 1: Tim Janis has a ton of great songs and this is my favorite. The flute with the piano is just an amazing mix and you can really feel this one. I discovered this song while researching how to write trance music.

I came across this guy's videos and eventually checked out his music. He is mostly a trance musician but after you listen to this song I'm sure you will agree he is actually an extremely gifted song writer who writes beautiful melodies. I'm not really sure if this song goes to a movie or what, but ever since I first heard it I've been left in awe. This is another amazing song. You knew this song was going to be on here and here it is.

Just turn up the speakers, sit back and listen to it unfold yet again. I'm not sure how well known Brian Crain is, but this song shows that he is one of the best in the world. This song has such a beautiful melody with great flow and emotion. Please join me as I drift away to this gem yet again. Kelly Andrew is really, really under-rated.

He writes a wide range of music and when it comes to piano this is my favorite piece of his. The chorus to this song is just amazing and builds on top of itself. So much emotion flows through this.

This song is from the movie Spirited Away and it is absolutely amazing. Joe Hisaishi put together such a unique sounding and beautiful piece here. I love the part at 1: So simple and so powerful. This is the only other video game song on the list and it is most certainly deserving. Nobuo Uematsu brings so much emotion and passion with his music. I don't know what it is about this song, but the way the notes are put together makes it one of the most beautiful melodies in the world. I've listened to this song for years and every time I listen to it it just hits me hard.

The part at 0: One of the best melodies ever created!

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This is one of the best piano songs I have ever hard. Back in the day a friend of mine burned this on a CD for me and I used to listen to it over and over again. He didn't know who it was and I never knew who it was until one day I came across it on Pandora and went crazy. I love how David Lanz explains this song as like a music box that slowly builds on top of itself and gains momentum.

That is exactly the vibe I get from this song and it is beautiful. And of course, the 1 spot belongs to Paul Spaeth. He wrote this song when he was like 14 and I have been listening to it ever since. I even got the sheet music for this song and learned it on piano because it is just that good. This song has one of the best melodies I have ever heard and I love the way the piano and violin play off each other. And of course the chorus that kicks in at 1: It really is hard to top this when it comes to solo piano. This guy is a musical genius and truly gifted. Well done Paul Spaeth and thank you for a life changing piece!

I am an entrepreneur at heart. Throughout my whole life I have enjoyed building real businesses by solving real problems. Business is life itself. My goal with businesses is to help move the human Most of these suck. Listen to O'Chancey they have good songs there best one to me is Atlantis and Mayflower. This is perfect and this is great for piano experts. I will include this on my list of songs to play in the next events.

Check out Greg Maroney.

He has done a lot of albums over the years with some really good and memorable solo piano pieces. And he has published sheet music for many of his albums if you want to learn to play his music.

New-age music

Great list, thanks for making it! I wanted to share my own solo piano compositions: New-age music is a genre of music intended to create artistic inspiration , relaxation , and optimism. It is used by listeners for yoga , massage , meditation , [1] reading as a method of stress management [2] to bring about a state of ecstasy rather than trance , [3] [4] or to create a peaceful atmosphere in their home or other environments, and is associated with environmentalism and New Age spirituality.

New-age music includes both acoustic forms, featuring instruments such as flutes , piano , acoustic guitar and a wide variety of non-Western acoustic instruments , and electronic forms, frequently relying on sustained synth pads or long sequencer -based runs. Vocal arrangements were initially rare in the genre, but as it has evolved vocals have become more common, especially those featuring Native American -, Sanskrit -, or Tibetan -influenced chants, or lyrics based on mythology such as Celtic legends.

There is no exact definition of new-age music. New-age music was influenced by a wide range of artists from a variety of genres. Tony Scott 's Music for Zen Meditation is considered to be the first new-age recording. New-age music is defined more by the use and effect or feeling it produces rather than the instruments and genre used in its creation; [10] it may be acoustic, electronic, or a mixture of both. New-age artists range from solo or ensemble performances using classical-music instruments ranging from the piano, acoustic guitar, flute or harp to electronic musical instruments , or from Eastern instruments such as the sitar , tabla , and tamboura.

There is also a significant overlap of sectors of new-age music with ambient music , classical music , jazz , electronica , world music , chillout , space music , pop music and others. Stephen Hill , founder of the Hearts of Space in , considers that "many of the artists are very sincerely and fully committed to New Age ideas and ways of life". However, it is often noted that "New-age music" is a mere popular designation which successfully sells records. Gordon Melton argued it does not refer to a specific genre of music, but to music which is used in therapeutic or other new-age purposes.

She commented that "a lot of New Age music is schlock" and how due to records sales everyone with a home studio put in some sounds of crickets, oceans, or rivers, as a guarantee of sales. Thus under the umbrella term , some consider that the Mike Oldfield 's progressive rock album Tubular Bells became one of the first albums to be referred to under the genre description of New Age. However, many musicians and composers dismiss the labeling of their music as "New age". It's ridiculous to give a name to anything that is timeless". New-age has a negative connotation In the circles I come in contact with, people working in music, 'new-age' is almost an insult", that it refers to "very vapid, dreamy kinds of dull music Harold Budd commented how "When I hear the term 'new-age I reach for my revolver I don't think of myself as making music that is only supposed to be in the background.

It's embarrassing to inadvertently be associated with something that you know in your guts is vacuous". Vangelis considers it a style which "gave the opportunity for untalented people to make very boring music". My music can be very rhythmic, very energetic, even very ethnic".

Ron Goldstein, president of Private Music , agreed with such a standpoint, and explained that " Windham Hill was the hub of this whole thing. Because of that association, New-age has come to be perceived as this West Coast thing". However, the label managing director Sam Sutherland, argued that even founders of Windham Hill, William Ackerman and Anne Robinson, "shied away from using any idiomatic or generic term at all. It's always seemed a little synthetic", and as a company they stopped making any kind of deliberate protests to the use of the term simply because it was inappropriate.

Both Goldstein and Sutherland concluded that the tag has helped move merchandise, and that new-age music will be absorbed into the general body of pop music within a few years from The New York Times music critic Jon Pareles noted that "new-age music" absorbed other music styles in more softer form, but those same well defined styles don't need the new-age category, and that "new-age music" resembles other music because it is aimed as a marketing niche—to be a "formula show" designated for urban "ultra-consumers" as status accessory, that the Andean, Asian and African traditional music influences invoke the sense of " cosmopolitanism ", while nature in the album artwork and sound the "connection to unspoiled landscapes".

Many critics described new-age music as "pretentious Muzak ", being repetitive without sense for structure and improvisation, with avoidance of speed and percussiveness, and with scarce syncopation and most basic 4 4 meter. As described in this article, the borders of this umbrella genre are not well defined; however music retail stores will include artists in the "new-age" category even if the artists belong to different genre, and themselves use different names for their style of music.

Here are some other terms used instead of "new-age":. Kay Gardner called the original new-age music "healing music" or "women's spirituality". The term "instrumental music" or "contemporary instrumental" can include artists that do not use electronic instruments in their music, such as solo pianist David Lanz. Yanni has distinguished the music genre from the spiritual movement bearing the same name.

Chappell, which was the term by which Billboard called the new-age and world-music album charts. The concept arose with the involvement of professional musicians in the New-Age movement. Initially, it was of no interest to the musical industry, so the musicians and related staff founded their own small independent recording businesses. Sales reached significant numbers in unusual outlets such as bookstores, gift stores, health-food stores and boutiques, as well as by direct mail.

Tony Scott 's Music for Zen Meditation is considered to be the first new-age recording, [ citation needed ] but initially it was popular mostly in California, and was not sold nationally until the s.

New Age Song Highlights

Her A Rainbow Path embraced Halpern's theory of healing music from that time with women's spirituality, and she became one of the most popular new-age sacred-music artists. The most notable early work was Steven Halpern 's Spectrum Suite , the musical purpose of which was described as to "resonate specific areas of the body In the s his music work, and the theoretical book Tuning the Human Instrument , pioneered the contemporary practice of musical healing in the United States.

Between the intentional extremes of the West and East Coast are some of the most successful new-age artists, like George Winston and R. Winton's million-selling December , released by Windham Hill Records, was highly popular. During the s, his music became virtual anthems for new-age spirituality.

It was seen as an attractive business due to low recording costs. Stephen Hill founded the new-age radio show Hearts of Space in In , was picked up by NPR for syndication to affiliates nationally, [50] and year later was started a record label Hearts of Space Records. DJs stopped announcing the titles of the songs, and instead, to maintain an uninterrupted mood, listeners could call a phone number to find out what song was playing.

News breaks were also re-branded and referred to as "wave breaks".

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