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My birthday was last Wednesday and Giselle decided to give me a guitar for my birthday. I never knew how to play instruments in all my life and really, this is my first ever musical instrument that I own. Giselle though, is a pretty kickass guitar player and she's been playing since she was a kid so she's got a lot to teach me. I love it and I love the challenge, so far.
The theme for week 12 in the 52 in 2013 group is Something That Begins With "M"
I chose to illustrate Music by taking a picture of my Baby Taylor guitar and the sheet music of the song Cortez the Killer from Neil Young, perhaps my favourite song of his.
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Le défi thématique pour la 12e semaine du groupe 52 in 2013 est Quelque chose qui commence par M. J'ai choisi d'illustrer la musique par une photo de ma guitare Baby Taylor et d'une partition de la chanson Cortez the Killer de Neil Young, sans doute ma préférée de ce chanteur.
♪ ♫ Music / Musique : Cortez the Killer by Neil Young
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-b76yiqO1E
He came dancing across the water
With his galleons and guns
Looking for the new world
In that palace in the sun.
On the shore lay Montezuma
With his coca leaves and pearls
In his halls he often wondered
With the secrets of the worlds.
Musician at Covent Garden
Covent Garden ( /ˈkɒvənt/) is a district in London on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St. Martin's Lane and Drury Lane. It is associated with the former fruit and vegetable market in the central square, now a popular shopping and tourist site, and the Royal Opera House, which is also known as "Covent Garden". The district is divided by the main thoroughfare of Long Acre, north of which is given over to independent shops centred on Neal's Yard and Seven Dials, while the south contains the central square with its street performers and most of the elegant buildings, theatres and entertainment facilities, including the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and the London Transport Museum.
Though mainly fields until the 16th century, the area was briefly settled when it became the heart of the Anglo-Saxon trading town of Lundenwic. After the town was abandoned, part of the area was walled off by 1200 for use as arable land and orchards by Westminster Abbey, and was referred to as "the garden of the Abbey and Convent". The land, now called "the Covent Garden", was seized by Henry VIII, and granted to the Earls of Bedford in 1552. The 4th Earl commissioned Inigo Jones to build some fine houses to attract wealthy tenants. Jones designed the Italianate arcaded square along with the church of St Paul's. The design of the square was new to London, and had a significant influence on modern town planning, acting as the prototype for the laying-out of new estates as London grew.A small open-air fruit and vegetable market had developed on the south side of the fashionable square by 1654. Gradually, both the market and the surrounding area fell into disrepute, as taverns, theatres, coffee-houses and brothels opened up; the gentry moved away, and rakes, wits and playwrights moved in. By the 18th century it had become a well-known red-light district, attracting notable prostitutes. An Act of Parliament was drawn up to control the area, and Charles Fowler's neo-classical building was erected in 1830 to cover and help organise the market. The area declined as a pleasure-ground as the market grew and further buildings were added: the Floral Hall, Charter Market, and in 1904 the Jubilee Market. By the end of the 1960s traffic congestion was causing problems, and in 1974 the market relocated to the New Covent Garden Market about three miles (5 km) south-west at Nine Elms. The central building re-opened as a shopping centre in 1980, and is now a tourist location containing cafes, pubs, small shops, and a craft market called the Apple Market, along with another market held in the Jubilee Hall.
Covent Garden, with the postcode WC2, falls within the London boroughs of Westminster and Camden, and the parliamentary constituencies of Cities of London and Westminster and Holborn and St Pancras. The area has been served by the Piccadilly line at Covent Garden tube station since 1907; the journey from Leicester Square, at 300 yards, is the shortest in London.
CF Wikipedia
I decided to colour my last piece in, again with watercolour pencils: this time blue-purple. It's a bit patchworky, but I'm quite pleased with it. :@)
AND ON STRINGS...
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I find it impossible to tell you what my favourite instrument is, The moment I say Cello, I think, oh no, pain, oh no violin, nooo, LOL
But I love all of the above.
Cello, guitar, mandolin, bass, aaahhh, I feel spoiled!
I wish you a day full of beauty and thank you for your visit, Magda, (*_*)
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