Music Series: Instruments of the Orchestra

In Nia we have a system called the 8BC system which helps us to decode songs to deepen our relationship with music.

During Helen Terry’s ONLINE “Music Series” today we began to look at “symbol and sound”. Exploring how we can track/identify the silence and sound of individual instruments in the music.

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Here’s a fabulous demonstration of the different instruments of the orchestra.

We hope you enjoy the clip and invite you to play:

  1. Identify the different sounds and how they come together and

  2. enjoy these fabulous vibrations in your Nia classes and trainings.

We can develop more intimacy (the ability to pay attention to details at a deeper level) by isolating separate sounds in the music, focusing our mind to notice and track the instruments, and learn how they (as individual sounds) contribute to the whole (the song). In Nia we call this process “isolating to integrate”.

Here’s more wonderful examples of The Orchestra, Symbol and Sound and even the “choreography” of the conductor.