Music the artform and artists
How Was Musical Notation Invented?
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- Tuesday, 08 August 2017
Imagine a piece of music. No, not the music, but the written score or sheet.
John Coltrane: Beyond the Holy Mountain
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- Tuesday, 08 August 2017
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the passing of John Coltrane, one of the true musical giants of the 20th century whose monumental legacy casts a considerable shadow across jazz and out into the wider artistic world.
A Kinshasa, la symphonie de la débrouille
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- Tuesday, 08 August 2017
En république démocratique du Congo, bastion de la rumba et des tubes de Céline Dion, le seul orchestre philharmonique d’Afrique subsaharienne parvient à faire vivre le répertoire classique depuis 1994.
The Music of Time: Angelic Choirs and Devilish Voices
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- Tuesday, 08 August 2017
It is not just the Christian musical tradition that has struggled to differentiate between the sacred and the profane.
The Average Hit Song Has 4+ Writers and 6 Different Publishers
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- Tuesday, 08 August 2017
Want to create a hit song that will get you on the Billboard Top 10? Then you’re gonna need a committee.
IMC on Pura Mestiza Magazine
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- Tuesday, 25 July 2017
Talking with Silja Fischer, Secretary General of the International Music Council.
Will Hanoi be the next music capital of Asia?
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- Tuesday, 25 July 2017
On the shores of Dong Mo Lake, about 40 kilometers east of Hanoi, sequined dancers twirl with ribbons, while guitarists perform intimate concerts on rafts.
Can't Prog Rock Get Any Respect Around Here?
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- Tuesday, 25 July 2017
"Here is musical sterility at its pinnacle. A band that has absolutely no soul, no feeling in the music," critic Lester Bangs declared in 1975. The target of his derision? The British progressive-rock group Emerson, Lake & Palmer.
The Unfinished Work of Alan Lomax’s Global Jukebox
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- Tuesday, 25 July 2017
There’s a fundamental contradiction to the life and work of Alan Lomax, the prolific collector of American folk songs. He encouraged Western audiences to appreciate rural and indigenous traditions as true art, on the same level as classical music.
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