Music the artform and artists
Naa Music – What’s Unique about it
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- Monday, 09 December 2019
Naa Music is a very unique type of music that’s very popular in India, but if you aren’t from there, chances are that you’ve never heard about it.
Tibetan Musical Notation Is Beautiful
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- Monday, 09 December 2019
As in sacred music in the West, Tibetan music has complex systems of musical notation and a long history of written religious song.
La musique est bien une langue universelle
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- Monday, 09 December 2019
La musique serait commune à toute l'humanité. Malgré l'immense diversité de genres et de rythmes que le 4ème art a le pouvoir d'offrir à nos oreilles, toutes les sociétés humaines sont très similairement réceptives aux mêmes sons et musiques.
What happens to the brain when jazz musicians improvise?
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- Tuesday, 26 November 2019
Although musical improvisation—composing new passages on the spot—is not unique to jazz, it’s perhaps the genre’s most defining element.
Arabic trap music is taking over the Middle East, so could this give us the region’s first hip-hop star?
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- Tuesday, 26 November 2019
From the UAE to Morocco, the hip-hop subgenre has inspired a new generation of artists.
More to the floor: the decade the dancefloor was decolonised
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- Monday, 25 November 2019
Collectives like NON and Naafi helped to loosen the west’s stranglehold on club culture – and now the most exciting dance music is coming from east Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Rock, Pop, and the Development of Avant Garde Music After World War II
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- Monday, 25 November 2019
Experimental Music Blurred Divisions Between High and Low Art.
Musique et plaisir : une étude sur près de 800 tubes, des Beatles à Genesis
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- Monday, 25 November 2019
Pourquoi éprouve-t-on du plaisir en écoutant "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" des Beatles ou "Invisible Touch" de Genesis ? Des scientifiques ont tenté de l'expliquer en étudiant les enchaînements d'accords dans plusieurs centaines de tubes.
6th World Forum on Music: Recap Right no. 1
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- Tuesday, 12 November 2019
Curated by Ian Smith (President of the European Music Council), the session was very inspirational and offered a blend of personal experiences and suggestions of action.
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