Music the artform and artists
Theremín: ¿es este el instrumento musical más extraño jamás inventado?
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- Sunday, 12 September 2021
Inventado hace 100 años, el primer instrumento electrónico del mundo inspiró el surgimiento de la tecnología de sonido que llevó a Robert Moog a crear el sintetizador moderno, transformando el panorama musical desde entonces.
The radical Augusta Holmès: History’s forgotten composer
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- Tuesday, 03 August 2021
From Black heroes like the “Hidden Figures,” who helped accelerate the Space Race, to Matthew Henson, the actual first man to reach the North Pole, culture tends to focus its energy on those who are most like those in places of influence and power — typically men, and typically white men.
Revisiting five legendary African songs that made music history
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- Monday, 02 August 2021
From Egypt to South Africa, The Africa Report invites readers to rediscover five legendary music hits that will never fade away...
Largest wind instrument
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- Monday, 02 August 2021
For more than a year, the Golden Gate Bridge has been making an ethereal humming sound on windy days that has aggravated neighbors, charmed fans and sparked countless jokes.
Comment A. R. Rahman a-t-il révolutionné la musique de Bollywood
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- Monday, 02 August 2021
Si nous oublions l’anthropologie, il existe un lien émotionnel transcendantal avec toute forme de musique.
Música Zoque es inmortalizada a través de videos en YouTube
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- Monday, 02 August 2021
Los integrantes del Colectivo plantearon la necesidad de grabar su música pues se encuentra en constante perdida, asimismo, buscaron una forma de renovarse, ya que el aprendizaje de las nuevas generaciones se da a través de la tecnología.
Nigeria: Afrobeats’ unpaid debt to highlife’s Crosdale Juba
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- Tuesday, 20 July 2021
Contemporary Nigerian music in its present incarnation owes a lot to highlife- the popular West African dance music in the post-colonial era of the 1960s. Case in point: Crosdale Juba, Ikale’s great trumpeter.
Kazakhstan Celebrates 115th Anniversary of First Kazakh Waltz Author
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- Tuesday, 20 July 2021
Kazakhstan celebrates the 115th birthday anniversary of Latif Khamidi, composer, educator, the co-author of first Kazakh anthem (1945), People’s Artist of Kazakhstan and laureate of the Kazakh State Prize.
A Queen of 19th-Century Opera Gets New Attention
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- Tuesday, 20 July 2021
Pauline Viardot, born 200 years ago this weekend, was a famous singer, as well as a composer whose music is being salvaged from obscurity.
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