Music the artform and artists
How To Like Jazz, For The Uninitiated
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- Tuesday, 04 February 2020
This new year, how about some new music? Music that maybe you've told yourself you really don't like — like opera, hip-hop or country.
Traditional music in Angola
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- Tuesday, 04 February 2020
To talk about Angolan traditional music is not so different than other African contexts, where colonialism sought to deny the elements that culturally identified local populations.
Rachmaninov shines as the most inventive composer in 200 years
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- Tuesday, 04 February 2020
A team of theoretical physicists has offered a new appraisal of his work by calculating that the Russian was the most innovative composer of the baroque, classical and romantic eras.
Why the past decade saw the rise and rise of East Asian pop culture
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- Tuesday, 04 February 2020
The year was 2009, and the thudding electronic beats of Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" played everywhere. A decade on, and the English-speaking world remains dominated by American-made music, films and television. But there's been a noticeable shift: a steady rise in the influence of South Korean and Japanese pop culture exports.
En musique, la contrebasse dans tous ses états
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- Tuesday, 04 February 2020
Instrument souvent relégué à l’arrière-plan de la scène, la contrebasse est pourtant un élément important de l’orchestre symphonique, apportant à la fois un soutient mélodique et rythmique aux autres musiciens.
Uncovering The Origins of Punk Rock in Indonesia
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- Tuesday, 21 January 2020
It took nearly 20 years after the birth of punk for Indonesians to embrace the genre.
Performing microtonal choral music
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- Tuesday, 21 January 2020
Why would anyone expect a choir to be able to sing microtones? All the literature seems to be on their limitations. Everyone knows that choirs are devastatingly conservative, anyway.
The Pleasure and Pain of Being Cole Porter
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- Tuesday, 21 January 2020
Almost inhumanly prolific, the songwriter produced a new kind of American lyric—and language.
Looking back at the most influential Japanese songs of the 2010s
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- Tuesday, 21 January 2020
At times it seemed the 2010s were just one long wistful gaze into the past, particularly when it came to trends in music.
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