Music the artform and artists
Que sait-on de la place de la musique dans l’Antiquité ?
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- Tuesday, 28 November 2017
Réussit-on à déchiffrer les rares partitions fragmentaires grecques et mésopotamiennes qui nous sont parvenues ?
The Syrian DJ who invented Electro-Tarab
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- Tuesday, 14 November 2017
Eldahr was born in Aleppo, a "traditional music city" as he puts it. At a young age, his uncle - a music shop owner at the time - exposed him to modern Western music which would immensely influence his own tunes.
Instrumental Instruments: MPC60
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- Tuesday, 14 November 2017
Hip-hop as an art form didn’t come out of nowhere, and neither did its elements or its tools. Turntables existed before hip-hop, as did the mixer, the MC and rap itself.
The Beat Goes On: A Short History of the Metronome
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- Tuesday, 14 November 2017
The musician sent home to practice with a metronome confronts in this prescription an absentminded chaperone. It sits on the stand and clucks a rigid beat regardless of whether the player, afflicted with an inability to keep a steady tempo, deigns to follow it.
The forgotten ancient Greek instrumen
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- Tuesday, 14 November 2017
If you haven't heard this instrument before, don't panic, you're not alone.
La pop nigériane mène la révolution de la musique panafricaine
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- Tuesday, 14 November 2017
De Guinée au Mozambique, du Botswana au Kenya, Davido, star de l'afropop et icône des jeunes Africains, parcourt le continent en jet privé et reçoit partout le même accueil: des stades remplis à craquer et des foules en délire.
When Pierre Boulez Went Electric
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- Tuesday, 31 October 2017
Pierre Boulez, the radical modernist composer who later in his career became one of the most sought-after conductors in the world, was famous for his polemics. “I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa,” he once said.
Studio for Electronic Music: Why was the German recording facility so innovative?
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- Tuesday, 31 October 2017
State-of-the-art Cologne production house paved the way for host of progressive new genres from krautrock to trance.
How video game music is finally getting the appreciation it deserves
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- Tuesday, 31 October 2017
“Several game soundtracks end up in the Top 10 on iTunes, not just in the soundtracks section, but in the ‘all albums’ section,”.
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