Music the artform and artists
Rare 15th-century songbook discovered
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- Tuesday, 16 May 2017
A rare music manuscript was presented on Monday 24 April at Huis van de Polyfonie in Heverlee. The songbook, which was named the ‘Leuven Chansonnier’, was discovered in 2014 at a sale by a Brussels auction house.
Those Timeless Tunes of the 1940s, ’60s, and ’80s
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- Saturday, 29 April 2017
New research suggests the top pop hits of those even-numbered decades haven’t lost their appeal.
Opera wants more realistic portrayals. But in casting, it’s all about the voice.
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- Saturday, 29 April 2017
These days, the opera field itself is effectively sabotaging the argument that voice type comes first.
History of Muzak: Where Did All The Elevator Music Go?
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- Saturday, 29 April 2017
Of Muzak, Professor Gary Gumpert of Queens College, in a 1990 interview for Britain’s Channel 4, said: “[it’s] a kind of amniotic fluid that surrounds us; and it never startles us, it is never too loud, it is never too silent; it’s always there.”
Alan Lomax Recordings Are Digitized in a New Online Collection
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- Saturday, 29 April 2017
Alan Lomax made it his lifelong mission to archive and share traditional music from around the world. He spent decades in the field, recording heralded artists like Muddy Waters and Woody Guthrie, as well as far more obscure musicians, from the British Isles to Haiti.
La musique live au Gabon
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- Saturday, 29 April 2017
Bien que le « playback » (technique qui consiste à jouer de la musique sans que la voix ou l’instrument soit capté par le micro), révélé dans les années 90 avec l’arrivée du hip hop, soit aujourd’hui très en vogue, le live est bien existant chez nous et ce, depuis les années 60.
Ogene: How an Igbo genre broke into mainstream Nigerian music
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- Tuesday, 18 April 2017
As an instrument, ogene is forged by blacksmiths who can still be found in Awka. It is the most important of an array of Igbo musical instruments including the ekwe, igba, oja, udu and ichaka.
12 Sound Artists Changing Your Perception of Art
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- Tuesday, 18 April 2017
For some, abstraction might mean non-figurative painting, but today’s hottest emotive medium is so abstract it can’t be seen, touched, or felt.
The 42,000 year old instruments still making a noise in the classical world
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- Tuesday, 18 April 2017
Carbon dating techniques show they’re around 42,000 years old. Three of the flutes were found in the Geissenklösterle caves in Swabia in South Germany, one came from the Isturitz cave in the Pyrenees.
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