Graham English

Music Education

Dylan

This word cloud comes from the Bob Dylan album, Dylan. It’s the top 100 words used throughout the album and set to the same colors as the album cover.

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

This word cloud comes from the Bob Dylan album, Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid. It’s the top 100 words used throughout the album and set to the same colors as the album cover.

New Morning

This word cloud comes from the Bob Dylan album, New Morning. It’s the top 100 words used throughout the album and set to the same colors as the album cover.

Self Portrait

This word cloud comes from the Bob Dylan album, Self Portrait. It’s the top 100 words used throughout the album and set to the same colors as the album cover.

Nashville Skyline

This word cloud comes from the Bob Dylan album, Nashville Skyline. It’s the top 100 words used throughout the album and set to the same colors as the album cover.

John Wesley Harding

This word cloud comes from the Bob Dylan album, John Wesley Harding. It’s the top 100 words used throughout the album and set to the same colors as the album cover.

Blonde on Blonde

This word cloud comes from the Bob Dylan album, Blonde on Blonde. It’s the top 100 words used throughout the album and set to the same colors as the album cover.

Highway 61 Revisited

This word cloud comes from the Bob Dylan album, Highway 61 Revisited. It’s the top 100 words used throughout the album and set to the same colors as the album cover.

Charting The Beatles

“These visualizations are part of an extensive study of the music of the Beatles. Many of the diagrams and charts are based on secondary sources, including but not limited to sales statistics, biographies, recording sesion notes, sheet music, and raw audio readings.”

Bringing It All Back Home

This word cloud comes from the Bob Dylan album, Bringing It All Back Home. It’s the top 100 words used throughout the album and set to the same colors as the album cover.

The Times They Are a-Changin’

This word cloud comes from the Bob Dylan album, The Times They Are a-Changin’. It’s the top 100 words used throughout the album and set to the same colors as the album cover.

Bob Dylan (Album)

This word cloud is based on Bob Dylan’s self-titled album. It’s the top 100 words used throughout the album and set to the same colors as the album cover.

Brian Eno On The End Of An Era

“There is no reason why anyone should have made so much money from selling records except that everything was right for this period of time. I always knew it would run out sooner or later.”

Another Side of Bob Dylan

This is a word cloud based on the complete lyrics to the album, Another Side of Bob Dylan. The colors match the album cover.

The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan

It’s a word cloud based on Bob Dylan’s album, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. I even used the same colors on the album cover.

The Decade In Loudness

“Robert Siegel talks with two guests about how recorded music has changed in the past decade. First, mastering engineer Bob Ludwig explains how recordings have gotten louder and worse. Then Robert talks Andrew Oxenham, a professor in the Psychology department at the University of Minnesota, about how the ubiquity of MP3’s has changed what we hear.”

The Decade In Music: How Musicians Create

“How has technology changed the relationship between musicians and their fans? While major record labels still struggle to grasp the power of the MP3, artists, including Of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes, have embraced and even found creative solutions around file-sharing.”

Mozart’s Deceptive Simplicity

“Hear commentator Rob Kapilow demonstrate how Mozart sets up our expectations but takes us in unpredictable directions in the String Quintet in G minor. His music, like a hologram, flashes back and forth between the simple and the complicated.”

27 Live Recordings From The 1959 Newport Jazz Festival

“Here’s a few of the musicians you can listen to: Count Basie & His Orchestra, Dizzy Gillespie, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Oscar Peterson Trio and Thelonious Monk. Registration is required but it’s oh so worth it. The New York Times has the backstory of how these recordings ended up at Wolfgang’s Vault.”

All Songs Considered: The Decade’s 50 Most Important Recordings

NPR has compiled a list of the 50 most important recordings of the past 10 years.