Graham English

Posts Tagged ‘Mozart’

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.”

Cool And Recent Podcasts From Around The Web

Here’s some recent podcasts from around the web that I’ve been inspired by musically. Read on…

Destroying The Myth That Music Is Annoying If You Have Absolute Pitch

There’s a perpetually propagated myth that if you have absolute pitch, then if you listen to music that is out of tune, you have a bad experience. If there is any truth to this myth, it’s definitely not an absolute. Some people may be disturbed by music that is out of tune. I believe this [...]

Precocious Predictions – Debunking The Mozart Myth

This article by Eric Wargo was inspired by an address Malcolm Gladwell gave at this year’s Association for Psychological Science Convention.
To be a prodigy in music, for example, is to be a mimic, to reproduce what you hear from grown-up musicians. Yet only rarely, according to Gladwell, do child musical prodigies manage to make the [...]

Discover the Power of Mental Rehearsal

Have you ever created the perfect melody or song in a dream? Or maybe you composed a complete symphony or an amazing solo?
Imagine that you could create those “perfect dream moments” anytime you want. Imagine there is a process so powerful that you can literally program your mind to create anything you want.
Read these examples:

Nicholas [...]

Mozart’s music diary goes online

BBC NEWS | Technology | Mozart’s music diary goes online:
Mozart’s music diary goes online

The diary holds details of 145 of Mozart’s compositions
Net users are getting a chance to enjoy some of Mozart’s most rarely performed compositions.
A digital version of Mozart’s musical diary is being put online by the British Library to help celebrate 250 years [...]

Scientists May Have Found Mozart’s Skull

Scientists May Have Found Mozart’s Skull:
Have scientists found Mozart’s skull? Researchers said Tuesday they’ll reveal the results of DNA tests in a documentary film airing this weekend on Austrian television as part of a year of celebratory events marking the composer’s 250th birthday.
All I really want to find is Mozart’s talent.