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Mozart’s Deceptive Simplicity

November 18, 2009 By Graham English

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: classical, classical music, melody, Mozart, NPR, phrase length, phrasing, simplicity, symmetry, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

27 Live Recordings From The 1959 Newport Jazz Festival

November 17, 2009 By Graham English

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: 1959, Audio, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, jazz, live music, live recordings, music, Newport Jazz Festival, Oscar Peterson, recordings, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Thelonious Monk, Wolfgang's Vault

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

November 16, 2009 By Graham English

NPR has compiled a list of the 50 most important recordings of the past 10 years. Here's a PDF of the full list: The Decade's 50 Most Important Recordings Link: The Decade's 50 Most Important Recordings … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Opinion, Prose Tagged With: 50 most important recordings, All Songs Considered, lists, music, NPR, recordings

Virtual Composer Creates New Music

November 16, 2009 By Graham English

There's a mysterious new composer on the classical music scene. Her name? Emily Howell. But no one's ever seen her in person. The reason? She's a computer program created by David Cope, a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Host … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose, Technology Tagged With: classical music, composers, composing, composition, computer music, David Cope, Emily Howell, generative music, LISP

Visualizing Sound Waves With Fire

November 14, 2009 By Graham English

Cool physics experiment: The Rubens' Tube Watch on YouTube: Visualizing Sound Waves With Fire … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Video Tagged With: air pressure, experiments, fire, frequency, physics, Rubens' Tube, sine wave, sound, sound waves, standing waves, waveform

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