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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

Cool And Recent Podcasts From Around The Web

January 11, 2008 By Graham English

Here's some recent podcasts from around the web that I've been inspired by musically. The Ring and I It might seem hyperbole to claim, as many Wagnerites do, that The Ring Cycle is "The Greatest Work of Art Ever." But the grandeur and power of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: brain, lyric writing, lyricists, lyrics, Mozart, neurology, podcast, podcasts, Science, songwriters, Songwriting, Stravinsky, Wagner

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

March 31, 2007 By Graham English

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: Absolute Pitch, APP FAQ, Kind Of Blue, Language, Miles Davis, Mozart, myth, perfect pitch, personality, pitch, relative pitch, temperament, tempered scale, tuning

Precocious Predictions – Debunking The Mozart Myth

October 21, 2006 By Graham English

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LifeHacks, Prose Tagged With: deliberate practice, Malcolm Gladwell, Mozart, Practice, practice schedule, prodigy

Discover the Power of Mental Rehearsal

August 16, 2006 By Graham English

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LifeHacks, Prose Tagged With: Albert Einstein, athletes, breathing, composing, exercises, goals, HowTo, mental rehearsal, Mozart, Nicholas Tesla, NLP, NLP techniques, personal growth, problem solving, right brain, subconscious, Swoosh, visualization, visualizing

Mozart’s music diary goes online

January 12, 2006 By Graham English

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Education, Prose Tagged With: Mozart

Scientists May Have Found Mozart’s Skull

January 4, 2006 By Graham English

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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Lifestream, Prose Tagged With: Mozart

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