Trinity Lê, CFK Intern Randall Goosby is an American concert violinist. He is the recipient of the 2022 Avery Fisher Career Grant and was the first prize winner of the […]
Randall Goosby and CFK intern, Trinity have a lively discussion in WGUC’s Corbett
Music In celebration of the Christmas season, some classical compositions that have
Trinity Le, CFK Intern Adolphus Hailstork, a contemporary American composer, hails from upstate New York and currently resides in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Like so many of our great composers, Hailstork […]
Hailstork studied with famed composition teacher Nadia Boulenger, and his works have
be done symmetrically using both hands), while older students are challenged to have
A. Kori Hill Tai Murray was born in Chicago. She is one of six kids, and as a kid, she became fascinated with the violin. She couldn’t get enough of […]
You have to pull out different sounds to show the different emotions that are occurring
If you love reading about composers, compositions, and music traditions, you’ve likely enjoyed something written by a music scholar. These folks go by many names and use many tools to study all these things. Not all musicological topics are historical, and not all music scholars are musicologists. So today, I want to break down for you the three major disciplines of academic music study people pursue when they want to write about music history and culture: musicology, ethnomusicology, and music theory.
Together, music theorists, ethnomusicologists, and musicologists have given us books
There are SO many great music scholars out there. So many folks that make it easy for us to access information on music and its history. That’s the cool thing about music scholarship: it doesn’t stay the same. Because there’s always something new to uncover or reinvestigate. Â
Well, Gershwin, like Beethoven (and many other composers), didn’t have the neatest
Growing up in Chicago, Margaret Bonds was surrounded by music. Her mother, Estella Bonds, was an organist and fixture of the South Side’s classical music scene. Her composition teachers included […]
Margaret may have written her cantata for Christmas, but she and Langston were thinking
Even if you don’t know it, you’ve probably heard it. I’m talking about “Hallelujahâ€� from George Frideric Handel’s oratorio, Messiah. Celebrating the triumph of the Christian savior, Jesus Christ, over […]
entire oratorio, you’ll definitely program “Hallelujah.� But I’m sure you have
Remember how we talked about Messiah by Handel and The Ballad of the Brown King by Bonds? How did Handel tell a musical story about Jesus’ life and Bonds’ tell […]
Dett’s The Ordering of Moses may have started as a class project, but the details
