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Hispanic Dance Forms Dance is very important in Spain, and Spanish dance forms have
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.
Well, Gershwin, like Beethoven (and many other composers), didn’t have the neatest
Ludwig van Beethoven was a uniquely talented composer and musician. But by the time Beethoven was 30, his increasing deafness put an end to his career as a pianist. That […]
pianist because he was going deaf he wanted to play the clarinet he didn’t have
Music Dictionary Want to learn more about musical terms – or discover some new ones? Find musical terms alphabetically A B C D E F G H I J K […]
For example, singers might have “piano accompaniment.”
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pentatonic scale only has five notes (unlike the major and minor scales, which have
A. Kori Hill In the summer of 1933, a symphony was premiered in Chicago’s Symphony Hall. It was written by a woman who’d called the city home for only six […]
symphonies Price would compose before she died in 1953 and one of three that we 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
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
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
A. Kori Hill When Melissa White saw Itzhak Perlman play violin on Sesame Street, she knew she wanted to play too. After begging her mom for two years, she started lessons and […]
Kori Hill Have you ever been excluded?
