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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Pronunciation: Example: Rest Rests have the same time value as notes.
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
be done symmetrically using both hands), while older students are challenged to have
After Christopher Columbus made his first trip across the Atlantic Ocean, Spain and other European countries began to colonize the Americas. Spanish music had a big influence on Latin American […]
married European forms with Indigenous sounds, creating folk music traditions that have
A. Kori Hill A few posts ago, we discussed signifyin(g): a formal process in Black music where older material is quoted and transformed into a new context. You can hear […]
This practice extends far back into the medieval period, and we have examples that
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xylophone, chimes and gong. Beethoven’s Ninth Many generations of concertgoers have
A. Kori Hill Leontyne Price was born in 1927 in Laurel, Mississippi. Her mother, Kate Baker Price, was a soprano in the church choir, so Leontyne was surrounded by music […]
concert spiritual “My Soul’s Been Anchored in the Lord.� Even though they have
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
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
