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pentatonic scale only has five notes (unlike the major and minor scales, which have
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For example, singers might have “piano accompaniment.”
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
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Pronunciation: Example: Rest Rests have the same time value as notes.
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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 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
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
