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
Dun dun dun DUN! Four of the most recognizable notes in classical music. All thanks to Ludwig van Beethoven and his Symphony No. 5 in C minor.
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I like to think of art songs and concert spirituals as mini operas, as they are vocal pieces that tell a dramatic, emotional story. It can be a narrative; a […]
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A. Kori Hill Over a hundred years ago, there lived a guy named Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951). He was frustrated because Classical music had gotten so big, long, complex, and chromatic […]
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A. Kori Hill Did you know that a member of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Ella Sheppard (1851-1914), used to live in Cincinnati? She moved there around 1860, several years after […]
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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 If you play a woodwind or brass instrument, chances are you’ve played in a wind quintet. And you’ve likely come across the work of Imani Winds. They’ll […]
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A. Kori Hill Maud Powell (1867–1920) learned violin fast. Like, prodigy fast! She started playing at seven in her hometown of Peru, Illinois. By thirteen, she was in Leipzig, Germany, […]
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A. Kori Hill Music Hall in Cincinnati 1879, Friends of Music Hall It’s 1893. You’re sitting in Music Hall. If you’re white, you’re sitting on the orchestra level, maybe in […]
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