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
A. Kori Hill No matter your age, it’s never too early (or too late!) to think about college. There are a lot of opinions about whether college is as useful […]
To start the master’s degree program, you will need to have earned a baccalaureate
Through the centuries, there have been exceptional female performers – on the largest
The Music Hall founded by Andrew Carnegie in New York City opened on May 5, 1891 with a concert conducted by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It quickly became known simply as […]
Famous soloists such as Isaac Stern and Artur Rubenstein have played there and as
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
brilliant performer and composer, due to his skin color, it was difficult for Walker to have
A. Kori Hill Thomas Greene Wiggins was born in 1849 in Columbus, Georgia. He grew up with his parents, Charity and Mingo Wiggins, on the plantation of Colonel James Bethune. […]
Thomas should have been free and allowed to decide where he wanted to live; the Emancipation
A. Kori Hill Some folks joke that Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) wrote the same concerto 200 times. He didn’t; he wrote at least 300, some think as many as 500, though […]
didn’t; he wrote at least 300, some think as many as 500, though not all of them have
A. Kori Hill If you study classical music, you’ve probably been told to take the edge out of your sound and make it pretty. There is so much classical music […]
Each musician has at least four other things they have to play.
