The Most Popular Keys of All Music on Spotify. BBC News - Smartphone voting system 'aims for perfect dance track' Silent Night: The story of the Christmas carol. Ylvis - The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?) [Official music video HD] How did ancient Greek music sound? By Armand D'Angour . Media playback is unsupported on your device The music of ancient Greece, unheard for thousands of years, is being brought back to life by Armand D'Angour, a musician and tutor in classics at Oxford University.
He describes what his research is discovering. "Suppose that 2,500 years from now all that survived of the Beatles songs were a few of the lyrics, and all that remained of Mozart and Verdi's operas were the words and not the music. Imagine if we could then reconstruct the music, rediscover the instruments that played them, and hear the words once again in their proper setting, how exciting that would be. This is about to happen with the classic texts of ancient Greece. It is often forgotten that the writings at the root of Western literature - the epics of Homer, the love-poems of Sappho, the tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides - were all, originally, music. Finding the pitch But isn't the music lost beyond recovery? Folk music Image copyright Reuters Tuning up. :: PERGOLESI.COM | SITE BY OSHIN SAGINIAN :: Debussy, Arabesque #1, Piano Solo (animation ver. 2) Plaisir d'Amour (Nana Mouskouri)
On ne voit pas le temps passer (Jean Ferrat ) Les moulins de mon coeur (Frida Boccara) Alexander Chen – Baroque.me: Bach Cello Suites No. 1, Prelude. Project summary Details I created eight strings, as the Prelude’s natural phrasing is in groups of eight notes. The orbiting nodes pluck the strings, like a rotating music box. You can also grab and throw the nodes off track, and watch the system slowly regain its rhythm.
A harp is built around string length, with strings shortening as they ascend in pitch. This piece behaves like an impossible harp, as strings morph to the needed lengths. The looping, eight-note pattern is something we see all the time in grid-based drum sequencers. Classical notation is convenient and concise code. I calculated lengths of strings using Pythagorean tuning. Performers of the Prelude all bring their own interpretation in tempo, timing, and expressiveness. Like MTA.ME and the Les Paul Doodle, the visuals are coded in Javascript and HTML5 Canvas, triggering Flash audio in the background with the SoundManager library.
I’m launching baroque.me during this first month as a resident at Eyebeam. Further Reading.