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Def Leppard Covers Its Own Hits, Pours Some Sugar on Stephen Colbert. Chronologie du Rock. Ear Training Sites. Introduction. Introduction J. A. Fuller Maitland, English Carols of the Fifteenth Century London: The Leadenhall Press, E.C., ca. 1891. Table of ContentsAppendix Comparatively few persons, even among antiquaries and historians, have the power of discerning the beauty which is held to underlie the productions of the earliest periods of artistic development; yet, if such beauty did not exist, the influence exercised by these works upon later achievements would be quite inexplicable. The series of carols contained in this volume shows the science of counterpoint in a very early and rudimentary condition, and from many passages it is clear that the influence of the “organum” was still strongly felt by the composer.

In the case of one of the songs (the “Agincourt Song,” as it is called), the existence of another old transcript of the music gives opportunity for a most instructive comparison of the two texts. This, book consists of two main divisions: 1. 2. 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Is not uncommon. I. II. III. IV. Playground Bullies (Musician Edition) Inside the Project to Immortalize John Peel’s Record Collection.

Poetic Physics: Measuring Stars By Their Internal Music. 1. What is this? 2. What's that sexy bid'ness going on in the background? It's Farscape, season 3, "Meltdown". Strange alien makes a star "sing" to leviathans (which is the ship they are on) to get them to crash into the star. Their leviathan gets damaged and releases leviathan! I tried to make a better summary and failed. Well done ! Also, Farscape best thing Australia ever produced :P Haha, yes! Mashup Master Pogo Shows How You Can Make Songs Out of Movie Clips.

All DJs Are Glorified Button Pushers. Viral Sheet Music: The Creative Notation of John Stump and others « Creative mutations… and squinting drunky? Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz. The most viral sheet music in existence. Which may or may not be true. More likely the latter. But nonetheless, John Stump has a curious talent for creative applications of music notation. The ever-present “Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz” is sure to have graced your screen at some point or another: There is also the “String Quartet No. 556(b) for Strings In A Minor (Motoring Accident)” And don’t forget the lesser-known “Prelude and the Last Hope in C and C# Minor” I don’t know who John Stump is, but there is certainly a lot of enthusiasm for his work. And here is Jacob Dakeson “playing” the aforementioned piece: John Stump is not without his own influence on the next generation of notation-wizards – take the piece “Atushi Ojisama and Ijigen Waltz (from “A Tribute to Yamasaki Atushi”)” by Yamasaki Atusi, another unknown engraver I stumbled upon during my research on Stump: But it doesn’t stop there.

He goes on to explain: Yes. Music: The Internet’s Original Sin. In a recent Search Engine podcast, host Jesse Brown wondered about music’s ongoing centrality to the debate over file-sharing and freedom. After all, the music industry has all but abandoned lawsuits against fans, and services from Last.fm to the Amazon MP3 store present a robust set of legit ways of hearing and acquiring music. The labels have even abandoned DRM. So why is the music industry the enduring bogeyman of Internet policy fights? Brown called downloading music ‘‘the Internet’s original sin,’’ and posited that we’ll go on talking for music for a long time yet. I think he’s right. Let’s start with music’s age. Music is also contingent. The reality is that all music takes from all other music, anyway. Meanwhile, the recording industry has always had a well-deserved reputation for corruption and maltreatment of artists. Maltreatment of the talent isn’t unique to music, of course. Twelve years later, abundance is the signal characteristic of all media.

Measuring the Evolution of Contemporary Western Popular Music : Scientific Reports. To identify structural patterns of musical discourse we first need to build a ‘vocabulary’ of musical elements (Fig. 1). To do so, we encode the dataset descriptions by a discretization of their values, yielding what we call music codewords20 (see Supplementary Information, SI). In the case of pitch, the descriptions of each song are additionally transposed to an equivalent main tonality, such that all of them are automatically considered within the same tonal context or key. Next, to quantify long-term variations of a vocabulary, we need to obtain samples of it at different periods of time.

For that we perform a Monte Carlo sampling in a moving window fashion. The dataset contains the beat-based music descriptions of the audio rendition of a musical piece or score (G, Em, and D7 on the top of the staff denote chords). Full size image (297 KB) We first count the frequency of usage of pitch codewords (i.e. the number of times each codeword type appears in a sample). ). David Byrne: 'It feels like the end of history in pop music' | Music | The Observer. In your new book, How Music Works, you begin by asserting that context is an overlooked element in creativity… Context is much more important and ubiquitous than I'd realised.

Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology obviously, but environment too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market. That sounds close to a Marxist reading of music production. [Laughs] Well, Marx is having a comeback.

The notion that environment determines creativity is interesting in terms of the audience as well as the performer. Oh, yeah. What about your notion that musicians are almost programmed to make music for certain contexts and formats? That's where it gets interesting, yes. You believe that context is of equal importance as having something to say or expressing emotions? Yes. Oh yeah. That surprised me too. Do they still apply in today's music culture? The album? Yeah.

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Forgotten String Quartets — Exploring unjustly neglected masterpieces. Tom Pang Plays Bluegrass with a Mongolian Twist. Tom Pang, or Pang Zhi Peng, is a 28-year-old, shaggy-haired ethnic Mongolian. He grew up playing classical violin, but then (to the dismay of his father who wanted his son to play in an orchestra) he fell in love with bluegrass. Adam Brooks Dudding is a Nashville singer-songwriter and sometime bluegrass flat picker. He's in Shanghai for now and plays regularly with Pang. He says bluegrass and Mongolian music seem to come from a similar emotional landscape. "Bluegrass, there's that high lonesome sound, that country feel, where it's kind of wide-open," Pang's other comrade on stage at a bar in Shanghai is guitarist Jeff Davis. Davis moved from California to Shanghai about five years ago. He says he's played rock, swing, even punk polka over the years and liked how open and fresh Shanghai's music scene was.

Then he heard about a couple of Mongolians called Tom & Jerry, who played bluegrass. "Meeting Tom and playing with Tom made me think seriously about staying here," Davis says. A Pachyderm's Ditty Prompts An Elephantine Debate. Hide captionShanthi explores her yard at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, D.C., in 2010. The 36-year-old Asian elephant loves blowing into a harmonica. Mehgan Murphy/Smithsonian Institution When one of the residents of the National Zoo in Washington recently revealed her love of music to zookeepers there, some ears perked up. Shanthi, a 36-year-old Asian elephant loves playing (with) her harmonica. "She's just so interested in finding ways to make interesting noises," says elephant keeper Debbie Flinkman.

"If a lock makes noise she'll flip the lock repetitively. And when Flinkman tied a harmonica to the wall in Shanthi's enclosure, the elephant wouldn't stop blowing in it. "It's not usually a long ditty but it always ends in this really big sort of fanfare at the end," Flinkman says, "this big blowout. " That sparked some questions: Are the noises Shanthi is making music? Levitin says the accident idea is a big one. Auditory cheesecake. Take the idea of a beat.

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Sofia Gubaidulina – Free listening, concerts, stats, & pictures at Last.fm. Lukas Foss: Orpheus and Euridice (1983) In Search of a Liszt to Be Loved. IHAVE long suffered from Lisztophobia. Though I've occasionally admired a piece by Franz Liszt, I have avoided his music for decades whenever possible. It just doesn't appeal to me, I told myself. I ignored Liszt recordings by Martha Argerich, Claudio Arrau and Jorge Bolet, all of whose work I admired in other repertory. Stubbornly, I held out against Lisztophiliacs (all, inevitably, had-been pianists) who tried to convert me. Meanwhile, I took comfort in the results of highly unscientific surveys (conversations with musical friends and colleagues) that proved I was not alone in my affliction. Here's the man: a strutting, manipulative, priapic rock star for the Romantics, with a sexual magnetism that set off what the poet Heinrich Heine dubbed Lisztomania, a condition in which swooning female fans collected his cigar butts to secrete in their cleavages.

"I felt that Liszt had not only not been well served by his biographers in the past, but in fact he had been very badly served," Mr. "Water/Ice/Steam" for toy piano by David Smooke. Dengue Fever- Sleepwalking Through The Mekong. Pandit Pran Nath - Raga Kut Todi by 123jon. Jazz Violin (Scott Tixier) "Trio" - Morton Feldman. Morton Feldman - Composition (8 Little Pieces) How Do You Get To Carnegie Hall? No, Seriously. : Deceptive Cadence. Hide captionStern Auditorium/Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall: one of the world's greatest stages.

Jeff Goldberg / Esto/courtesy of Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall: one of the world's greatest stages. We all know the punchline to the old joke, right? Even people who wouldn't know Yo-Yo Ma from Yanni know Carnegie Hall is where the world's greats play. So how do unknown students and amateurs get to perform at one of the world's most celebrated venues? Carnegie Hall is without doubt one of the most prestigious facilities in the world.

And saying that you've played at Carnegie Hall might just be one of the ultimate badges of musical honor. With the next concert season nearly upon us, we wanted to take a closer look at how performers actually get to Carnegie Hall. First off: There are actually three performance spaces at Carnegie Hall. Secondly: Ever since Carnegie Hall first opened in 1891, it's been available for rent.

So what's the answer to that old joke?

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The 6 Most Insanely Huge Musical Instruments. Humanity became great for two reasons: our ability to create beauty through art, and our urge to build increasingly huge, terrifying gadgets. It only makes sense that these two impulses would converge in amazing, if largely useless, ways. That's how we wind up with huge and insane musical instruments like ... #6. Uberorgan Uberorgan isn't just the Internet username of millions of 15-year-old males -- it's also something much stranger. Imagine a series of gigantic alien bagpipes, mixed with a monstrous player piano, all connected by huge translucent worms that snake throughout the bulk of a 15,000-square-foot gallery. Odd MusicFrom the lesser known sequel, Willy Wonka and the Church Organ from Hell. Uberorgan is a self-playing (and, we're convinced, self-aware) musical machine in which several bus-sized biomorphic balloons are tuned to different octaves so that when pressurized air is blown through a reed, a specific sound is produced.

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Cello. Guitar. SHEET MUSIC. 10 Essentials On Guitar Improvisation. Photo by Simone13 AKA John Pastorello Besides writing and playing songs I just love improvising. When I practice improvising I always first pour myself a cup of green tea, I put on some folk music (e.g. Ray La Montagne, Damien Rice, Stephen Fretwell, Glen Hansard, Sheryl Crow, etc.) on Last.fm or Spotify.com and then I start to improvise over these songs.

I get totally caught up in the moment and let my fingers carry me away. Other times I practice melodic patterns, triads, arpeggios, licks, everything that will spice up my improvisation skills. You can never stop growing. Improvising is one of the most fun and fulfilling aspects of guitar playing, but also something that requires a lot of hard work and dedication. Here are 10 basic essentials that will help you become a better improviser. 1 – Pentatonics / blues Learn to play the pentatonic/blues scale all over the neck in all five shapes. 2 – Major Scale Next to the pentatonic scale, the major scale is the most important scale to learn. Recreating King Louis XIV's Vanished Violins.

Say what you will about the Sun King, the guy could dance. At least that's what historians tell us. And what King Louis XIV danced to was Baroque music. The royal orchestra that performed for the French court at Versailles included 24 violins – five different varieties of them. Patrick Cohen-Akenine, an orchestra leader and violinist, said the sound of those violins must have been incredible. "There's a chemistry among the strings, a strength," he said. That's a strong moniker to give to someone at Versailles. The Baroque movement had enough gas in its tank for another half century. What happened? The master from Cremona, Italy, came up with perfection, a virtuoso violin, a soloist's dream.

"You have to know," he said, "these violins belonged in the interior of the orchestra. And they became an obsession for Laulhere and Cohen-Akenine, who first approached the master builder several years ago with what seemed like an impossible challenge. DarwInstruments: Better Sound Through Evolution. Cyborg makes art using seventh sense. Liz Else, associate opinion editor (Image: Dan Wilton/RedBulletin) Neil Harbisson can only see shades of grey. So his prosthetic eyepiece, which he calls an “eyeborg”, interprets the colours for him and translates them into sound. Harbisson’s art sounds like a kind of inverse synaesthesia. When did you realise you were colour blind? What is the gadget you are wearing? How does it work? All the translation happens in a chip on the back of my neck - it's all held by pressure onto the bone. How long did it take you to learn how to use it? What is it like?

Can you go beyond the normal range of the 300 or so visible hues? Tell me about your art I create sound from colours. And I can create art from sounds by transposing sound into notes and therefore into colour. So, what is the colour of Mozart? You create portraits too - how? I also did the opposite, creating colour portraits from voices. What happened? Do some people "look/sound" good? What's the potential for future applications? The Audition. Adaptistration | Drew McManus on the orchestra business. Pianist Jeremy Denk's Favorite Mistake: Ditching Science. 16 Musical Odes To Very Strange Animals. Illustration by Jelmer Noordeman/Courtesy of the artist Illustration by Jelmer Noordeman/Courtesy of the artist Illustration by Jelmer Noordeman/Courtesy of the artist Illustration by Jelmer Noordeman/Courtesy of the artist Illustration by Jelmer Noordeman/Courtesy of the artist Illustration by Jelmer Noordeman/Courtesy of the artist CD sleeves usually feature pictures of the musicians, the text of lyrics and copious thanks. hide captionMichael Hearst is the musician behind Songs for Unusual Creatures.

Courtesy of the artist Michael Hearst is the musician behind Songs for Unusual Creatures. But the sleeve of Michael Hearst's new CD, Songs for Unusual Creatures, shows pictures of a blue-footed booby, an elephant shrew, a blobfish, a humpback anglerfish and more. (Those images are courtesy of illustrator Jelmer Noordeman, and will appear in a book version of the project, out later this year.) "Some of them were almost built for this album," Hearst tells NPR's Scott Simon.

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