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100 Ways to Discover and Enjoy Music. UPDATE 12/10/13: We’ve released a follow-up to this post with 100 More Ways to Discover and Enjoy Music.

100 Ways to Discover and Enjoy Music

Prepare yourself for another dose of Monday roundup madness! It’s time for another crazily comprehensive, yet carefully curated, look at an entire industry–the music industry to be specific. This if the first in a two-part series on the music industry which will conclude next week. This week’s focus is on the consumer side of music. Below you’ll find the best resources for music fans including ways to discover new tunes, the best tools and services for creating a perfect music listening experience, tons of concert and live show resources, many ways to enhance Spotify, social tools for getting down with your friends, iPhone and Android music apps, music locker (cloud) services and finally some miscellaneous resources that you’re bound to love.

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Sacred Steel - Various Artists - Arhoolie Records. DVD203 - 55 Minutes long. Featuring: Elder Maurice "Ted" Beard, the Campbell Brothers with Katie Jackson, Calvin Cooke, Willie Eason, Elder Aubrey Ghent, Rev. Glenn Lee, Robert Randolph, historic video footage of Henry Nelson, and more.... In the late 1930's musicians of the House of God Keith Dominion Holiness-Pentacostal Church began playing their worship music on electric steel guitars. Taking the words from Psalm 150:4 "praise Him with stringed instruments" and Psalm 149:3 "let them praise His name in the dance," the guitarists developed unique styles, tunings, repertoires, and techniques.Filmed on location in several churches, Sacred Steel traces the development of this tradition. Through interviews, performances, and historic footage, Sacred Steel will move the body and spirit as well as educate.

Chapters: “Sacred Steel was the most exciting roots music to emerge at the end of the 20th century, and this video is the next best thing to actually being in the church with the musicians.” The 3 Best Free Classical Music Download Sites. Classical music can be an ambiguous term.

The 3 Best Free Classical Music Download Sites

It is widely used to identify the Classical period, which approximately covers the years from 1750 to 1820. On the other hand, Western art music from 1000 CE to the present is also called classical music. The following is a list of the best classical music download sites that provide a mix of both, i.e. classical music ranging from Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods and via the 20th century to Contemporary classical music of our time.

All tracks and albums are legal to download. They are either copyleft / public domain or available under a Creative Commons license. Classical.com Classical.com is the classical pendant to iTunes. List of classical music composers by era. List of classical music composers by era From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search This is a list of classical music composers by era.

List of classical music composers by era

Contents [hide] Medieval era[edit] See the List of Medieval composers and Medieval music. Renaissance era[edit] See the List of Renaissance composers and Renaissance music. Baroque era[edit] Philip Glass - Sesame Street - Geometry of Circles. [ INCREDIBOX ] presents [ THE INCREDIBLE POLO ] Nature Sounds. Hey-jude-flowchart-12579-1256764727-4.jpg (JPEG Image, 500x667 pixels) - Scaled (96%) Brazilian Music - Samba, Bossa Nova, Brazilian-jazz.

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Tim Minchin - Hallelujah. Axiom of Choice Official Website. NIYAZ - World music for the 21st Century. Nouveau Oldtime Jam: Blind Boy Paxton, Dom Flemons (of Carolina Chocolate Drops), and Frank Fairfield. (Watch video: YouTube, Dotsub, or download MP4.) A quick little goodie from Boing Boing Video. Last night, I sat in on a live recording session at Santa Monica's Village Studios with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, described as "African-American string band revivalists. " They were amazing: I have never been so emotionally moved by someone playing a musical jug (and banjos, fiddles, cow bones, and kazoos).

Their performance was witnessed by a handful of music biz folks and oldtime music enthusiasts, and made me feel deeply homesick for Appalachia (I'm also craving cornbread and butterbeans today - there's a song for that). The Chocolate Drops have a new record coming out in 2010, and Boing Boing will be all over it like gravy on grits. (Special thanks to Joe Henry; Jeff Greenberg of Village Studios; Tom Osborn, Warner Bros. SolarBeat. The Rose Ensemble.