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20 Oct 2020 12 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel
Ernst Krenek's 1950 "Fifth Piano Sonata", Opus 121, presents challenges to layman and musician alike that, rather than diminishing its appeal, affirms its timeless worth. To those at the avant-garde of artistic inspiration and creation, the unprecede...
![A Tone Row From Ernst Krenek's "Fifth Sonata for Piano" Opus 121 [PART 1]](https://cdn.publish0x.com/prod/fs/cachedimages/1830583310-5a26ca8ab673605a11c499779f6f1ac2cb4ffddd1a9ac18fdbf74c99fe105f3f.png)
19 Oct 2020 6 minute read 1 comment PhilipDaniel
Known for its warm and reverberant timbre, the viola d'amore ("viol of love") occupies the tenor tessitura of the viol family. Ordinarily, the instrument's bowed strings number seven, although this may vary, with six strings being nearly as common. A...
19 Oct 2020 2 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel
The considerable oeuvre of the 16th-century English composer John Sheppard hardly deserves its current obscurity, though it may pale in comparison with the sumptuous and timeless sacred music of his better-known older contemporary Thomas Tallis. Admi...
![Notes on the composer John Sheppard [Shepherd] (c.1520-c.1560)](https://cdn.publish0x.com/prod/fs/cachedimages/1830583310-1a28b7514bf8ace87eebaf6108877dae5d5679aa2484d4a8225bd743aff914d4.png)
18 Oct 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Alexica Adams
Some of you, if not all, have probably never heard about the Steelpan before and if you haven't, then that is okay. The creation of this instrument has a back story from way back to the early 1880s when colonialism was a thing because who didn't wan...
14 Oct 2020 9 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel
An Aequale for French Horn duet in the form of a two-part invention, an homage to the soberly "neoclassical" counterpoint of twentieth-century master composer Paul Hindemith. The archaic (though now partly revived a...
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14 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments cMasta
Life, like music, can be repetitive sometimes. While in graduate school, I resolved a four-year cycle of ups and downs in my life. It kind of still holds true. Remember though that if you expect to see something in the data, you're a lot more likely...
13 Oct 2020 2 minute read 0 comments CryptozNewb
I've kind of lost track of how many weeks I've been at this. Pulling myself up by my bootstraps as they say, from playing on the streets for a few dollars a day to making demos and even landing a couple of gigs in the acoustic tent at a local festiva...
13 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments CryptoDavey
“Footloose” is a song co-written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins. It was released in January 1984 as the first of two singles by Loggins from the 1984 film of the same name (the other one being “I’m Free (Heaven Helps the Man...
13 Oct 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Conscious Fitness
Feelin' Great is a song about the high vibe good mood of gratitude and appreciation we can find ourselves in when we focus on the positives in life. Every day we wake up, we have the opportunity to give it our best and to appreciate what we have. Br...
12 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments CryptoDavey
“Need You Tonight” is the first single to be released worldwide from Australian rock band INXS‘s 1987 album, Kick, as well as the fourth song on the album. It is the only INXS single to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. It also achieved their hig...
