Music - Q&A

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Why does Cathay Pacific's 2018 boarding music feel "Chinese"?

0 answers · last activity 9 days ago by Technologically illiterate‭

scales

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What genre of music is "Gobi Moon", composed by Dave Randall after 2014?

0 answers · last activity 10 days ago by Technologically illiterate‭

genre

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Did Schoenberg consider dodecaphony in terms of democracy and freedom?

0 answers · last activity about 1 month ago by Technologically illiterate‭

modernism

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How can I learn to hear an octave-displaced popular piece, as easily as the popular piece?

0 answers · last activity about 1 month ago by Monica Cellio‭

modernism

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Why do some composers gesticulate wildly, while others reserve their composure?

0 answers · last activity about 1 month ago by Technologically illiterate‭

conducting

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Why did Mravinsky refuse to conduct the premiere of Shostakovich's Thirteenth Symphony in 1962?

0 answers · last activity about 1 month ago by Technologically illiterate‭

conducting

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What are the advantages of knowing the theory behind serialist compositions?

1 answer · last activity about 1 month ago by MattheasBoelter‭

serialism

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Ought laypeople be able to imagine a tone row's transformations in their head, without hearing or playing them?

1 answer · last activity about 2 months ago by DonielF‭

serialism

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Why was Stravinsky alleged to be a lousy conductor?

1 answer · last activity 2 months ago by Monica Cellio‭

conducting

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Did Xenakis intend his gratingly dissonant music to express his personal hardships?

0 answers · last activity 2 months ago by Technologically illiterate‭

modernism

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Is there any genre of music (or a song) that eschews silence or rests within a piece?

0 answers · last activity 2 months ago by Sigma‭

genre rests

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DANTE networking vs. traditional sound

0 answers · last activity 2 months ago by laserkittens‭

sound-equipment dante

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Why do some conductors quiver their body or grimace? [closed]

0 answers · last activity 3 months ago by Monica Cellio‭

conducting

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"Properly" naming rotations of unusual scales?

2 answers · last activity 3 months ago by celtschk‭

scales terminology

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(How) does bow shape affect playing the bowed psaltery?

0 answers · last activity 3 months ago by Monica Cellio‭

bowed-psaltery

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Why do bass guitarists avoid open strings and double bassists don't?

0 answers · last activity 3 months ago by Jirka Hanika‭

double-bass bass-guitar

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Why is Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 considered one of the most technically challenging piano concertos?

1 answer · last activity 3 months ago by 10 Rep‭

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