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Obviously you don't need it. You don't need to have an instrument. Technically, you don't need to do anything. The point of "performing" 4'33" is to create an atmosphere. To do this, performers gen...
Some bass guitar players seem to avoid playing open strings in most situations, reportedly for the reason of the sound. Open strings are generally not avoided when playing double bass, although th...
Years ago I acquired a bowed psaltery, with a bow shaped something like this: Every psaltery bow I've seen "in person" has this arched shape. Bows for other instruments (like violins) have a fl...
I recently watched the film Shine (1996, by Scott Hicks). It depicts the life of the pianist David Helfgott. As Wikipedia explains in Shine (film): In London, David studies under Dr. Cecil Park...
Welcome to the Codidact site for Music! We're glad you're here and we're excited to see what you will build. This community is starting "from scratch", without importing Q&A from other sites,...
Yes, yes we can. Any raw link to YouTube or Spotify (that is, the URL on its own, without any descriptive text) will now turn into an embed when you load the page. Behold: https://www.youtube.com...
(Not sure whether it's too early to request this, but here goes anyway!) One of the suggestions in the Music proposal on Meta was to have separate categories for certain topics. I would like to re...
Consider the following musical scale, with a root of A: A — B — C — D — E — F — G# — A This is, quite clearly, A Harmonic Minor. Let me rewrite the above scale in terms of tone (step) differ...
I think I can now answer this, based on research I've done since posting the question. The underlying issue is that it's mathematically impossible to make all keys exactly right with any one tunin...
Is it possible to have YouTube and SoundCloud links embed directly into the body of a post? It is likely that many posts will make use of such links, and it will make for a nice user experience. W...
It seems that a Ukrainian Dorian scale exists which matches the scale you wrote out. In music, the Romanian Minor scale or Ukrainian Dorian scale or altered Dorian scale is a musical scale or th...
As we start on building a new community here together, we're bound to find some sticking points. Those might be bugs, new features you need, things you need support with... whatever they are, the C...
Composers of the classical era, especially Mozart and Beethoven, considered certain keys appropriate for certain moods. What reasons did they have for this? There are practical reasons for choosin...
Instruments with parallel strings, a resonating body, and a neck over which the strings are stretched appear in many cultures. The oud is an Arabic instrument, from which the European lute develope...
I don't feel qualified to answer your first question, as I'm just very inexperienced with serialism. I'm going to spend my time answering your second question. Isn't a point of music theory to p...
Joseph Haydn is frequently called "the father of the symphony." He made important advances in symphonic composition, but he wasn't the first to write symphonies in the classical form. The title ar...
I doubt this is something the average person can do. In my experience, most people can recognize a scale as being major or minor; people with some music background can tell you the relative major t...
Is Music an appropriate place for questions about digital music collaboration: things like midi, lilypond, abc notation, audio formats?
Speaking personally (i.e. don't ascribe more authority just 'cause I'm staff), I think such questions should be welcome. They're about making music; I don't see anything in the community's scope t...
Codidact's communities have a lot of great content that is helping people on the Internet. Our communities are small, though, and sustainable communities depend on having lots of active, engaged p...
I don't hear much of a resemblance. If nothing else, the W. F. Bach is in quadruple time, while the J. S. Bach is in triple time. But to answer your broader question: Copying motifs and tunes from...
For obvious reasons, it would be helpful to be able to write out sheet music in our posts. There's already the MathJax plugin used on other Codidact sites, and TeX has a plugin called MusixTex whi...
I'm not an expert on classical music, but I have tried playing this piece and, yeah, it was an epic fail. Rachmaninoff is known for making big jumps in the hand. It isn't that prevalent in this pi...
I came across this video and would like to know more about the instrument the woman is playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF9mtpw365c (Starting at 0:16.) The instrument is shaped sort of l...
Tradition! That bow you've got for your psaltery is an attempt at making a bow in the ancient style. Very early bows were highly arched and sometimes had handles. A psaltery bow kind of looks some...
