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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...
I was introduced to the song "Dust Bowl Dance" by Mumford and Sons through this video, about the character Percy from Campaign 1 of the D&D show Critical Role (spoilers in video). The song fits...
I am not an ethnomusicologist so I can only give a speculative, rather than an authoritative answer, but by examining the particular qualities of the instruments you describe we can come up with a ...
I recently discovered Boots of Spanish Leather, a 1963 song by Bob Dylan through Joan Baez's cover in Any Day Now (1968). Its lyrics really moved me, so I tried to understand them deeply. The Wiki...
There's no standard color scheme for guitar tab notation. The publisher is somehow trying to differentiate what's marked in red, but it could be anything. The part in your illustration is puzzling...
The tarantella and saltarello are traditional Italian dances, both usually notated in a fast compound duple time such as 6/8. The steps are different, but the musical difference isn't so clear. The...
A friend and I were having a conversation about the similarity of music to speech, and the importance of phrasing with silence or resolution to allow reflection on what has been heard. Is there any...
Consider a piece of music that one is trying to analyze (let's say chord progressions), but he is struggling with doing so. He can tell that the section works, but he can't tell how. Would a quest...
Yes, but with limits I don't see why this would be a problem, provided the question is specific enough - asking for an analysis of an entire (e.g.) opera is a bit on the 'too much' side, in my opi...
Great Music of the Twentieth Century (2018), by Robert Greenberg B.A. music (magna cum laude) from Princeton, Ph.D. music composition from U.C. Berkeley. Lecture 14 "The World Turned Upside Down"....
I can't speak to Stravinsky specifically, so perhaps this is not an answer to your question, but you also ask: How could a skilled composer like him be unskilled at conducting? Composing, pla...
They are earpieces that the singer listens to the backvocals and their own voice using them. So with the voices playing in their ears they can't hear any voice from the crowd.
I've just come across the following in Ernest Hutcheson's The Literature of the Piano, and it's the closest thing to an answer I've found. In truth he [Haydn] was a greater originator than eithe...
There are a number of pieces in classical music called "perpetuum mobile" or "moto perpetuo." Their characteristic is an even, rapid stream of notes up to the end. Probably the best known example i...
MuseScore allows moving a line of lyrics up or down. Start by selecting a word in the last line of lyrics. Right-click on it and chose "Select > More..." This will bring up a dialog like the fo...
If I want to insert a verse in the lyrics of a MuseScore document, e.g., adding a verse that goes above all the others, how do I move the existing verses to make room for it? Obviously it can be do...
I have a little music that I don't know it's name or the artist. So, I was thinking about to grab it here as a question as may someone will know it's name or at least help finding it's name. So, m...
Schoenberg's "emancipation of the dissonance" referred to escaping the idea that dissonances are acceptable only if they're resolved. I don't see any political dimension in it. Democracy is even fu...
All Part of the Magic! A conductor has many jobs, one of which is expressing her own artistic interpretation of the music to the performers. She knows the composer, his life story, the impetus for...
What are the best techniques for singing while masked? Completely or partially uncovering while singing defeats the purpose, since projecting our voices increases the chance of spewing pathogens in...
Dance Music Particularly traditional western dance music. One thing that becomes pretty clear when you're hearing a set of tunes played for dancing, at least in the British-American tradition, is...
I've been listening to the Second Viennese School for 5 years now, and I love their music. Yet whenever I listen to a tone row, especially a new one, I can't hear its transformations in my head. I ...
"Different guidelines" is one of the motivating use cases for categories. (See Rigorous Science on Scientific Speculation, for example, or Challenges on several communities.) It sounds like this ...
Yeah... this is due to the fact that those have to be manually updated for every community we spin up at the moment and nobody had done that here yet. I've gone through and updated it for Music. U...
Please consider these two excerpts: J. S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio 2, Chorale: Brich an, o schönes Morgenlicht W. F. Bach: O Wunder, wer kann dieses fassen cantata, Chorale: O liebes Kind Th...
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