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Q&A How do I coordinate a polyrythm between players via music notation?

The question is mostly music notation-based. I can have multiple players doing their own rhythms no problem. But if I want to end the piece when all of the timings sync back up, how do I do that v...

0 answers  ·  posted 5mo ago by purplenanite‭

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

One reason (that's not the sound) is that it's very common for bass guitarists to be working in a situation where a tune needs to have the key changed to suit a vocalist's range. If they have lear...

posted 7mo ago by Spamalot‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by Spamalot‭

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Q&A How much ear training is required to identify chords and their progressions, without perfect pitch and reading any scores?

I'm impressed by Kevin Wang's ability to identify chords aurally. He graduated with a BM in Piano Performance from the Rochester School of Music in 2016. I'm assuming that he has never seen t...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 3y ago by TextKit‭

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Meta Can we have a separate category for identification requests?

"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 ...

posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Music is highlighted as $SiteName in Help Center

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...

posted 3y ago by Mithical‭

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

I enjoy, and have no problems with: Xenakis's pieces for Solo Instruments (esp. tonal pieces like Six chansons pour piano), Percussion (Ensemble), or String (Ensemble). no more than a ha...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by TextKit‭

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Q&A Why was Stravinsky alleged to be a lousy conductor?

I'm assuming that Stravinsky was healthy, could see and hear well, and had no personality disorders. How could a skilled composer like him be unskilled at conducting? Stravinsky as Pioneer of a Ne...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Why can't a pop singer on stage, wearing earpieces, hear someone right next to her?

They are In Ear Monitors (as opposed to monitors as speakers on the stage floor pointed at the performer) and they are commonly custom-molded to completely fill the outer ear. The performer can ty...

posted 7mo ago by Spamalot‭

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Q&A What does "hipocondrie" mean as a kind of composition?

There is a piece by the Bohemian Baroque composer, Jan Dismas Zelenka, called "Hipocondrie à 7 Concertanti in A major," ZWV 187. Attempts to find out what "Hipocondrie" means have run into nothing ...

1 answer  ·  posted 12mo ago by gmcgath‭  ·  last activity 5mo ago by gmcgath‭

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Meta How can we grow this community?

Ummmm, like, the site is nice, but there are some problems. 1- Old Questions If you take a look at the question page, the last question was asked two months ago (unless Mithical posted a question...

posted 2y ago by Kevin Shenouda‭

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Q&A How is the title of "Dust Bowl Dance" relevant to the song?

Not really sure, but the site Song facts says: The song title alludes to a severe drought that affected the South Western Great Plains region of the United States during the 1930s. The drought b...

posted 2y ago by Kevin Shenouda‭

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Meta Who should the temporary moderators be?

As we have set up communities here on the Codidact network we've been appointing temporary moderators. Ultimately, of course, we want each community to choose its own moderators; we've been doing ...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Music is highlighted as $SiteName in Help Center

While visiting any help center article (e.g FAQ Or How to ask a great question), There is a bug as Music is highlighted as $SiteName. Preview:

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Q&A How else is Girls' Generation "Into the New World" related to Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World"?

I've been listening to Into the New World (song) since 2007. But I didn't realize until today that Mindblown. : SNSD the opening phrase in ITNW contains the same sequence of notes as the first ...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭

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

I love this piece, and I've been craving similar music! The vocals feel like yipping, but liberating and uplifting! I don't know how to embed video in http://www.splitmusic.co.uk/placements/cathay...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 3y ago by TextKit‭

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Q&A What does red mean in a tab?

I'm no sheet music reader, although I can somewhat understand it, so I'm often relying on tabs if I want to play an already-existing song more accurately. I eventually ran into something like this:...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by gmcgath‭

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

The emboldened sentence below isn't evidenced on Wikipedia. Is it true? If so, why? Yevgeny Mravinsky - Wikipedia The music of Dmitri Shostakovich was closely associated with Mravinsky, beginni...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭

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Meta Should posting on Meta affect reputation?

When we launched this community, we did not yet have the ability to set different reputation grants for different categories. We've had this for a while but we failed to follow up before now, sorr...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Why can't a pop singer on stage, wearing earpieces, hear someone right next to her?

Because it's not an earpiece, it's an earplug. It's designed to block out noise like what construction workers wear, to prevent themselves from going deaf due to repeated exposure to loud music.

posted 1y ago by desbest‭

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Q&A Is there any cultural background in Bob Dylan's "Boots of Spanish leather" final desire?

This is a good question. In one sense, "Spanish boots of Spanish leather", has a far-away romantic mysterious suggestiveness, at least to American's who haven't traveled much. Bob Dylan had proba...

posted 2y ago by CodeFarmer‭  ·  edited 2y ago by CodeFarmer‭

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Q&A Anyone know what sample library might have a cleared Alvin Cash - Get Away breakbeat?

Anyone know what sample library might have a cleared Alvin Cash - Get Away breakbeat? Cleared of course, and not illegally. Just searching by the name doesn't bring any legal sources up, but it m...

0 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by mavavilj‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by mavavilj‭

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Q&A What does "hipocondrie" mean as a kind of composition?

From all I've been able to tell since I posted the question, the title has no meaning at all beyond indicating a mood (which at the time meant something more like melancholy rather than imagined il...

posted 5mo ago by gmcgath‭

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

At 0:20, Duke University Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Music R. Tarry Todd Education Ph.D., Yale University 1979 M.Phil., Yale University 1976 B.A., Yale University 1974 pur...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 2y ago by TextKit‭

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoZdwam7wgw is based on just one piece, Mahler's Symphony 2, and a sample size of one from which we can't conclude anything. But I've noticed these wildly different ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by elemtilas‭

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Q&A Did Schoenberg consider dodecaphony in terms of democracy and freedom?

Can anyone substantiate the asserveration below? Why do some people dislike Schoenberg so intensely? : classicalmusic That didn't happen, I think, for two reasons. First, as I mentioned, his mus...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by gmcgath‭

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