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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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Q&A DANTE networking vs. traditional sound

I've been seeing that many traditional sound systems have switched from long runs of audio cable to using networking cable using the DANTE system. Is this a proprietary system or open standard? Doe...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by qohelet‭

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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 9mo ago by General Sebast1an‭  ·  last activity 9mo 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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Q&A Why do bass guitarists avoid open strings and double bassists don't?

I think part of it is sound/timbre and part efficiency/intonation. Much easier on upright to stay in tune when you use open strings. On either electric or upright, an Eb at the 6th "fret" of the ...

posted 10mo ago by TLL‭

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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 3y 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 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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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 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 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 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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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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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 2y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Mithical‭

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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 ...

0 answers  ·  posted 4mo ago by gmcgath‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by gmcgath‭

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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 2y ago by elemtilas‭

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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 10mo ago by desbest‭

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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 2y ago by gmcgath‭

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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 1y ago by CodeFarmer‭

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Q&A In Kim Taeyeon's "I", why do the C7 and Six-Four Chords conceal the chord changes?

I don't understand the analysis and dialogue, starting at 15:04, between Kevin Wang BMus (Eastman) in Piano Performance and Jenny Yunyi Ji BMus (Eastman), MMus (San Francisco Conservatory of Mu...

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

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Q&A In Taeyeon Kim's "I", why does the Leading Tone or Seventh sound like the Tonic?

I'm assuming that Jenny Ji hasn't hoodwinked us by covertly consulting the score, before reviewing this song in this Youtube video. To improve my ear training, I deliberately refrained from readi...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭

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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 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 2y 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 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Which of Pierre Boulez's composition(s) are considered unlistenable, and/or the (Modernist) Emperor's New Clothes?

I can brook listening to Boulez's 3 Piano Sonatas, Le Marteau sans maître, Pli selon pli, and Répons. I've listened to Boulez's OTHER compositions THE PAST 20 YEARS, but nothing else of his resonat...

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

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Meta We love the Second Viennese School, but daughter's practice of Boulez's music is wearying us. How can we appreciate Boulez?

Mithical closed https://music.codidact.com/posts/281953 "as not constructive" on Sep 30, 2021. Mithical commented Unfortunately, this questions seems extremely opinion-based; asking how to learn...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by TextKit‭

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Q&A Why do you need sheet music of John Cage's 4′33″ to perform it?

At 1:45, Kirill Petrenko has the paper score for 4'33" opened on his conductor stand. But use of sheet music feels guileful and uncandid for 4'33". Can't a competent conductor or musician "conduc...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by gmcgath‭

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