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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 ...
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.
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...
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...
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:...
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...
Please compare and contrast Pierre Boulez conducting Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring? Here's him conducting l'Orchestre de Radio-Canada in 1963 https://youtu.be/QF1pTRR8l20 vs. Orquesta Filar...
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 ...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
At 0:24, as this comment correctly REaffirms Love how serious the conductor is, putting his hand up for all the time Kirill Petrenko starts his handwaving. Why? His handwaving and gestures fe...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
This video uses an instrumental version, which https://www.aha-music.com/identify-songs-music-recognition-online/rec/04d5ec380b0c7a48dc815be0ae3c6e81#record-div identifies as Ocean by "The Nights A...
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...
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...
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...
