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Comment Post #290355 Found an article shedding some light on the matter. https://www.classicalacarte.net/Production/Production_09_17/LH16_01_18_ARG.htm "Hipocondrie is certainly a strange name for a concerto, but, as Mathieu Dupouy explains in his notes, hypochondria referred to a variety of emotional states, includi...
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4 months ago
Comment Post #289274 After some research, I've decided my question isn't meaningful. There is a broad variety of music for the saltarello, some faster and some slower, and even the time signature isn't consistent. It's the dance step and the fact that it's a couple dance that makes it a saltarello. The tarantella is more...
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5 months ago
Comment Post #286577 Some of the gifts that she says she doesn't want are also Spanish, so I don't think the exotic source of the boots is the point here.
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almost 2 years ago
Comment Post #286566 A "Spanish boot" is a torture device. The term has been applied to several instruments of torture that operate on different principles. The boot may be tightened with screws, with or without spikes inside, or it may be porous and have boiling water or other hot liquids poured on it. http://www.art...
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almost 2 years ago
Comment Post #286503 There is no requirement, either by Cage or by performance tradition, for a conductor to "gesture and hand wave." I wouldn't even describe this video as "hand waving"; he holds up his hands still and occasionally changes their position. He does rush the tempo, though. :) The video is only 3 minute...
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almost 2 years ago
Comment Post #286274 Not to mention a bit from "The Barber of Seville" and the folk songs "Au clair de la lune" and "Ah, vous dirai-je, maman" (aka "Twinkle, twinkle little star").
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almost 2 years ago
Comment Post #286146 I just had to figure this out for myself in MuseScore, and I couldn't find anything that explained how to do it in a satisfactory way. I hope that discussion of music software is considered OK here and that this is useful. Feel free to edit my response if there are formatting issues.
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about 2 years ago
Comment Post #285184 Another candidate is Giovanni Sammartini, who was born about 15 years after J. S. Bach but sounds more like Johann Christian Bach. He wrote 3-movement symphonies for string orchestra with continuo. They may have been the earliest symphonies (in the classical-era sense) that are still performed.
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over 2 years ago
Comment Post #284620 It gets complicated there. Bach advocated not equal temperament, but a system known a bit awkwardly in English as "well temperament." It's suitable for playing in all keys, but the fifths aren't all equally detuned. There seems to be historical uncertainty about just when equal temperament displaced ...
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over 2 years ago
Comment Post #284416 I ordered a singer's mask from Broadway Relief Project. It's a bit expensive but is nicely constructed and lets me take deep breaths without inhaling the mask.
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over 2 years ago
Comment Post #284573 What question are you asking? Is it what motivates the organizers of piano competitions, or is it what is "logical" to do? Much of your question is devoted to recordings, which have a different set of purposes and economic incentives from competitions. It's difficult to give an answer to your questio...
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over 2 years ago
Comment Post #284416 | If you stand far enough away from anyone else, the mask is completely unnecessary. Current CDC information says that the risk is largely from aerosols that spread through an indoor space, not droplets that fly from one person to another. Six feet has never been a magic number, just a guideline. ...
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over 2 years ago
Comment Post #284203 It's certainly an unusual instrument. An interview says that Maria Franz plays the "ravanhata," more often spelled "ravanahatha," which is an old Indian instrument with somewhat similar characteristics. But the instrument she plays looks very different from the traditional ravanahatha. It may be one ...
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over 2 years ago
Comment Post #281297 The main motif sticks to the pentatonic notes do, re, mi, sol, and la. As a whole, though, the music doesn't. It doesn't sound especially Chinese to me, but that may be what you're hearing as Chinese.
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over 2 years ago