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Edit Post #281952 Initial revision almost 3 years ago
Question Why can't a pop singer on stage, wearing earpieces, hear someone right next to her?
Please see https://youtu.be/P6i0Js-aw4?t=184. This is Tiffany Young singing Not Barbie, on her Lips on Lips tour in San Francisco, dated March 15 2019. As her fan (to her right) tries to speak to her, Tiffany appears to say, and I'm reading her lips (pun intended) >I can't hear you. ![](htt...
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Question Why does Korean Pop feature so much backbreaking, grueling dancing?
My daughter's been listening to KPop, like Girls' Generation Into the New World. You can watch the Ballad versions, with NO dancing, at the Tokyo Dome for the 2011 Girls Generation Tour, and Girls and Peace concert in Seoul. You can see their racking dancing in other parts of this same Tokyo Dome per...
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Question 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 theme from the finale of Dvorak's Symphony No. 9, but with a different rhythm. Are there any ot...
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Question Why does Cathay Pacific's 2018 boarding music feel "Chinese"?
I hope it's obvious to you that this music sounds "Chinese". Why though? Does it use a Major Pentatonic scale? parallel harmony in fourths and fifths? portamento? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOuD-mxTO58 Cathay Pacific is a Hong Kong airline. I'm unaffiliated with them and have no conflict...
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Question 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-pacific-online-advert. Another clip at https://adsspot.me/media/tv-commercials/cathay-pacific-airways-m...
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Question 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 music did not obviously "take sides," leaving his music in an ambiguous limbo onto which people could eas...
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Comment Post #280506 @MonicaCellio Thanks. Can you please re-open? I edited the post.
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Question 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 levels of extroversion! Pierre Boulez, Mravinsky, Claudio Abbado tend to stay still and not make faces. ...
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Question 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, beginning with conducting the world premiere of the composer's Fifth Symphony "Symphony No. 5 (Shostakovic...
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Question Did Xenakis intend his gratingly dissonant music to express his personal hardships?
I enjoy, and have no problems with: 1. Xenakis's pieces for Solo Instruments (esp. tonal pieces like Six chansons pour piano), Percussion (Ensemble), or String (Ensemble). 2. no more than a handful of Xenakis's ensemble music like Jonchaies, Keqrops, Pithoprakta. 3. most (Post)Modernis...
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Question Ought laypeople be able to imagine a tone row's transformations in their head, without hearing or playing them?
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 must hear or play them repeatedly to memorize them. Thus I ask the question in the title out of curiosit...
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Question What are the advantages of knowing the theory behind serialist compositions?
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". 41 min 30 s. His transcript sometimes differs from, and this quote doesn't appear in his, Course Gu...
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Question 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 New Conductor Style? on JSTOR > In confronting the cliché that he was not a good conductor, the auth...
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Question 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 purports to play some random notes on a grand piano. >Students and everybody else are sayin...
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