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Q&A What are the advantages of knowing the theory behind serialist compositions?

1 answer · posted 8mo ago by VLDR‭ · last activity 8mo ago by MattheasBoelter‭

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Q&A Ought laypeople be able to imagine a tone row's transformations in their head, without hearing or playing them?

1 answer · posted 8mo ago by VLDR‭ · last activity 8mo ago by DonielF‭

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

1 answer · posted 8mo ago by VLDR‭ · last activity 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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

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

0 answers · posted 7mo ago by VLDR‭

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

0 answers · posted 9mo ago by VLDR‭ · reopened 7mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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

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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?

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

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Q&A We love the Second Viennese School, but daughter's practice of Boulez's music is wearying us. How can we appreciate Boulez? [closed]

0 answers · posted 5mo ago by VLDR‭ · closed 16d ago by Mithical‭

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

0 answers · posted 5mo ago by VLDR‭ · edited 5mo ago by VLDR‭

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Q&A 'differential' vs 'different' : as adjectives, not nouns.

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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"?

0 answers · posted 6mo ago by VLDR‭

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

0 answers · posted 7mo ago by VLDR‭ · edited 6mo ago by VLDR‭

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

1 answer · posted 7mo ago by VLDR‭ · last activity 2mo ago by gmcgath‭

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

1 answer · posted 7mo ago by VLDR‭ · last activity 9d ago by elemtilas‭

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Q&A Why no International Piano Competitions (as lofty as the Chopin) for less popular composers of ≥ 3 Piano Concertos, like Rautavaara?

0 answers · posted 4d ago by VLDR‭ · edited 4d ago by VLDR‭

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Q&A Why does Cathay Pacific's 2018 boarding music feel "Chinese"?

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Q&A Why does Korean Pop feature so much backbreaking, grueling dancing?

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