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to “practice” her instrument in the traditional way: she didn’t want to play the same
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to “practice” her instrument in the traditional way: she didn’t want to play the same
William Grant Still wanted to put the sound of the blues into a symphony. His Afro-American Symphony is centered on a bluesy theme. Still took that theme and did something […]
Each movement in the Afro-American Symphony is based on the same theme.
Ragtime music is truly African-American music. It combines rhythms that were brought to this country by slaves, with musical forms brought over to the United States from Europe. Ragtime uses […]
Piano rags follow the same form as which type of music?
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Schubert wrote his Marche Militaire for piano four hands — two people playing the same
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An octave begins and ends on the same note.
A. Kori Hill In the summer of 1933, a symphony was premiered in Chicago’s Symphony Hall. It was written by a woman who’d called the city home for only six […]
the third movements of her symphonies, Price worked with two precedents at the same
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That’s the cool thing about music scholarship: it doesn’t stay the same.
The operas discussed here are not set in 18th century France or a mythological country. One is set in 21st century Cincinnati, Ohio; the other in 19th century South Carolina. Both deal with topics you may not expect from an opera: four high schoolers prepping for college admission essays; an enslaved Muslim man finding his way in pre-Civil War America. But what they tell us is that opera is only limited by what we decide it can express.
Omar debuted at the famous Spoleto Festival in 2022, in the same city where ibn Said
A. Kori Hill Repetition is a funny thing–it can be boring or exciting. It can make you feel like you’re going nowhere or rediscovering something familiar. You can feel all […]
By repeating the same motives in different contexts, Glass builds and maintains tension
A. Kori Hill You’re typically called a songwriter if you write pop, folk, hip-hop, R&B or rock music. If you write classical music, you’re typically called a composer. But did […]
Or both at the same time? That’s the case with Yvette Janine Jackson.