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 […]
symphonies Price would compose before she died in 1953 and one of three that we have
A. Kori Hill A few posts ago, we discussed signifyin(g): a formal process in Black music where older material is quoted and transformed into a new context. You can hear […]
This practice extends far back into the medieval period, and we have examples that
After Christopher Columbus made his first trip across the Atlantic Ocean, Spain and other European countries began to colonize the Americas. Spanish music had a big influence on Latin American […]
married European forms with Indigenous sounds, creating folk music traditions that have
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xylophone, chimes and gong. Beethoven’s Ninth Many generations of concertgoers have
Growing up in Chicago, Margaret Bonds was surrounded by music. Her mother, Estella Bonds, was an organist and fixture of the South Side’s classical music scene. Her composition teachers included […]
Margaret may have written her cantata for Christmas, but she and Langston were thinking
If you love reading about composers, compositions, and music traditions, you’ve likely enjoyed something written by a music scholar. These folks go by many names and use many tools to study all these things. Not all musicological topics are historical, and not all music scholars are musicologists. So today, I want to break down for you the three major disciplines of academic music study people pursue when they want to write about music history and culture: musicology, ethnomusicology, and music theory.
Together, music theorists, ethnomusicologists, and musicologists have given us books
There are SO many great music scholars out there. So many folks that make it easy for us to access information on music and its history. That’s the cool thing about music scholarship: it doesn’t stay the same. Because there’s always something new to uncover or reinvestigate. Â
Well, Gershwin, like Beethoven (and many other composers), didn’t have the neatest
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.
Did you think an opera could have an aria where a character sings about their love
A. Kori Hill Unsuk Chin is a composer based in Berlin, Germany. She was born and grew up in Seoul, Korea, where she studied piano and initially wanted to be […]
But her family didn’t have enough money to get her piano, let alone keep paying
Even if you don’t know it, you’ve probably heard it. I’m talking about “Hallelujahâ€� from George Frideric Handel’s oratorio, Messiah. Celebrating the triumph of the Christian savior, Jesus Christ, over […]
entire oratorio, you’ll definitely program “Hallelujah.� But I’m sure you have
