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Music and Culture: Blogging, etc.
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An anthropological look at the music of the 20th Century and beyond. Saturday, February 14, 2009. Long story short, this is a blog by an armchair musicologist talking about music. Writing has always helped me clarify my thoughts, which usually lead to improvements in my own compositional output. Maybe something interesting might come out of it. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Modernism and the Cold War. Clapping in Between Movements. Improvisation Exercises for Musicians. View my complete profile.
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Music and Culture: Modernism, Postmodernism
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An anthropological look at the music of the 20th Century and beyond. Wednesday, April 15, 2009. Can be seen as a form of Marxist social criticism through the language of music. Alban Berg (whom Adorno studied music with) makes his committment to the proletariat working classes fairly clear in his opera,. Where the subject matter is primarily about the hardships that the poor have to suffer through in order to survive within Western society. And the Daily Show. In classical music, Postmodernism is probabl...
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Music and Culture: Clapping in Between Movements
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An anthropological look at the music of the 20th Century and beyond. Saturday, February 28, 2009. Clapping in Between Movements. Alex Ross has an interesting post written about this subject here. There's kind of a funny quote:. Or whatever" is in his own words, not mine.). It seems like the "no applause during concerts" thing is a modern. Being possible without this type of tradition to keep the audience in-line. Meanwhile, jazz and other types of popular musics took advantage of amplification in order t...
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Ryan's Improv Blog: May 2009
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Regularly updated blog with recordings of Ryan's improvisations. Wednesday, May 13, 2009. Updates here and there. Some updates that were backlogged for a while:. Starts kind of mellow, then picks up, then some singing:. My singing is not very good, but hey, who cares right? This one starts pretty fast then mellows out at the end:. Grooveshark is still having some problems, but looks like they're getting around to fixing them. Wednesday, May 6, 2009. But I kind of like how it turned out, so here it is:.
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Ryan's Improv Blog: Variation Exercise
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Regularly updated blog with recordings of Ryan's improvisations. Wednesday, May 6, 2009. Well this was supposed to be for my other blog, Improvisation Exercises for Musicians. But I kind of like how it turned out, so here it is:. Improvisation Exercises for Musicians - Variation Exercise. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Improvisation Exercises for Musicians. Updates here and there. View my complete profile.
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Music and Culture: April 2009
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An anthropological look at the music of the 20th Century and beyond. Wednesday, April 15, 2009. Can be seen as a form of Marxist social criticism through the language of music. Alban Berg (whom Adorno studied music with) makes his committment to the proletariat working classes fairly clear in his opera,. Where the subject matter is primarily about the hardships that the poor have to suffer through in order to survive within Western society. And the Daily Show. In classical music, Postmodernism is probabl...
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Music and Culture: February 2009
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An anthropological look at the music of the 20th Century and beyond. Saturday, February 28, 2009. Modernism and the Cold War. I think that in a few years time, it will become impossible to talk about modern music without acknowledging its connections with the Cold War. Recent books such as Who Paid the Piper? Show that there is considerable interest. Here you can see the CIA totally admitting to it. The irony of the situation was that in order for the artists to see themselves as mavericks, they had to b...
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Music and Culture: The Myth of the Genius
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An anthropological look at the music of the 20th Century and beyond. Sunday, April 5, 2009. The Myth of the Genius. The art that a genius would create had to evoke something greater than mere explanation, pushing the limits of human understanding toward a higher, transcendental state of existence. (In this sense, J.S. Bach would not have been considered a genius as well, because he was able to explain his ideas about counterpoint and harmony through his pedagogical works such as. The Art of Fugue.
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Music and Culture: Celanese Ads from the Financial Analysts Journal, 1963-64'
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An anthropological look at the music of the 20th Century and beyond. Wednesday, August 12, 2009. Celanese Ads from the Financial Analysts Journal, 1963-64'. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Celanese Ads from the Financial Analysts Journal, . Improvisation Exercises for Musicians. Los Angeles, California, United States. View my complete profile.
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