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   Violin

   The sad beauty of slow air in Archibald MacDonald of Keppoch

   'Slow air' refers to the type of the Irish traditional music, first brought to a wider audience by the publishings of…

   April 25, 2018

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   Classical Guitar

   Thomas Morley's legacy in English Renaissance tradition

   The Renaissance composer and organist Thomas Morley (c.1557-1602) is best known as the father of the English madrigal…

   April 24, 2018

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   Songwriter

   Ellington's classic song established swing as a jazz form

   It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) is a 1931 composition by Duke Ellington with lyrics by Irving Mills,…

   April 23, 2018

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   Orchestra

   Gustav Holst's famous folk suite was dedicated to his students

   Gustavus Theodore von Holst, a highly original and inventive composer, was born in England in 1874. Holst was appointed…

   April 22, 2018

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   Orchestra

   The misty seascape embodied in Mendelssohn's surging overture

   The Hebrides, also called Hebrides Overture or Overture to the Lonely Isle, is an orchestra piece by Felix Mendelssohn,…

   April 21, 2018

6. 

   Hardanger Fiddle

   You can't stay still when you hear the reel

   The Shetland islands, located between Norway and Scotland, has always had their folk music at the crossroads of two…

   April 20, 2018

7. 

   Classical Guitar

   The scent of magnolia permeating Joaquin Rodrigo's concerto

   It may come as a revelation that Joaquin Rodrigo wasn’t a guitarist, despite his contributions to the guitar repertoire…

   April 19, 2018

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   Technologies

   Placements of hit tracks on albums rooted in vinyl era

   Establishing the track number for the album's title song might be one of the most vital things in production…

   April 18, 2018

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   Collaboration

   Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass find a colorful meeting point for European and Indian classics

   Almost three decades have passed since Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar collaborated and released the work Passages - a…

   April 17, 2018

10. 

    Songwriter

    Who is the true architect behind The House of the Rising Sun?

    The authorship of The House of the Rising Sun can not be accurately determined to this day, since the song is a folk…

    April 16, 2018

11. 

    Wind Ensemble

    Mozart's rewritten serenade inspired by street musicians

    The Serenade in E-flat major exists in two versions: a sextet of two clarinets, two bassoons, and two horns, and an…

    April 15, 2018

12. 

    Oboe

    Corelli's famous violin piece rearranged for oboe three centuries later

    One of the seminal figures of early Baroque, Arcangelo Corelli, was the master of violin which supremacy in the…

    April 14, 2018

13. 

    Lute

    Da Vinci's painting process depended on music

    Leonardo Da Vinci was a master of many skills: architecture, astronomy, painting, sculpture, mathematics, anatomy,…

    April 13, 2018

14. 

    Orchestra

    Defining Gershwin rhapsody was conceived on a train trip

    Rhapsody in Blue is one of the most performed of all American concert pieces, and its opening clarinet glissando is the…

    April 12, 2018

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    Classical Guitar

    Folk dances illuminate the heritage of Gaspar Sanz, the Baroque guitar maestro

    Composer, guitarist, organist and priest, Gaspar Sanz studied at the University of Salamanca, where he was later…

    April 11, 2018

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    Collaboration

    World musicians Kronos Quartet destroy the shackles of genre

    Since its founding in '70s, the Kronos Quartet has become the foremost herald of chamber music, successful at breaking…

    April 10, 2018

17. 

    Guitar

    The irony of Cuban love song in the work of trova-musician Compay Segundo

    Chan Chan was written in 1987 by Cuban singer Máximo Francisco Repilado Muñoz Telles, known as Compay Segundo. The song…

    April 9, 20181 comment

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    Orchestra

    Beethoven was inspired by Goethe’s rhythmic poetry

    From 1809 to 1810, Beethoven composed the overture to Goethe’s play Egmont, depicting the life of the count of Egmont,…

    April 8, 2018

19. 

    Cello

    The surviving pearl of Mademoiselle Paradis, contemporary of Mozart

    Maria Theresia von Paradis was a contemporary of Mozart and Haydn. She achieved significant glory as both a composer…

    April 7, 2018

20. 

    Collaboration

    Metallica with San Francisco Symphony: fresh & heavy atmosphere of modern opera

    It seemed like Metallica were running out of ideas at the end of the millennium. However, in 1999, they released S&M, a…

    April 6, 2018