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Piazzolla's bandoneón played vital part in the worldwide tango music revival
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992), Argentinian composer known for his brilliant tangos, naturally played bandoneón, the most...
LUTE
Atmospheric collaboration of medieval and modern underground on Only Lovers Left Alive
For his post-modern tale of vampires trying to find purpose in their immortal lives, Jim Jarmusch employs his own group...
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...
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....
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
LUTE
Da Vinci's painting process depended on music
Leonardo Da Vinci was a master of many skills: architecture, astronomy, painting, sculpture, mathematics, anatomy,...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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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, a...
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