Canada

8 articles related to Canada:

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   Sea Shanty

   Barrett's Privateers: origins and meaning of famous drinking song

   Barrett's Privateers, released in 1976 by Stan Rogers—Canadian folk musician and songwriter whose musical career was…

   August 7, 20221 comment

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   Film

   Concerning Hobbits: portraying home with the penny whistle

   Concerning Hobbits is a two-minute tune originally composed by Canadian composer Howard Shore for Peter Jackson's 2001…

   May 31, 2021

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   Music Theory

   5 songs featuring Dorian mode

   Out of all seven diatonic scales, the major and minor scales have been the two most prevalent in Western music…

   August 30, 2020

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   Music Theory

   Popular songs using Lydian mode

   In Western music, the vast majority of classical compositions and popular songs are written using only two diatonic…

   July 26, 20206 comments

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   Marching Band

   Entrance of the Gladiators: military march by Julius Fučík found world fame as a screamer music for circuses

   Entrance of the Gladiators is one of the world's most famous marches which has cemented itself in public awareness by…

   February 26, 2020

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   Music Theory

   Classic examples of the Phrygian mode through the music eras

   From Middle Ages to modernity, Western music has been largely based on diatonic scales that organize seven notes into…

   August 24, 20194 comments

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   Santour

   Azam Ali's magnificent vocal journeys through languages

   In recent decades, the mixing of styles and cultures in popular and classical music has grown into quite a common trend…

   December 28, 2018

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   Songwriter

   The three acts of Lonnie Johnson' blues

   Lonnie Johnson (1889—1970) was a prolific American musician, singer, and songwriter, and one of the first major blues…

   October 18, 2018