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  • Pixinguinha LP

    Pixinguinha: Brazilian saxophonist who established choro music as a pop genre

    Pixinguinha, born Alfredo da Rocha Viana, Jr., was an iconic figure in Brazilian popular music who defined its new forms...
  • Birdwatching hideouts in Liminganlahti by Estormiz

    Cantus Arcticus: bird calls arranged for orchestra by Einojuhani Rautavaara were taped in Northern Finland

    Cantus Arcticus is a three-part orchestral work created by the eminent Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara with the...
  • Lakme LP

    The Flower Duet of Lakmé: the love drama of an Indian girl and a British soldier made airborne

    The Flower Duet is a famous operatic duet which popularity has spread far beyond interests of classical music audience...
  • Adrian Belew's Twang Bar King LP

    Adrian Belew's spellbinding guitar tricks saturate prog music with the sounds of space

    American multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Adrian Belew managed to extract entirely extraordinary sounds from his...
  • Zefiros by Sandro Botticelli

    Zefiro Torna: famous madrigal by Monteverdi lauds the west wind that brings spring

    Originating in the 14th century as a poetic form, the madrigal is a short poem of lyrical content. During the...
  • Cesária Évora

    The morna: essential music of the Cape Verde archipelago reached mainland thanks to Cesária Évora's voice

    With roots in the 18th-century Cape Verde, the morna music is a vital and culturally definitive genre of the archipelago...
  • Glass Armonica by Robert Comploj

    Mozart and Tom Waits wrote music for the glass armonica which was rumored to cause mental health damage

    The glass armonica is one of many curious instruments that came into use with small ensembles during the transition from...
  • The vihuela by Marcos Kaiser

    Orphénica Lyra: the largest collection of vihuela music introduced by Miguel de Fuenllana

    Vihuela is a Renaissance-era musical instrument similar to a modern mini guitar. It is believed that the first vihuelas...
  • Sitar designed by Nodu Mullick

    The tapped harmonics of Balaram Pathak's sitar

    Balaram Pathak was not only one of the most talented Indian classical musicians of the 20th century but also the mind...
  • Phrygian Soldiers at Pararli

    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...
  • Emmanuel Chabrier by Edouard Manet

    Spanish motifs contributed by Emmanuel Chabrier to the rise of Impressionism in France

    Emmanuel Chabrier was a French composer of the Romantic era whose legal career forced him to study and write music...
  • Jacob do Bandolim by José Ramos Tinhorão

    Jacob do Bandolim: amateur musician who instilled mandolin fashion throughout America

    Jacob Pick Bittencourt, nicknamed Jacob do Bandolim or Mandolin Jacob, was a Brazilian musician and composer working in...
  • Investigation with XRF in National Library Berlin

    Mass in B minor: how to separate original scores of J.S. Bach from his son's later edits?

    The Mass in B minor is one of the latest works of J.S. Bach in which he set a liturgical Latin text to music. Clocking...
  • Women playing the koto and shamisen, ca. 1880s

    First compositions for koto presented out of court by Yatsuhashi Kengyō in the 17th century

    Yatsuhashi Kengyō was a 17th-century Japanese composer who created a new concept of koto music, introducing the...
  • Andy Warhol by Jack Mitchell

    Songs for Drella: the minimalistic tribute to Andy Warhol that united his beloved artists for the first time since 1960s

    As an absolutely iconic figure in the visual art movement known as pop art, Andy Warhol had a profound influence on the...
  • Duo Art and Pianola Rolls

    Pianola: the reproducing piano as the first Hi-Fi player and preservation capsule for recitals on piano rolls

    Long before the recording era, mankind was already looking for ways to play music automatically. The earliest known...
  • Joaquim Malats by Ramon Casas

    Serenata Española by Joaquim Malats: the piano piece that conquered guitar world

    Serenata Española, written by Spanish piano virtuoso Joaquim Malats, has been the most popular work among guitarists for...
  • Muthuswami Dikshitar

    Muthuswami Dikshitar: South Indian composer and poet who embellished Carnatic repertoire 200 years ago

    Muthuswami Dikshitar was the most influential Indian composer representing Carnatic tradition which is most present in...
  • The San Lorenzo Palimpsest

    Rich music collection of the Trecento times recovered from Florentine palimpsest

    It is difficult to imagine, in the current digital world, the serious difficulties associated with recording any...
  • Ali Farka Toure's The River LP

    The resonance of African tribal heritage in Ali Farka Touré's guitar

    Ali Farka Touré was one of the first Malian songwriters to arrange African folk music for acoustic and electric guitar,...

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