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Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields is a flexible English chamber orchestra, founded in 1959 by John Churchill and Neville Marriner as a...

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Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings released as a single item on a CD, vinyl, audio tape, or digital distribution. Early albums...

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Ali Akbar Khan

Ali Akbar Khan was an Indian classical musician known for his expertise in playing the sarod. He was born in Shibpur, Brahmanbaria,...

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Allauddin Khan

Allauddin Khan was an Indian sarod player, multi-instrumentalist, and composer, who became one of the most notable music teachers of the...

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Andalusian cadence

The Andalusian cadence is a popular chord progression often used in genres like rock and flamenco. It involves four chords that descend...

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Andreas Scholl

Andreas Scholl is a German countertenor, known for his specialization in Baroque music. Born into a family of singers, he began his musical...

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Andres Segovia

Andrés Segovia was a Spanish guitarist, guitar teacher, and editor of guitar music. He was born on February 21, 1893, in Linares, Spain, and...

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Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was an Italian Baroque composer, virtuoso violinist, and impresario. His influence on Baroque music was widespread...

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Authentic Cadence

Authentic cadence is a musical term referring to the ending of a phrase, which can be perceived as a rhythmic, melodic, or harmonic change....

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Balamuralikrishna

Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna (1930-2016) was an Indian Carnatic musician who began his career at six and gave over 25,000 concerts...

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Band

The term band is commonly used to refer to a group of musicians who play together to create music. Typically, a band consists of a...

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Bass Guitar

The bass guitar is a plucked string instrument that is a member of the guitar family. It has a longer neck and scale length than an electric...

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BBC Symphony Orchestra

The BBC Symphony Orchestra is a renowned British orchestra founded in 1930, making it the first permanent salaried orchestra in London....

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Berlin Philharmonic

The Berlin Philharmonic is a world-renowned orchestra based in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in 1882 by 54 musicians who broke away from...

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Big band

A big band is a type of musical ensemble that originated in the United States in the early 20th century. It typically consists of a large...

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Bird Songs

Here you can listen to the nature sounds recorded during different seasons in a mixed forest, including bird songs, cricket choruses, and...

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is an American singer and songwriter whose career has spanned over 60 years. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest...

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Bob Marley

Bob Marley was a Jamaican singer, musician, and songwriter, considered one of the pioneers of reggae. Marley became known as a Rastafari...

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Cadence

A musical cadence is a sequence of chords that mark the end of a musical phrase or section. Cadences can be categorized into two types:...

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Camille Saint-Saens

Camille Saint-Saëns was a French composer, organist, conductor, and pianist who lived during the Romantic era. He was a musical prodigy,...

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Cello

Cello—also known as violoncello—is a string instrument of the violin family. It originated around 1660 from the bass violin and has since...

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Choir

A choir is a musical ensemble consisting of a group of singers who perform together, typically led by a conductor. Choirs can be found in...

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Clarinet

The clarinet is a woodwind instrument with a cylindrical bore and a flared bell. It is part of the largest woodwind family and comes in...

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Classical Guitar

The classical guitar—also known as the nylon-string or Spanish guitar—has a rich history dating back to the late 19th century in Spain. It...

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Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy—a renowned French composer and pianist—was active during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Considered one of the most...

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Collaboration

Collaboration in music brings together artists to create unified and unique pieces of music. It allows for the exploration of different...

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Composer

A composer is someone who writes music. The term originates from Latin, meaning "one who puts together." Composers can create music in...

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Contemporary Composer

A composer is someone who writes music, especially in the Western classical tradition or as a profession. The term originates from Latin,...

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Crickets

Crickets are fascinating orthopteran insects with distinctive sounds. They are closely related to bush crickets and grasshoppers. Crickets...

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Daniel Barenboim

Daniel Barenboim is an Argentine-born classical pianist and conductor. He was active from the 1950s to the 2020s. Barenboim served as the...

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David Bowie

David Bowie—an English singer-songwriter and actor—emerged as a transformative force in 20th-century music. Active from the 1960s to the...

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Deceptive Cadence

A deceptive cadence is a harmonic progression in music that creates a temporary sense of closure but then unexpectedly shifts to a different...

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Drums

A drum kit—also known as a drum set or trap set—is a percussion instrument ensemble comprising drums, cymbals, and auxiliary instruments,...

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Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was a prolific American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader. Based in New York City from the 1920s, he...

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Electric Guitar

The electric guitar, a composite chordophone, requires external amplification for audibility. It employs pickups to convert string...

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FEMALE VOCAL59
FERNANDO SOR5
FIDDLE5
FILM40
Fleetwood Mac5

FLUTE

The earliest example of a Western flute was discovered in the Hohle Fels cave near Ulm, Germany. The five-finger flute, made from the bone...

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FRANK SINATRA6
GEORGE GERSHWIN5
Grateful Dead6
GUITAR32
Harmonic Sequence8
HARP5

HARPSICHORD

A stringed keyboard instrument developed during the 14th and 15th centuries, the harpsichord had remained in wide use until the early 19th...

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HENRY PURCELL5

HERBERT VON KARAJAN

One of the most famed conductors of the 20th century, Herbert von Karajan ruled over the Berlin Philharmonic and European classical...

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HESPERION XXI7
JACQUELINE DU PRE5
JEAN SIBELIUS5
JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY5
Jim Morrison8
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH22
JOHN WILLIAMS (Composer)5
JOHN WILLIAMS (Gitarist)9
JORDI SAVALL10
JOSEPH HAYDN5

JOSQUIN DES PREZ

Josquin des Prez was perhaps the most renowned European composer between Guillaume Dufay and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, and is now...

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JULIAN BREAM

The talented English guitarist and lutenist, Julian Bream, was born in a musical family. Bream's father encouraged his son to learn the...

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KING CRIMSON6
LED ZEPPELIN12

LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

The London Philharmonic Orchestra was established by Sir Thomas Beecham in 1932, and since then has been headed by many...

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London Symphony Orchestra9
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN13

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Maihar Gharana12
MALE VOCAL179
MANDOLIN5
Manuscript7
Marijuana5
MAURICE RAVEL7

MEDITATION

It is no secret that music can guide one to a whole other level of relaxation during spiritual practices and exercises such as meditation or...

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MIAN TANSEN5
Music Theory46
Muthuswami Dikshitar5

Nature Sounds

Here you can listen to the nature sounds recorded during different seasons in a mixed forest, including bird songs, cricket choruses, and...

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Neville Marriner6
OBOE10

ORCHESTRA

The word originates from the Greek 'orchēstra' which was the circular part of the ancient theatre where the actors, dancers, and...

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Organ5
PETER GABRIEL5
PIANO52
PINK FLOYD9
Plagal Cadence7
Poetry25
Raja Ravi Varma7
RAVI SHANKAR15
Robert Plant5
SAROD9
SAXOPHONE12
Secondary Chord7
Shiva5
SITAR12
SONGWRITER186

SOUNDCLOUD

MusicTales strives to maintain working links for any shared content.  Support all artists that you liked on their SoundCloud page!...

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Sviatoslav Richter5
SYNTHESIZER13
TABLA DRUMS10
TECHNOLOGIES15
THE BEATLES27
THE DOORS14
Tom Waits6
Tonicization11
TRADITIONAL5

TRUMPET

The earliest-known example of a metal trumpet dates to 2000 years BCE. Egyptian in origin, it was a military signal instrument sounding...

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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

Ralph Vaughan Williams was an English composer in the first half of the 20th century who is widely credited for establishing the new...

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Violin

The violin is admittedly the most known and prevalent musical instrument in the world that evolved during the Renaissance period. From the...

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Wind5
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART13
Yehudi Menuhin6

YOGA

It is no secret that music can guide one to a whole other level of relaxation during spiritual practices and exercises such as meditation or...

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