What Can Classical Music do for You?
Understanding the Circle of Fifths is a useful tool in navigating Western art music. It’s taught in every theory class, and I use it often in both teaching and performing. But until recently, I never considered its relationship to the Read More …
March is Music in Our Schools Month. Sometimes when I take on a private student who has previously given up on, or has never had music lessons, they can very fearful. Grown men who tower over me tremble when they Read More …
Thanks to some recently-published research, Vincente Lusitano is beginning to be retrieved from obscurity. Not only a composer skilled in the style of his day, he was also a music theorist and wrote a treatise on the art of singing. Read More …
In the old days, many of us had to walk around with books on our heads to prove to our parents that we had good posture. I never succeeded at this because the top of my head is a little Read More …
A few weeks ago, I asked: what music is there in the remote key of A-flat minor? One piece I discovered was the Fugue in A-flat minor, WoO 8, by Johannes Brahms, on YouTube. The 7-flat key signature is hardly Read More …
What I have never put on my About Me page is that I started out as a premed major. Those of you who follow me on social media know that I have completed a course on COVID-19 from the London Read More …
Last week, I logged in to the Naxos Music Library, as I try to do every weekday, and looked through the new releases. I noticed a new recording of The Veil of Pierrette by Ernst von Dohnányi. The author of Read More …
Dett is another of the composers fortunate enough to receive more recognition, so he has a lot of entries: Wikipedia AfriClassical A website devoted to Dett Entries in the Library of Congress AfroVoices BlackPast and, of course, his scores available Read More …
Lafitte is another of those well-studied composers, as least as far as his biography is concerned. Here’s a roundup of resources: Wikipedia AfriClassical BlackPast Diesis&Bemolle (in Italian) Radio Habana Cuba (in Spanish) Foreign Musicians in Paris IMSLP Nothing on Read More …
Sancho has a Wikipedia Entry, an article published in Black History Month 2018, an article at the British Library, and numerous other articles written because he was the first person of color to vote in a British election, and because Read More …
