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defining the difference between musical notes and ordinary noises

"Every day you will hear millions of sounds and only a few of them will be musical notes. Usually, musical notes are created deliberately fr...
Classical Music Finds Ways to Reach (Way) Out

Last fall, during his consultancy to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the celebrated cellist Yo-Yo Ma visited the Illinois Youth Center, a co...
Opening your ears to classical music

People wishing to expand their musical horizons beyond pop may find the decision to explore classical music daunting. That's to be expect...
From Mozart

"Standing above all other giftedness legends, of course, [is] that of the mystifying boy genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, alleged to be an in...
do, re, mi

"Actually it was ut, re, mi, etc., that the Italian monk Guido of Arezzo invented. He got the names of the notes - ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la -...
Rag Time

"Ragtime might have been percolating throughout the black ghettos since the mid-1890s, but the style's first million-seller was achieved by ...
Art by Igor Stavinsky
"The Washington Memorial March,"

It was on this day in 1929 that a new march by John Philip Sousa was played for the first -- and last -- time until almost 60 years later. ...
Noted in Passing From Life in Legacy

Phelps (Catfish) Collins (66) rhythm and blues guitarist, a veteran of James Brown’s J. B.’s, Parliament-Funkadelic, and his younger brother...
Classical label Decca relaunches, eyes future stars

The classical music label Decca on Monday celebrated its relaunch as Decca Classics, promising to seek out new stars and ensure that the gen...

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold Auerbach

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