Some have suggested that getting a hit song by sampling a previous hit some and backpacking on its awesomeness just feels like... cheating. To them, it seems as if the success is less pure - a "sloppy seconds" experience, if you will, however indiscernible said sloppiness may be. The problem is this ignores the history of, well, music. If Mozart and Beethoven had tape recorders and turntables, I have no doubt they would have skipped piano lessons for the studio. Great composers have "borrowed" melodies from others since the term "composer" existed. That's the way we learn music. [...]
" Fun short pieces " 01. Mozart - "L'ho perduta... me meschina!" Le nozze di Figaro, K.492 Act Amoureuses / Patricia Petibon (2008) 02. J.S. Bach - Italian concerto in F major andante BWV 971 Bach: Italian Concerto; Partitas Nos. 1 & 2; etc. / Glenn Gould (2006) 03. Tomaso Albinoni - Oboe Concerto in D minor Op.9 No.2 - 3 Allegro Albinoni: Oboe and Violin Concertos (Apex, 2002) [...]
Filed under: Around the World Márta Sebestyen is straining to hear a little as she gets on the phone from her Budapest home. Her young son, she explains, is "doing horrible music next door." Seems he's a DJ/producer wannabe who crafts his own mixes and mix tapes but has no interest in traditions stretching back more than a few, oh, minutes. "The child of a folk singer!" Sebestyen laments. And indeed, she is one of the leading voices of folk music in Hungary. Her [...]
Filed under: Around the World Spinner.com : We've all watched the conflicts in the Caucasus nation of Georgia in recent days with great sadness, and perhaps with some perplexity. Listening to music from the region may not help alleviate the sense of sorrow. Like the perhaps better-known music... Read more
Filed under: Around the World Spinner.com : We've all watched the conflicts in the Caucasus nation of Georgia in recent days with great sadness, and perhaps with some perplexity. Listening to music from the region may not help alleviate the sense of sorrow. Like the perhaps better-known music... Read more
Q: What other kinds of misconceptions about electronic music are there? It's enormously misunderstood by people who play conventional music or who play conventional instruments. It's not justified. There's just not aware. They're threatened by it and they don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do with their more traditional form of creating sound and music. It's an old story. It especially relates to jazz, I imagine for rock people, it's the same idea. People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to [...]
. Lowly Lily of the Vale, To me you tell a useful tale: You say, "Be pretty as you will, Yet modesty is lovelier still. - A Little Girl to Her Flowers in Verse . ( Gutenberg project ) ~|~ " Happy Little Girl List " 01. Joanna Newsom - Bridges and Balloons The Milk-Eyed Mender (Drag City, 2004) 02. Bela Bartók - No.19 Romance: Assai [...]
I never was, am always to be, No one ever saw me, nor ever will And yet I am the confidence of all To live and breathe on this terrestrial ball. . " Before Halloween Night Ends " 01. Philip Glass - Islands Glassworks (2003) 02. J. S. Bach - Wo soll ich fliehen hin (The Hilliard Ensemble) Morimur (ECM Records, 2001) 03. J. S. [...]
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