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Category: Understanding Music

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Ingredients of Music: Notes and Rests

Ingredients of Music: Notes and Rests

March 12, 2021 March 12, 2021

Welcome to the second installment of our series on music theory basics, Ingredients of Music. In the first post, we talked about why the study …

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Ingredients of Music: Why Music Theory Matters

Ingredients of Music: Why Music Theory Matters

February 26, 2021 February 26, 2021

My piano teacher loved music theory. I mean, REALLY loved it. He actually had previously taught theory at the college level, and he walked through …

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Composer’s Corner: The Story of Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre

Composer’s Corner: The Story of Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre

January 30, 2021 January 30, 2021

Introducing…the child prodigy you’ve probably never heard of. In this series, we’re discovering the stories of the best composers in Western music history and why …

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Composer’s Corner: The Story of Leonard Bernstein

Composer’s Corner: The Story of Leonard Bernstein

January 22, 2021 January 22, 2021

He was a pianist, composer, educator, humanitarian, and one of the first conductors to be featured on television. Leonard Bernstein was a man with a …

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Composer’s Corner: The Story of Kassia of Constantinople

Composer’s Corner: The Story of Kassia of Constantinople

January 15, 2021 January 15, 2021

Meet Kassia of Constantinople: a poet, composer, abbess…and the earliest woman composer whose music still exists. In this series, we’re discovering the lives of the …

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Composer’s Corner: The Story of Olivier Messiaen

Composer’s Corner: The Story of Olivier Messiaen

November 20, 2020 November 20, 2020

Olivier Messiaen was a French composer who wrote a hauntingly beautiful quartet…while he was imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp. In this series, we’re exploring …

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