Ingredients of Music: Notes and Rests
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 …
Ingredients of Music: Why Music Theory Matters
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 …
Composer’s Corner: The Story of Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre
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 …
Composer’s Corner: The Story of Leonard Bernstein
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 …
Composer’s Corner: The Story of Kassia of Constantinople
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 …
Composer’s Corner: The Story of Olivier Messiaen
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 …