"I'm not that great of a guitar player or harmonica player or singer, but I can construct a song pretty decently," the ...
But, counterintuitive though it might seem, I don’t think sound is always a helpful way to understand genre. I’m a composer and conductor in the field that’s broadly known as Western classical music, ...
Last week was a tough one for music nerds. I use that phrase with love and kinship — I am (like you are, perhaps) the kind of listener who loves music so much that it hurts. And that kind of passion ...
Mr Pärt is often grouped with Minimalist composers such as Philip Glass and Steve Reich. But he calls his compositional style tintinnabuli, from the Latin word for “little bell”; it features multiple ...
When it comes to what makes a song the kind of timeless classic that people will sing along to for decades to come, it can be hard to pinpoint what makes one tune more popular than another...but ...
In one of John Lennon‘s final interviews with David Sheff, months before his death in December of 1980, he revealed a song Paul McCartney had written for the Beatles that he wished he had penned, ...
Warner wasn’t another actor who was dabbling in music. He was serious about his craft, first taking an intensive course at Musicians’ Institute before continuing his studies in bass and musical theory ...
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"Vande Mataram" song is primarily a fusion of Sanskrit and Bengali. The first two stanzas, beginning with “Vande Mataram, ...