Tag: music
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Ghost Artists – The Enshittification of the Music Business
This article in Harper’s Magazine about the phenomena of “ghost artists” capturing real attention (and taking real money) from already-underpaid artists is both fascinating and disheartening. The general idea of ghost artists is both depressing and fairly simple to understand: Spotify, the rumor had it, was filling its most popular playlists with stock music attributed…
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Stravinsky and the Orchestra Hit
One of the coolest music history tidbits I’ve heard in recent memory – Stravinsky and the Orchestra Hit.
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(FREE) Online Resources for Learning Music Theory
Learning music theory is an easy way to improve many aspects of playing ANY instrument.
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New MuseScore Version Brings Aesthetic Improvements
A new version of free notation software MuseScore adds quite a few welcome aesthetic improvements.
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What to Expect at (Some) College Auditions
A look at one possible approach to college auditions in the time of COVID.
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Music, College, and COVID
If you’re a college music student (or will be soon), I hope you’ve read this article: An Impossible Choice: Music Majors, COVID-19, and an Uncertain Future. I’m a bit late to it (it was originally published on August 17), but the authors do a great job of distilling the mental and monetary calculations that have likely…
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Beethoven + Statistical Analysis =…
A statistical analysis of Beethoven attempts to find what made his music great.
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The Arts and Social Justice
An excellent article from Jason Haaheim about how art and arts orgs are more important now than ever.
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Warm-up (and learn to practice) with Solo Training
In a previous blog entry I talked about some projects that I and others are using to fill up the time due to the cancellation of all upcoming performances and most teaching. In that blog entry (which you can find here), I talked about going through several technique books that I have and adding or…
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ScanScore Review: Scan and Edit Your Digital Music
SmartScore is WIndows software designed to convert and edit sheet music to digital PDFs.