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Swing Music

January 14, 2010

Get ready to swing with Roland Muzquiz, master percussionist with the Dallas Wind Symphony and someone who can help us to learn what swing really is.  Take it away, Roland!

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The Pipe Organ with Michael Conrady

December 31, 2009

You will find a new featured video on the home page: a conversation with Michael Conrady about the pipe organ. Michael is the music director at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Dallas.  You’ll also meet him in the discussion of Johann Sebastian Bach (Unit 7) in the “Discovering Music” course.   Michael may be young, [...]

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Listening for the Familiar and Unfamiliar

December 21, 2009

We live in a visual world.  We constantly analyze what we see on a sophisticated level, but most of us are not nearly as skilled in listening.  That’s why many of us prefer music in styles that are already familiar.  Opening our ears and mind up to new kinds of music seems harder. No surprise [...]

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Comparing the Classical and Romantic

December 8, 2009

This chart is included in the workbook for Discovering Music: 300 Years of Interaction in Western Music, Arts, History, and Culture. Watch for more reference guides like this one in the near future. Eighteenth Century Enlightenment Nineteenth Century Romanticism Music is an expression of balance and reason. Music expresses the three “E’s”: emotion, enthusiasm, ecstasy. [...]

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Classical Tweets

December 2, 2009

Do you Tweet?  Recently I’ve been exploring Twitter.  And while the 140-character-limit is frustrating, and the anonymity and pace are daunting, I’m intrigued by what one can observe. What are people tweeting about Classical Music, for example.  And not just the words “classical music,” but also Klassische Musik, musica classica, musique classique, Klassieke muziek, etc.—it’s [...]

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