What Did Ancient Greek Music Sound Like?: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s ‘100% Accurate’
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7 Things Every Musician Should Do Before Releasing a Single
1. Set a timeline and be patient
2. Don’t promote until your fans can take action
3. Find the hook and make everything swirl around it
4. Find different ways to repeat the message
5. Get all your ducks in a row before the release
6. Consider another angle to entice beyond the primary hook
7. Be ready to do the grunt work
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An Interactive Map of Every Record Shop in the World
You can recover the romance by traveling to any one of the thousands of shops worldwide that are catalogued and mapped on VinylHub, a crowd-sourced “endeavor,” Ron Kretsch writes at Dangerous Minds, “to create an interactive map of every brick-and-mortar record store on Earth, a perfect resource for the world-traveling vinyl obsessive.”
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23-Year-Old Eric Clapton Demonstrates the Elements of His Guitar Sound (1968)
Why Do We Love Music?
To understand music is to recognize place. Life is a soundtrack. This too is accounted for by neurochemistry, as Levitin writes.
Each time we hear a musical pattern that is new to our ears, our brains try to make an association through whatever visual, auditory and other sensory cues accompany it; we try to contextualize the new sounds, and eventually, we create these memory links between a particular set of notes and a particular place, time, or set of events.
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John Coltrane’s Handwritten Outline for His Masterpiece A Love Supreme (1964)
Recorded in December of 1964 and released in 1965, A Love Supreme is Coltrane’s personal declaration of his faith in God and his awareness of being on a spiritual path. “No road is an easy one,” writes Coltrane in a prayer at the bottom of his own liner notes for the album, “but they all go back to God.”
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Maria Anna Mozart Was a Musical Prodigy Like Her Brother. Why Did She Get Erased from History?
Milo describes Nannerl’s fate: “left behind in Salzberg” when she turned 18. “A little girl could perform and tour, but a woman doing so risked her reputation…. Her father only took Wolfgang on their next journeys around the courts of Europe. Nannerl never toured again.” We do know that she wrote music. Wolfgang praised one composition as “beautiful” in a letter to her. But none of her music has survived.
The question may remain an academic one, but the life of Nannerl has recently become a matter of popular interest as well, not only in Milo’s play but in several novels, many titled Mozart’s Sister, and a 2011 film, also titled Mozart’s Sister, written and directed by René Féret and starring his daughter in the titular role.
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