Category: Music
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A Music Lesson
The more you know, the more you know you don’t know. This great truth was brought home to me while discussing the tempo of waltz music for the Second Annual Michaelmas Dance with my pianist brother. I had sent him weeks before a list of 6 waltzes, and he dutifully practised them according to the…
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An argument for live music
In his astonishing yet compelling essay “A Different Drummer,” Michael Platt reviles the advent of amplification and its driving of music out of cozy rooms into enormous halls. Like other 20th century technology, the electrification of music has had unexpected implications for human ways of living. Platt writes: The electrification of the traditional folk and…