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The First Black Person In British History With A Name And A Portrait

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slow_down_motion and grahamviolin

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Research Says Playing an Instrument or Singing Helps Brain Health | My Modern Met

By Madeleine Muzdakis on February 6, 2024 Photo: ORSON/Depositphotos Time to pick up an instrument! Music is a powerful medicine for the soul—and as recent research suggests, the brain. Particularly as one ages, keeping an active, varied mental world alive … Continue reading

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CARNAVALESCO (@sitecarnavalesco) | The closing of Portela’s participation…

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Música del Mundo (@musica_delmundo) | The Kazakh dombra

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A Brief History of 20th Century Classical Music (Tetris-style)

Where the timeline of classical music history was more or less a line, a series of relatively consistent and coherent approaches one after another, classical music in the 20th century was more like a complicated game of Tetris, a bunch … Continue reading

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Mozart: What Shaped The Life Of The Prodigy? | Classical Destinations | Perspective

Telling of child prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Explore Europe’s most beautiful cities while enjoying the music written within their boundaries. […]

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Gibran Alcocer – idea 10 ( bandura cover )

 

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Çifteli: This microtonal instrument changed the way I think about music

The Çifteli sample I made can be downloaded here: https://www.decentsamples.com/product… It is meant to be used with Decent Sampler, a free plugin that can be downloaded here: https://www.decentsamples.com/product… If you’re curious about microtonal composing, there’s a nice explainer here: https://blog.discmakers.com/2017/08/m… … Continue reading

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The Last Repair Shop

Once commonplace in the United States, today Los Angeles is by far the largest and one of the last American cities to provide free and freely repaired musical instruments to its public schoolchildren, a continuous service since 1959. From Academy … Continue reading

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