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The Future of Art Music
The notation of musical instructions for performance has existed for thousands of years, going back to cuneiform tablets in Sumer. I cannot tell you how that ancient composer’s work was intended to be interpreted, nor how those performing it approached these instructions, but we still understand this concept today. Performers rehearse to convert the composer’s […]
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Prologue: Inspiration
I have been around music all of my life. When I was little I used to love what I called, “The Chips Ahoy Song,” which you may know better as Sing Sing Sing. I’m pretty sure there are some wonderful home videos of me dancing around to the drom solos. Years later, I ended up in […]