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Visualizing the Symphony, with Hannah Chan-Hartley

Visualizing the Symphony, with Hannah Chan-Hartley

by Andrew Bishko | Aug 23, 2017 | Interviews, Active Listening, Career

The TSO’s Hannah Chan-Hartley’s concert programmes expertly combine colour, graphics, and text to enrich the live music experience for concertgoers.

How to Clap in Time

How to Clap in Time

by Sabrina Peña Young | Aug 7, 2017 | Rhythm, Active Listening, Musicality

Clapping in time? Easy right? Well, if it’s not easy for you – you’re not alone! The good news is that clapping in time is learnable, valuable, and fun!

Exploring Classical Music: The Modern Era, Part 2

Exploring Classical Music: The Modern Era, Part 2

by Sarah Tyrrell | May 1, 2017 | Active Listening, Dynamics, Genres

Modernist composers went beyond writing new music, to reinventing music itself. Listen to their astonishing expressions of psychosis, memory, and faith.

Exploring Classical Music: The Modern Era, Part 1

Exploring Classical Music: The Modern Era, Part 1

by Sarah Tyrrell | Apr 24, 2017 | Active Listening, Genres

Spanning two world wars, the advent of the automobile, airplane, and radio – the Modernist Era’s revolutionary music reflects a massive cultural upheaval.

Open Your Ears to Jazz

Open Your Ears to Jazz

by Sabrina Peña Young | Apr 18, 2017 | Jazz, Active Listening, Improvisation

Born the streets of New Orleans, jazz grew through dance, entertainment and pop to become high art, touching nearly every popular music style on the planet.

Exploring Classical Music: The Romantic Era, Part 2

Exploring Classical Music: The Romantic Era, Part 2

by Sarah Tyrrell | Apr 10, 2017 | Active Listening, Genres, Instruments

Driven by new audiences hungry for sensation, the heroic Romantic Era celebrity composers drove performers to unsurpassed levels of instrumental virtuosity.

Exploring Classical Music: The Romantic Era, Part 1

Exploring Classical Music: The Romantic Era, Part 1

by Sarah Tyrrell | Mar 27, 2017 | Genres, Active Listening, General

Way beyond candlelit dinners, Romantic-era composers fascinated new audiences with extreme musical tales of love, death, nature, and the supernatural.

4 Strange Cover Songs You Have to Hear for Yourself

4 Strange Cover Songs You Have to Hear for Yourself

by Musical U Team | Feb 28, 2017 | Active Listening, General, Instruments | 0 comments

One of the best ways to make a name for yourself is to cover songs by other artists. An even better (and possibly, even more fun!) way to get noticed is to be creative in your arrangement.

Check out how these artists put their own strange twists on some popular hits.

Exploring Classical Music: The Classical Era, Part 2

Exploring Classical Music: The Classical Era, Part 2

by Sarah Tyrrell | Feb 27, 2017 | Genres, Active Listening, Key

Classical Era composers mastered musical form to frame their myriad thoughts and emotions. Learn how to listen for form in the music of Beethoven and Haydn.

Open Your Ears to the Blues

Open Your Ears to the Blues

by Sabrina Peña Young | Jan 23, 2017 | Genres, Active Listening

While not currently a chart-topping genre in it’s own right, blues saturate the roots of rock, pop, hip-hop, R & B and nearly every popular music worldwide.

Open Your Ears to Pop

Open Your Ears to Pop

by Sabrina Peña Young | Jan 9, 2017 | Genres, Active Listening, Melodies

What makes pop pop? While drawing from several other genres, like rock, hip-hop, country, and R & B, pop music has its own musical and cultural qualities.

Open Your Ears to Rock Music

Open Your Ears to Rock Music

by Sabrina Peña Young | Jan 2, 2017 | Genres, Active Listening

Spanning a half-century of musical mayhem, rock genres range from Surf to Heavy Metal to Punk, Grunge and beyond. Find out what makes rock, well, rock.

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