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GratefulDisciple

yst 10:09

Instrument of the day: Cello da spalla which looks like and played like a huge viola. Example: Prelude from Bach's Cello Suite No. 6 by Sergey Malov (from the Netherlands Bach Society's All of Bach project).

Rory Alsop

Jul 14 18:54

Always happy to unfreeze a room when I notice, or when someone asks

Rory Alsop

Apr 10 15:24

Congratulations to @Tim - our first user to hit 200k reputation!!!

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Todd Wilcox

Mar 12 14:54

After 30+ years, I still can't even touch Dragonforce :)

Aaron

Jan 29 03:09

C.P.E. Bach - Solfeggietto in C minor (H 220, Wq. 117: 2)

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Aaron

Sep 5, 2024 17:02

Consider the below arrangement of the beginning of "Twinkle, twinkle, little star", and try singing it. The second half of the segment should feel very strange, because all of the syllables are in the "wrong" place.

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Aaron

Nov 20, 2024 01:47

@MartinSleziak I find this stuff fascinating. I played around with SEDE a bunch when I first joined but then kind of forgot about it. Your queries reminded me how much info is in there.

Martin Sleziak

Nov 18, 2024 02:18

Top askers and answerers of the HNQs.

Rory Alsop

Nov 5, 2024 09:35

For those with crossover interests, the Video Production election still has no candidates...

Aaron

Oct 13, 2024 03:12

Aaron

Sep 5, 2024 17:01

@Lecifer In theory, yes, one could place words and syllables wherever one wants, including ways that contradict the normal pronunciation of the word. However, this can give a very strange sound, so would primarily be used for a special effect of some kind.

GratefulDisciple

Sep 5, 2024 13:04

@Bass One of my long term project is to take up organ again, and produce recordings using Hauptwerk.

GratefulDisciple

Sep 4, 2024 22:47

When I was still a church organist it's my yearly tradition to play a pipe organ transcription of the closing final chorale + orchestra, Wir setzen uns mit Tränen nieder, as a postlude for the Good Friday service.

Aaron

Jun 24, 2024 01:27

@sigil @AndyBonner's post is really worth thinking deeply about. By reversing the question — asking what classical traits you like, then finding those traits in more contemporary genres — you'll probably discover a rich trove of musics that might not have occurred to you/us by comparing today to yesterday. Also, I second the suggestion of "Epic" music. Searching for that on YouTube will get lots of results, and it's definitely classical at heart — very much movie/game music in function.

Rory Alsop

Oct 20, 2023 16:47

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Martin Sleziak

Jun 14, 2024 13:59

The post with most bumps by the community user: main, meta.

V2Blast

Oct 10, 2023 20:14

The Question Collection post for this site's moderator election is now live here.

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Sir Cumference

May 18, 2024 18:37

Hi, I'm transcribing a piano piece in 4/4 and was wondering if I can get advice on which of these is more readable:

Todd Wilcox

Sep 3, 2023 17:18

For anyone curious, this is the site: partimenti.org/partimenti/about_parti/index.html

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Dom

Apr 24, 2024 19:51

How do people feel about the audio tag: music.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/audio

luser droog

Jul 28, 2023 12:42

Just Like U Said It Would B

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Feeds

Jun 5, 2023 06:29

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Q: General Moderation Strike!

For those of you whom are unaware — as of Monday the 5th of June 2023 — there is a Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange network general moderation strike. For details, please see this Meta post: Moderation strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers Whe...

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Wilbur Whateley

Jun 10, 2015 23:49

Does anyone else think it's ironic that this is room 440?

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Andy Bonner

Feb 27, 2024 14:50

We would never have guessed that they had it, and I think there's a very large cohort of people that go undiagnosed, partly because the history of autism has given the "high-functioning" cohort other labels like "asperger's," and tv shows and movies like Rainman or The Good Doctor focus on level 2-3 people who are more strongly affected or require more support, and there might be a large undiagnosed cohort of people who are able to "mask" and "pass" but who take more effort to do so.

Andy Bonner

Feb 27, 2024 14:34

So first of all, don't push yourself too hard. Social anxiety is very common among adults, and anyone who isn't prepared to recognize and make allowance for it is the person who needs to change, not you.

Rory Alsop

Jan 10, 2024 08:33

The chord practice tools are a bit hit and miss, I think - if the child really wants to learn chords then they are great, but they aren't fun, and at this stage you probably want fun first

Harikrishnan M

Dec 21, 2023 01:18

There is a story behind all these: It was the colonial era in India, and when a British missionary (or whom?) approached his friend Muthuswamy Dikshithar, he had talked about music. After listening to and observing some chapel songs, Dikshithar composed some 'nottuswarams' (Tamilised version of Note Swaram).

The smallest of songs, yet they give a feeling as if you are in England in a massive concert hall listening to Mozart's or Beethoven's piece being played.

Clockwork

Jul 3, 2021 19:52

Hey there, just passing by to leave a small message to say thank you to the entire community of Music Stack Exchange. Thanks to all the useful replies I received to my questions here (as well as existing questions), I finally managed to pick my very first upright piano. And upon delivery, I'm still totally conquered. So thanks a lot for all the help I received (and surely will receive)

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Todd Wilcox

Dec 6, 2023 17:54

For both basic and advanced technique, The Art of Classical Guitar by Charles Duncan is complete and comprehensive. I would recommend every student of guitar read it.

Elements in Space

Dec 15, 2022 00:53

MuseScore 4 is out!

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Andy Bonner

Dec 1, 2023 22:00

So finally I'll come to the giveaway: The definition I personally settled on is a bit of a philosophical cop-out, but it's the one that works for me: Something is music when someone encounters it as music.

Andy Bonner

Nov 30, 2023 16:49

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Q: Can you give me feedback on an interval training game I'm building

I'm building some free web tools for musicians and one of them is an interval training game. https://guitarapp.com/chords/interval-trainer The game is at the top of the page and beneath that, there are some interactive tools to explore how each interval sounds in the context of the modes. Overall...

theory harmony intervals ear-training

Richard

Mar 23, 2021 02:44

Everyone be sure to check out the discussion on our upcoming tenth anniversary! music.meta.stackexchange.com/q/3695/21766

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Todd Wilcox

Oct 9, 2022 18:46

Anyone have thoughts on ASCAP vs BMI? Does it matter what kind of music one is writing? A lot of web sites comparing the two talk about songwriting, but I’m composing works that are not songs.

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Elements in Space

Oct 19, 2023 20:01

I'm concerned at how little engagement there is with the election so far.

Andy Bonner

Oct 12, 2023 18:02

Mysterioso Pizzicato

Mysterioso Pizzicato, also known as The Villain or The Villain's Theme, is a piece of music whose earliest known publication was in 1914, when it appeared in an early collection of incidental photoplay music aimed at accompanists for silent films. The main motif, with minor variations, has become a well-known and widely used device (or "cliche"), incorporated into various other musical works, and the scores of films, TV programmes and video games, as well as unnotated indications in film scripts. Both a character theme (the "traditional 'bad-guy' cue") and situation theme, it is used to herald...

Aaron

Sep 19, 2022 03:46

Hey, Everybody. Post a picture of your axe(s). (I will do so myself as soon as my axe is nearby.)

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Richard

Jan 1, 2021 00:00

Happy New Year, Music.SE. I hope 2021 is a happy and healthy one for us all.

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Feeds

Oct 3, 2023 14:57

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Q: 2023 Moderator Election Announcement

SE friends, It is, I regret to share, time for me to step down as mod. I had hoped to be a mod for longer—and a more active one!—but a recent promotion has severely impacted the time I once spent here on Music.SE. Coupled with Stack Exchange’s actions, both recent and less so, I have decided it i...

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Feeds

Aug 25, 2022 21:58

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Q: Looking for users interested in committing to the chat room(s)

I'm looking for like-minded MP&T users to help grow our use of The Practice Room (our main chat room), The Auditorium (for posting recordings of oneself), and other site chat rooms, with the goal of increasing overall chatroom participation. Note to Saptak users and potential Saptak users: Saptak...

discussion chat

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Richard is stepping down

Sep 23, 2023 16:59

A few years ago I wrote: I seem to remember a story of Shostakovich being hounded by the KGB, and told to come to their office the following Monday. Shostakovich, knowing he was about to be "disappeared," spent the weekend getting his things in order. But when he went to the KBG officer's location on Monday, he found that actually the KGB officer himself had been disappeared over the weekend, and Shostakovich was suddenly free to go back home.

Aaron

Aug 21, 2022 19:34

Rodion Shchedrin - Homage To Chopin

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Archeg

Sep 13, 2023 08:11

I'm a music theory beginner who is trying to learn more as a hobby. I have some basic theory background, I know intervals, scales (not by heart though), chord structure. But I really struggle with chord progression, modulations, functions and piece analyzes. Could somebody recommend a good read or youtube course or something that could help me get going? I'm looking for something more persistant and longer, like a book, series of articles or a course, compared to just one article.

Rory Alsop

Oct 27, 2020 12:44

The Music.SE moderator election is open for nominations! music.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3601/…

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Rory Alsop

Mar 7, 2016 08:39

A 'C', an E-flat, and a 'G' go into a bar. The bartender says: "Sorry, but we don't serve minors." So, the E-flat leaves, and the C and the G have an open fifth between them. After a few drinks, the fifth is diminished: the G is out flat. An F comes in and tries to augment the situation, but is not sharp enough.

A D comes into the bar and heads straight for the bathroom saying, "Excuse me. I'll just be a second." An A comes into the bar, but the bartender is not convinced that this relative of C is not a minor. Then the bartender notices a B-flat hiding at the end of the bar and exclaims: …

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Tetsujin

Aug 23, 2023 16:05

Fascinating discussion/argument over the opening chord to Hard Day's Night. superuser.com/questions/1804661/… I had a Vox amp up & dialled in my Rikki 12 on the Variax & thought 'I wonder just how they did that' so foolishly I started on DIY guitar tab sites. After literally 10 wrong guesses on as many tabs this turned up in the search.

Elermino

Aug 7, 2023 00:59

getharmony.net was a very interesting web page with a lot of tools where you could get the notes of a song with guitar through a spectogram and make a tab to interpret it. Unfortunately it is down, but I would like to know if there is an alternative that offers the same tools or if this page has moved to another domain.

Demostration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlLGGMNBhkw

It should be noted that I have already tried some alternatives with Capo for MacOS, yalp.io, guitaa.com and chordify, but it does not give me the results that I expect, since the song that I put does not have chord…

Aaron

Jul 20, 2023 00:33

@ElementsinSpace I don't know why or when, but I think the lead rumor would be something related to the strike. Regardless — and with or without explanation — I do hope we'll see him back on the site soon. I've always found his posts admirable and a model for the site.

Andy Bonner

Jul 1, 2023 20:02

Re music.stackexchange.com/q/130640/78419: This is a 21st-century song, but it definitely has American folk influences. If I had to assign it labels, I'd actually call it something like "indie folk," in the same sense that Sufjan Stevens or the Fleet Foxes are "folk" artists.

Andy Bonner

Jun 21, 2023 14:33

Re music.stackexchange.com/q/130466/78419: Yes, there is "good sheet music" and "bad sheet music," and many sites that are clogged with "bad." But the biggest consideration when getting music for a student is level.