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Beyond the musical horizon: Erv Wilson
Music is a perpetual journey toward the exploration of new sounds and structures. While many adhere to traditional scales and tuning systems, there are visionaries who challenge these limits in...
The music that is not written: oral tradition and collective memory
Oral tradition · Music · Collective memory There are songs that never needed sheet music to endure through the centuries. Someone heard them. Remembered them. Sang them again. Another person did the same. And so on...
You know more about music than you think.
Musical Awareness. Perhaps you've never studied harmony. Maybe you can't explain what a dominant is, write a scale, or recognize an interval by name. Even so, when a melody hangs suspended...
Music and grief: why we need songs to say goodbye
Music · Memory · Ritual There are moments when words seem insufficient. Death is one of them. And perhaps that's why, when someone passes away, so many cultures begin to sing....
