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Tag: composers
What We Learned from ‘Composers or Types of Pasta’
Thanks to a hilarious internet quiz, we’ve discovered works from 8 spectacular Italian composers that we definitely thought were types of pasta.
Fanny Mendelssohn and Clara Schumann: The Inspiring Composers Music History Missed
Editor’s Note: The conspicuous absence of women from the historical canon of great classical composers…
On Sofia Gubaidulina, the Once-Blacklisted 86-Year-Old Composer Who’s Still Working
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A Beginner’s Guide to Morton Feldman — an Intimate Encounter with Sound
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Orchestral Works for Children’s Education: Britten, Prokofiev, and Saint-Saëns
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Scarlatti and Rossini Prove That Cat-Inspired Composing Is Hundreds of Years Old
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Sibelius, That High-Functioning Drunkard
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Mirah on the Sound of 50,000 Decisions and ‘Total Collaboration’
Welcome back to Soundfly’s weekly interview series, Incorrect Music, curated by guitarist, singer, and composer Lora-Faye Åshuvud (of…
5 Moments in the History of Tape That Shaped Modern Music
Before the synthesizer, electronic experimenters were already at work with another instrument — the tape recorder.…