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The Musical Bridge – Celebrating Cherry Blossom Season with Japanese Arts – Creating A Haiku Song

The Musical Bridge – Celebrating Cherry Blossom Season with Japanese Arts – Part 2 – Hanami and Haiku In our previous post, we were...

Musical Innovations – The Subtlety of Sound, Lucia Dlugoszewski, Composer

Lucia Dlugoszewski was an American Musical Innovator and Inventor, Composer, Poet, Choreographer, and Performer.

Women in Music – Barbara Strozzi, Baroque Songstress

Barbara Strozzi was the most prolific composer of secular songs of her time.

Musical Innovations – Harry Partch Instruments

Inventor and Composer In previous posts, we've focused on the instruments played in the conventional Western orchestra, some instruments...

Music for the Dead – The Requiem

Music for Remembrance We've reached Fall 2020, a year that will no doubt be remembered as a year of transition and mourning. This past...

Orchestration Basics – Understanding the Voice

More Than "Just A Singer" – Voices As Instruments In the last post, I introduced the four main voice types, as well as additional...

Orchestration Basics – Choir – Voices Types

Classifying the Voice There are four main voice types in choral music: soprano, alto, tenor, and bass.

Welcome to The Virtual Classroom

If you are an educator, you may wonder how you can communicate effectively in the virtual space. And, if you are a learner, you may have a d