Tag: music

10 Great Contemporary Art And Music Crossovers

  • 20/03/2023

Although it was launched in 2015, this CD is so uncommon that the only means I learned about it was from the artist herself, who contacted me on Facebook and sent me sound information to take heed to. The solely place yow will discover it online is on the HMV.CO website, where it’s promoting for ¥2,934, which converts to $25.69 in U.S. forex, however the creative quality of this disc is so excessive that I felt compelled to review it right here. The solo vocal piece Vetur öngum lánar lið, based on a poem by the singer’s great-grandfather, Bjarni Jónsson. The wonderful thing is that the identical person, Sæunn Thorsteindóttir, performs both pieces. Whereas the music was simple, the cello piece is complicated, with some very virtuosic passages in it. At 9 minutes, it’s definitely much longer than the two-minute music it’s based mostly on.

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The Muse Of Music: Well-known Artists Who Were Inspired By Sound

  • 12/12/2022

Beginning in 1966, the diploma of social and inventive dialogue amongst rock musicians dramatically accelerated for bands who fused elements of composed music with the oral musical traditions of rock. During the late Sixties and Seventies, progressive rock bands represented a form of crossover music that mixed rock with excessive art musical types either by way of citation, allusion, or imitation. Progressive music could additionally be equated with express references to aspects of art music, sometimes ensuing in the reification of rock as art music. Art music (alternatively referred to as classical music, cultivated music, severe music, and canonic music) is music thought of to be of high phonoaesthetic worth. It typically implies advanced structural and theoretical concerns or a written musical tradition. In this context, the phrases “critical” or “cultivated” are frequently used to current a distinction with odd, everyday music (i.e. well-liked and folks music, also called “vernacular …