Musical tradition is at times a rather odd element of this popular art. One of those traditions that still holds true for today is that of using Italian terms to instruct a performer in notated scores ...

Calculate distributed speaker transformer taps, total amplifier load, reserve headroom, wire voltage drop, current draw, and equivalent impedance for 70V audio lines. Use these presets as starting ...

French composer Claude Debussy did not align himself with the movement that became known as Impressionism. Understandably, Debussy resisted this classification as with it could come restrictions, ...

As a musical genre, Funk has its roots firmly embedded in jazz. Funk incorporates many elements of jazz alongside soul and earlier African-American styles of music. Following on from the immense ...

Over the years of working on Liszt’s substantial catalog of piano music, my somewhat harsh judgment has been tempered towards the fact that Liszt was not only a virtuoso pianist but a composer who ...

A dulcimer is a stringed folk instrument which basically comes in two different varieties: the hammered dulcimer – which has strings stretched over a sounding board with a trapezoidal shape, generally ...

The notation for swing rhythm is an approximation but as close as it can be without requiring immensely complex and cumbersome sub-divisions of note values. The result of the swing is a sense of ...

This is a particularly interesting title as we enter uncharted territories with the rise of AI across The Arts. Some greet this revolution with eager anticipation whilst others are more cautious. What ...

Compare lowest and highest comfortable notes, tessitura, range span, and passaggio clues against classical voice-type ranges for practical singer classification.

Bluegrass dates back to around the time of the Second World War. It evolved from what is called ‘string-band ‘ music that pre-dated what came to be known as Country Music today. String-Bands as you ...

Perhaps Satie’s creative uniqueness stemmed from his Scottish Mother and French Father. He was born in Honfleur, France, in 1866 and when only four years old his family moved to Paris in order for his ...

Estimate turns, wire length, winding layers, DCR, current stress, and practical trimming notes for air-core speaker crossover inductors.