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The Relationship between The Elements of Music and Musical Form
My most recent musicology lecture focused on the relationship between musical form and the elements of music. I am looking for examples of the following – feel free to suggest – Examples of pieces with unusual bar numbers between … Continue reading
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Tagged elements of music, form, musicology, paul carr, texture, timbre
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Exploitation or Publicity? The (re)use of music that is otherwise out of the public domain
A quick post here to ask a question really. When digging around on the internet tonight, I found a couple of tracks that I played on/composed that were being given away free. The first is off a Jazz Renegades album … Continue reading
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Tagged certain kind of freedom, freedom samba, jazz renegades, paul carr, sarah jane morris, steve white
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Foundation Degree in Music Industry Entrepeneurship: Session 1
It was the first session of the Foundation Degree in Music Industry Entrepreneurship today. We covered Study Skills: namely an 800 word essay on a topical area of the music industry, a 10 minute presentation on the music industry (using … Continue reading
A Synopsis of What I Have Been Up To
Well, I thought I would never get around to writing another blog. A mixture of a broken laptop and ‘life in general’ has resulted in me not writing a post for a couple of months. I intend to change that … Continue reading
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Tagged big scott, ergo phizmiz, Frank Zappa, live music, loops, Music, paul carr, welsh music industry, zappa family trust
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Pat Metheny: Why is his music so interesting?
I have just spent an hour or so listening to a ‘best of Pat Metheny‘ collection on Spotify. Having been listening to this man’s music for around 30 years now, it is crazy to think some of the tracks … Continue reading
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Tagged Academic, metheny, music analysis, musicology, nattiez, orchestrion, pat metheny, paul carr
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Frank Zappa Analysis with Dave Frank
Here is a UStream cast by pianist and educator Dave Frank on Frank Zappa’s music. The session starts with some solo piano playing of none Zappa material (really nice), followed by some interesting analysis on Zappa’s tonal, modal, and atonal … Continue reading
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Tagged dave frank, Frank Zappa, musicology, paul carr, peaches and regalia
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Zappa and the And: Book progress
Well, here we go – the first preview of the chapter abstracts for the new Frank Zappa book I am editing – Frank Zappa and the And: Key Essays on the Contextualisation of his Legacy. So far, everything is going … Continue reading
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Tagged avant garde, censorship, cultural legacy, cut and paste, Frank Zappa, freaks, god, horror, modernism, movies, musicology, paul carr, resistance, satire, suburbia, technology
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New Frank Zappa Book
I eventually got the contract for my Zappa edited collection this week ‘Zappa and the And: A Contextual Analysis of his Legacy’. If everything goes to plan, it will be released toward the end of 2012, and I will use … Continue reading
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Tagged Ashgate, book, brown shoes, censorship, creativity, Frank Zappa, freaks, god, horror, movies, paul carr, politic, sampling, suburbia, technology, zappa and the and
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Frippertronics and Loops
It seems to me that King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp has to be considered one of the pioneers of using loops as a creative compositional tool. Aside from his work with King Crimson, I am interesting in his use of … Continue reading
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Tagged Frippertronics, guitar, King Crimson, loop, loops, paul carr, Soundscapes
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