What was music like in antiquity? Today, we will explore the story of the man who is our primary source of knowledge about the music of Classical-Hellenistic Greece. He was a Peripatetic philosopher, a student of Aristotle, who was displeased when Aristotle chose someone else as his successor to lead the school. He healed by […]
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Intervision, the Soviet Bloc Festival that Replicated Eurovision with Voting by Turning the Lights On and Off
This is evident with NATO and the Warsaw Pact or the European Common Market and COMECON. But interestingly enough, the Eastern countries also had a response to something much less serious. In 1977, the ISC, the Intervision Song Contest, was born, which, as you can guess, was a copy of the Eurovision Song Contest in […]
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The Delphic Hymns to Apollo are the Earliest Songs with Notated Music whose Composer is Known
Although the Seikilos Epitaph, dating from the first century A.D., is the oldest surviving full song with musical notation and text, and we know its author, Seikilos, there are some older compositions. The Delphic Hymns to Apollo, found inscribed on fragments of the outer wall of the Athenian Treasury at the sanctuary of Delphi, are […]
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Saxhorn, saxtuba, saxotromba and other lesser known instruments created by the inventor of saxophone
Although, more or less, we think we know all the musical instruments, it’s not really like that. Throughout history there have been many, many, only a good part of them fell into disuse and were relegated to oblivion. But we are not referring only to other times but also to this one. In times as […]
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Albinoni’s Adagio was composed by the Italian musicologist Remo Giazotto in 1945.
Surely this is surprising because, after all, the famous Adagio in G minor is not only one of the best-known pieces of classical music but also one of the most popular among music lovers with a closely linked name of title and author: “Albinoni’s Adagio”. It is ironic, therefore, that in reality the work is […]
