Music Blog #1 1-5-2020 This is the inaugural installment of the mighty XXXX (now Note Musings) music blog. There are three goal I have in mind as I am starting this: Talk about music things that come across my field of view. Talk about kids and music and musical learning. Highlighting music that has caught…
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“A show dedicated to the proposition that all music is created equally, or, as Duke Ellington put it, ‘If it sounds good, it is good.’” It all started at the Covid school day all-family lunch table. I had just shared a neat little story about bird art music (as opposed to art metal music). My…
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So it has been longer than planned since I last typed anything here. And, truth be told, this is not going to be anything overly thought out. What with viruses and home schooling and economies going the wrongest of directions and, well, really just life right now, I feel at least kind of good just…
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Today’s main link is to Devin Townsend’s Twitch page. Townsend’s Empath is right at the top of the list for best album of the last year as far as I’m concerned. The discerning listener (said with lilting, pretentious tones) with find sounds ranging from blast beat blasting metal to Broadway open vocal to positively poppy.…
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Since I am not on social media, I have decided to start sharing some fun and/or inspirational videos and links and what-have-yous. This also gives me a chance to learn how to embed videos. Turns out its kinda simple. There are some amazingly creative and talented people out there… Music listened to while writing: See…
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After yesterday I was thinking of all the people out there being affected by the ongoing virus pandemic (it’s official). It started as I walked by a Vietnamese restaurant that just opened a week ago. This would be the very definition of unlucky timing. Then, as my mind wandered around thinking of all of the…
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The next planned post was a second part of the origins of music in human evolution. But, then the world happened. What with all things being virus related this week, it occurred to me that there were an awful lot of music lessons that might be affected by current cancel and isolate mindset. While I…
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As it happens, I know a little about prehistory. The downside of trying to shine bits of light into the deep dark of our human past is, short of someone suddenly inventing a working Wayback Machine, it is just really hard to finalize with absolute assuredness what happened, say, 40,000 years ago. Nevertheless, we continue…
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