Naxos Music Library
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Tag: music
Compusing Confutatis: a brilliant animation
Martin Gonzalez has animated a musical score and combined it with the original scene from the 1984 film Amadeus in which a dying Mozart dictates part of his unfinished Requiem to fellow composer Antonio Salieri. If you have any interest in music or composition at all, this change really adds a lot to the original scene.
Yellow Submarine never sounded so bleak
The Beatles’ catchy archetypal children’s song Yellow Submarine was originally destined to sound very different to the finally released version, as this remastered version sourced directly from the original four-track master tapes shows.
Got rhythm
Apes lack mobile phones. Therefore they lack personalised ringtones. Don’t they? Well, it so happens that at least one tribe of male chimpanzees in Uganda are banging out unique and distinctive rhythms against tree trunks to announce their presence.
A celebration of synth
Modern music is pretty much all synthesised, or at least comprises digital reproductions of recordings of acoustic sounds and yet this development was very much a twentieth-century phenomenon. This post comprises a whistlestop tour from early electric light bulbs through vacuum tubes to modern electronic circuitry, Oscar, Sala, Brian Eno, the too often overlooked Wendy Carlos, and on to the modern day with many a window shopping stop along the way.
Eurovision, done right at last!
Love it, hate it, fail to see the point of it, or not know what it is or how it came about – it is rare to find someone who has absolutely no opinion about the world’s most political musical competition, the Eurovision Song Contest. For years, I have pondered what was missing from this glitzy extravaganza, and today I happened across the answer: Lego.
Free music – without the lawsuit
“Free things are often expensive”, as the saying has it, and yet your library is pleased to present twelve free sources of music you can listen to for free guilt-free without inviting a law suit from the music’s copyright owners.
Copyright killed the YouTube star
You would imagine that if you record yourself playing music that is long out of copyright, J S Bach for example, on the piano in your bedroom, and post it to your YouTube channel, that no-one is going to accuse …
Digital Theatre Plus
Digital Theatre Plus is a useful resource for teachers and students of Performing Arts or English Literature. It can also be enjoyed by anyone who enjoys dramatic or musical performance. It is mostly a video-based teaching resource for schools and …
Rediscovering the “Pompey Messiah”
It was certainly one of those WOW moments: when he found something wonderful he wasn’t really expecting. “I was in Portsmouth Central Library”, principal lecturer Dr. George Burrows tells me, “trying to find something historic about music and Portsmouth I …
