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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Bloomsbury Sound Studies The Bloomsbury Sound Studies ebook collection is on trial until 11 December 2021. It provides students and researchers with wide ranging, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary scholarly content in the study of sound. Subject areas covered include art, aesthetics, …
We are delighted to present a guest blog from our most recent work experience student to the University Library, Tara Bell. Here’s how she found Library life, in her own words. During the summer, I planned a week of work …
Do you do music? If so, you should check out Music Online for audio examples of music from all over the World, as well as encyclopedic information relating to places, cultural groups, instruments, including the voice and electronic, and genre, …
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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 …
