February 2007
Monthly Archive
Avoiding musical potholes
Posted by editor on Feb 24 2007 | Category: Music, Performance, Technique
Like our highways and roads, most of the songs that we sing are sprinkled with potholes. These musical pitfalls, unless you know how to avoid them, can cause bumps in your performance. What exactly are musical potholes, and how can we cover them over to make our performances as smooth as possible for our audiences?
Musical potholes
Musical potholes are the little things in a song — note intervals, lyrics, word combinations, consonants — that make understanding the song a challenge to the listener.
Science discovers what barbershop singers know
Posted by editor on Feb 18 2007 | Category: Discussion, Music
I recently heard an article from NPR’s Robert Krulwich on the significane of B flat. It got me thinking. Further research turned up another article, this time from BBC News, that corroborates the NPR story. Scientists are only now discovering the universal appeal of a frequency we take for granted.
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