(The system could put out 28,000 watts of sound. To learn more about it: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wnnayb/the-wall-of-sound). Continue reading

(The Guidonian hand was a widely used mnemonic device used to help singers learn to sight-sing. Guido of Arezzo, a medieval music theorist, described a basic form of the hand in his writings, including his Micrologus. The Guidonian hand was the subject of many medieval music treatises and depicted for the first time in the… Continue reading

(This is an illustration from a 12th-century copy of Boethius’ De musica. Boethius is depicted on the top left, experimenting with a monochord. Pythagoras is depicted on the top right, experimenting with bell vibrations. On the bottom left is the philosopher Plato, and bottom right, the mathematician Nicomachus.) “A musician is one who has gained… Continue reading