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On “Going Classical”: String Arrangements Of Pop Music In Bridgerton
“Bridgerton matched Victorian morality with enlightened heroines, and progressive attitudes with a lavish regency aesthetic. And nowhere was the blend of old and new more evident, than in the music. – Maddy Shaw Roberts, Bridgerton Season 2 soundtrack: every pop song with a classical cover “Nobility, warmth, and equality of tone from one end of Continue reading
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Notes On Paul Morley’s “Words and Music”
“Music is merely a form of guesswork about consciousness.” “Music is careful attention paid to ongoing experience.” – Paul Morley, Words and Music (16, 134). It was with much delight that a few weeks after finishing Bob Stanley’s Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! I read Paul Morley’s exhaustive, masterfully strange, and revelatory history of popular music, Words Continue reading
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On Re-Composition: Max Richter Meets Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons
The German-English composer Max Richter had a cool idea: re-write the score to Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. Not a remix exactly, but rather a getting inside the piece and messing around with its materials. Richter calls the process “re-composition” and his piece is called Recomposed. The Italian composer, violinist, and priest Antonio Vivaldi wrote The Continue reading
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