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Why you've never really heard the "Moonlight" Sonata. - By Jan Swafford - Slate Magazine
Pianos have changed since Beethoven's day. A visit to the Franklin Historic Piano Collection in Ashburnham, Mass., and audio of the "Moonlight" and "Appassionata" sonatas and works by Brahms and Debussy on contemporary pianos, compared to the same works played on a modern Steinway.
Trouble telling the difference between a major and minor triad? You're not alone. It's hardest when the chord isn't inverted.
Reflecting her changed priorities, Dawn Eden is looking for a buyer for her "entire pop, rock, and comedy record and CD collection," with proceeds to help finance her doctorate in theology and her aim of teaching the subject at a Catholic university. The prolific liner-notes writer estimates "500 45s, 250 LPs, and 400 CDs" in the collection, predominantly from 1965 to 1968.
Although I suspect I'd be tempted by a separate sale of the comedy collection, I don't have the cash or the requisite love of "obscure sunshine pop" to bid on the whole kaboodle. (Now, if Rich Kienzle -- the Dawn Eden of western swing and classic country music -- suddenly had the urge to swap his record collection for an extensive library of evangelical Protestant theology and church history, we might be able to work a deal.)
(Common thread -- both Eden and Kienzle have written liner notes for recordings involving guitarist and producer Tommy Allsup. And it's kind of amazing how many Tulsa musicians were a part of Gary Lewis and the Playboys at one time or another.)
YouTube - Whadayatalk? Whadayatalk? ("Rock Island" on the Green Line)
A group of Boston University students reenact the opening number from The Music Man on a Comm. Ave. streetcar. (Via Mark Evanier.)
YouTube - Benny Goodman and Red Norvo (1960)
Benny Goodman's 10-piece ensemble swings out with Goodman on clarinet, Red Norvo on marimba, Jimmy Wyble on guitar: "The World is Waiting For the Sunrise."
"Guitar Hero" for the classical set: Two pianists, looking at a tablet PC and a repeater monitor perched on the music rack of a grand piano, which is displaying scanned public domain scores found on the Internet, with a foot-operated gadget for turning the virtual page.
Mississippi State University Libraries : The Sheet Music Collection
PDFs of over 5,000 pieces of sheet music, mainly from the early 20th century.
Dallas - DC9 At Night - Echoes And Reverberations: The Ghosts Of The Longhorn Ballroom
Bob Wills, Merle Haggard, Otis Redding, Ray Charles, the Sex Pistols -- they all played the Longhorn.
Bounded Rationality: Some Thoughts on Shifting
An interesting essay by Jeff Shaw, who is learning to play violin, on how and why a violinist shifts finger positions.
macosxhints.com - A 'perfect' iTunes equalizer setting
Scroll down to "Wrong approach for audiophiles" to find a subtractive-filtering approach to the same effect: "Equalizers in both the analog and digital realm do subtractive filtering far better than additive filtering. When pulling the EQ down you are not creating the additive comb-filtering necessary to boost frequencies that do not already exist, so using this kind of approach is leaves more of the original audio intact and does not add as many artifacts to the signal."
