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Transform Your Life With Music Making

Transform Your Life With Music Making

What were the dreams that this could become?  Don't forget the vivid color and these scenes.  You found your instrument and it found you!   The focus, practice, goal setting, etc, the “work” can come later.  Priority is enjoying the time you spend with your instrument.  Of course, the more time you spend practicing with intent, the better you get at it and the rewards come. 

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The Victory Vertical Project

The Victory Vertical Project

The Victory Vertical Project - A Historical Case Study in Recreational Music Making 

Two nights past we received welcome entertainment when a jeep pulling a small wagon came to camp. The wagon contained a light system and a Steinway (sic). Mom, you would laugh if you were to have seen it, because the Steinway is not at all like Uncle Jake’s.

 

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Clarinet Learn More

Clarinet Learn More

ORIGINS OF CLARINET 

While the similarity in sound between the earliest clarinets and the trumpet may hold a clue to its name, other factors may have been involved. During the Late Baroque era, composers such as Bach and Handel were making new demands on the skills of their trumpeters, who were often required to play difficult melodic passages in the high, or as it came to be called, clarion register.

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Percussion Introduction

Percussion Introduction

As the "keeper of the rhythm," the perucssion provides the foundation for the overall sound of music.

The many instruments included in the percussion family include any instrument that is struck, shaken or scraped in order to produce the sound. 

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Recorders Galore - Just Arrived at Golden Music

Recorders Galore - Just Arrived at Golden Music

What are they made of?  Recorders are musical instruments that were originally made of wood, but today recorders made of resin are available.

Wooden recorders have the timbre of rosewood, with emphasized gentle, sweet characteristics.  Ebony has a distinctive power and charm.
Kingswood has elegance and sweetness even amid its strength.
Castelo wood has a tone that expresses subtlety rather than strength.
Maple has a sweet, clear sound, with an exquisite harmony, prominent when playing within an ensemble..

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Where Did 'Jazz,' the Word, Come From--America’s Classical Music?

Where Did 'Jazz,' the Word, Come From--America’s Classical Music?

When it comes to the origin of the word “jazz,” it seems that each person simply believes what she or he wants to.

Some would like the word to come from Africa, so they firmly believe the stories that support that. Others want it to be an African-American word, so they look for that. The word “jazz” probably derives from the slang word “jasm,”which originally meant energy, vitality, spirit, pep.

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Origins of the Violin - the Byzantine Lira

Origins of the Violin - the Byzantine Lira
The violin was first built in the early 16th century, in Italy. The earliest evidence for it's existence is in paintings by Gaudenzio Ferrari from the 1530s, though Ferrari's instruments had only three strings. The Academie musicale, a treatise written in 1556 by Philibert Jambe de Fer, gives a clear description of the violin family much as we know it today. Continue reading
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