Classical Music Essentials: 30 Pieces, the Periods, and a Listening Map
The map lists 30 pieces in rough date order, from Hildegard of Bingen in the 1150s to Arvo Pärt in 1978.
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Music history, music myths, song meanings and music-making tools, checked against sources. Each article is also filed under its topic.
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Did Salieri Poison Mozart? 10 Stories About the Great Composers and What the Record Shows
The record does not support it: letters and documents of the time show Mozart and Salieri on cordial terms, and the poison story spread later through Pushkin's play.
AI Music Generators and the Lawsuits, Explained: What Was Filed, Settled and Still Open
Record labels sued the AI music generators Suno and Udio in June 2024, alleging they copied the labels' recordings to train their models.
DAWs Compared: Free and Paid Music Production Software, With Real Limits and Prices
"Free" means three different things: free with no time limit but with tracks or features capped, time-limited trials of 3 to 60 days, and FL Studio's trial, which never expires but cannot reopen saved projects.
The Free Music Production Toolkit: Synths, Effects, Sample Licences, Notation and Stem Separation
"Free" means four things: open source, free but closed, a free tier of a paid product, and licences for the sounds, not the software.
Music Myths Checked: 11 Things People Believe About Music
Of eleven common beliefs about music, seven are myths, three are partly true and one is disputed; none is simply true as usually told.
Music Visualizers Compared: Free and Paid Tools for Live Shows, Videos and Players
Free options are real but limited: TouchDesigner's free licence is for unpaid work only and caps resolution, Resolume's demo adds a logo watermark and a robot voice, and Synesthesia's trial watermarks its output.
The First Recorded Sound Was Not Edison's: How Sound Recording Really Began
Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville recorded sound before Edison, patenting his phonautograph in 1857; it traced sound on paper and could not play it back.
The Machines Behind Modern Music: How MIDI and the Roland TR-808 Came About
MIDI was negotiated between competing companies over several years and first shown in public in January 1983, connecting a Sequential Prophet 600 and a Roland JP-6.
Don't Cry for Me Argentina Meaning and Significance
"Don't Cry for Me Argentina" is a song from the musical Evita by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, first released in 1976.
Mr. Kitty's "After Dark" Song Meaning
"After Dark" is a 2014 song by Mr.Kitty, the synth-pop project of Forrest Carney, and we found no explanation of its meaning from the artist.