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Johann Sebastian Bach was 30 when he became head of music in Anhalt-Cöthen, in what is now Germany. Here he started an uncharted experiment in classical music: solo works for string instruments.
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New research claims to have found a link between types of chords and the lyrics they are typically paired with.
Music and work don’t always mix.
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Listening to your favourite album might not be the best idea if you’ve got something to do.
Using federal funding to hire a student composer for the summer is an innovative idea to help support young creative talent.
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The Canada Summer Jobs program allowed the Kingston Chamber Choir to hire a student to write an original composition. Other arts organizations should follow suit to employ students in creative fields.
Babies start their musical development in the womb.
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There a number of ways you can use music to shape your child’s brain for success, from 16 weeks gestation right up until they start school.
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Self-expression from the streets.
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In the great reformer’s eyes, if you didn’t love a rousing tune you deserved only “the music of the pigs”.
George Michael in the music video for Father Figure.
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George Michael’s posthumous documentary Freedom reveals the star’s tension between pop-stardom and privacy.
The Pulitzer Prize winning emcee Kendrick Lamar recently asked a white fan to refrain from rapping the n-word. A video recording of the incident has reignited a controversy that gained wide attention last year. In this 2016 file photo, Kendrick Lamar performs in New York.
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At one of his shows, rapper Kendrick Lamar asked a white fan to refrain from rapping the n-word. A video of the incident has reignited a controversy: can white people ever rap the n-word?
Stormzy performing at Glastonbury Festival, 2017.
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Grime could provoke the most disruptive cultural transformation of the British music industry in decades.
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Being a member of a community choir has similar health and social benefits as being part of a football team.
Taylor Mac performs in The Inauguration at the Melbourne Festival.
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Taylor Mac’s 90-minute version of a 24-hour history of pop music is a hit, determined to forge a renewed sense community with the audience.
Heidi Mellington, performing here with Anthony Smith in Dizzygothica in 2007, has spoken about the importance of a supportive local music scene for emerging artists.
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Depite new technologies for music dissimination, EDM artists located in cities have access to resources not available in non-metropolitan areas.
Paddy McAlloon, in his more recent guise as a pop eccentric in dress as well as attitude.
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The great eccentric characters of the past have given us great art, literature and music – and they should be welcomed today.
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There is a gender gap in the music and sound industry. Inspiring young girls about careers in these fields has never been more important.
Duo Movaizhaleine and artist Wonda Wendy take a minute’s silence to honor the dead during a concert in Paris, February 2017.
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Rap has become instrumental in constructing identity and radically reshaping relations to politics in Gabon and other African states.
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But how does it stay relevant in the world of Spotify and iTunes?
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The singer had Romantic notions in common with the poet – as well as with William Blake, Mary Shelley, and John Keats.
David Bowie performs on his 1974 Diamond Dogs world tour.
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David Bowie was the tasteful thief and practised faker, and his 1974 album Diamond Dogs borrowed from everything to create a sublime post-apocalyptic soundscape.
Women in colourful traditional dress in Nosy Be, Madagascar.
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Island philosophies can be used to decolonise university courses and teaching. They can also advance sustainable development models and, ultimately, achieve responsible tourism.