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Composer and political activist Mikis Theodorakis has died at 96, but his music – and the famous Zorba dance – will continue.
The genius of Bluey isn’t just in its characters and stories of family life. The hit show’s soundtrack sets the mood, plays with the narrative and draws on classical scores.
Toy pianos typically have a range of 12-36 keys, roughly one quarter the range of a full piano. But they are used by composers and music makers to write everything from concertos to pop songs.
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, or ‘Yom HaShoah,’ a music scholar recollects how composer Istvan Anhalt’s experiences in Nazi-occupied Hungary informed his later life and music in Canada.
By combining the tradition facets with modern music Lloyd Webber reinvigorated the form.
A period of intense dreaming in 1964 shaped the entire body of the late Joseph Shabalala’s songs. In these rare in-depth interviews, he spoke of his beliefs and inspirations.
Two precious manuscripts hidden in a bank vault survived the Allied bombing of Dresden, but one wound up in Soviet hands — until it was smuggled home.
This year Ludwig van Beethoven turns 250. Though some of his creations have been overexposed, they are indisputably brilliant. And there are still others waiting to be discovered by music lovers.
Princess movies and opera alike reveal the limited number of models available to women. “Le Dernier Sorcier”, composed by Pauline Viardot in 1869, shows that a much richer world is possible.
Scientific research into the effects of climate change in Antarctica - and its history of intrepid exploration - is inspiring contemporary Australian composers.
How would a Jacobean servant react to a trumpet flourish?
The Liverpool comic scored with the third-highest selling single of the 1960s.
A year before his death at 31 Franz Schubert published ‘Winterreise’ or ‘winter’s journey’, a series of 24 poems set to music exploring unrequited love. Schubert described them as ‘truly terrible’.
In the late 1930s, Australia sought to restrict the flow of refugees, ruling that musicians were ‘unsuitable’ as migrants. Yet some talented Jewish musicians did arrive here and their work has enriched our cultural life.
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Senior Lecturer in Communication, University of Technology Sydney
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Manager, Research Support, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Musicology, University of Sydney
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
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Professor of Music Emeritus, and University Fellow, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Professor of Music, City, University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Musicology, Conservatorium of Music, School of Creative Arts and Media; Adjunct Senior Researcher, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, University of Tasmania
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Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer in Music, University of New England
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Musicologue et musicienne, Sorbonne Université
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Professor of Musicology and Music Theory, Dalhousie University
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Jean A. Chalmers Chair in Canadian Music, University of Toronto
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Senior Lecturer and Musical Theatre Programme Leader, University of Winchester
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Adjunct Research Fellow, Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University
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Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, University of Sheffield
