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There aren't that many people in the world that haven't hear anything about Elvis Presley, the king of rock n' roll, and there are a few reasons as to why he became such an important figure in music history, more specifically rock. Context in America First of all it's important to have in mind the context at the time, which was around the 1950s, this was a...

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A little over a year ago I started practicing the harp – an instrument that I had never touched before receiving a kit to build one for Christmas of 2018. By April of 2019 I had finished putting it together, installed the strings, and started working in a curriculum series. In late July of 2019 I bought a book of “easy” Christmas songs with the intention of playing a selection...

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Ludwig Van Beethoven is one of the most important musicians in history, and it's hard not to know his name or recognizing some of his work as something "familiar" but few people really get into how he did the things he did, and why did he become so famous and such an important part of history. A lot of this can be answered through his composition...

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Many times the topic of improvisation comes to mind in music, but it's usually tied to genres like Jazz and Rock, however, improvisation happened long before these two were even a genre. Musicians like Beethoven and Mozart would sometimes improvise and impress the audience with an unexpected yet natural turn in the performance. John Mortensen's Thoughts John Mortensen, author of "The Pianist's Guide to Historic Improvisation" ...

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The world of today has a big problem, which consists in blurring the line between a person's work as an artist and their personal lives, which in turn begs the question, do we judge artists by their deeds and who they are as a person or their work. Sometimes even actors suffer the consecuences of actions that are not their own, but characters they portrayed, which...

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