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Musicking
We cannot understand the nature of music and its role in human life by conceiving of it as a thing; we must see it as an event in a context, replacing the noun music with the verb musicking. The...
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Slonimsky and Coltrane
Nicolas Slonimsky’s Thesaurus of scales and melodic patterns (1947) is a highly systematic compendium of templates for composition and improvisation. In an interview, Slonimsky stated that “the...
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Iggy Pop and John Coltrane
In an interview, Iggy Pop described the influence of John Coltrane’s music on his career. “The first time I heard Coltrane the cut was A love supreme, and that’s an extremely simple three-note bass...
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Coltrane’s saxophonic scream
The critical reception of John Coltrane’s saxophonic scream—an incredibly high-pitched, raw, and intense explosion of timbre—demonstrates how our precognitive reaction to sonic timbres can invoke...
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