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What importance might traditional Turkish music instruments such as the ney, tanbur, kopuz and rebap, and Western classical music staples like the French horn, baroque harp and flute hold in Turkey's relations with the EU? Turkish-French musicologist Chimené Seymen, a specialist on baroque music, found an answer by coming through centuries of classical music. (06/06)
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With the help of a South Carolina Arts Commission grant, Maryville Elementary School was able to bring a glass harp musician all the way from Atlanta, ...
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A violin case slung over her shoulder, 10-year-old Daniela Fagundez trudges home along a row of muddy yards where chickens scratch among banana trees and ...
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YOU might not expect to find a polished young ensemble like the Parker String Quartet playing music by Beethoven, Bartok and Ligeti — or collaborating ...
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Pre-twentieth century music all exists in the public domain, but that doesn't mean it's easy to get access either to recordings or sheet music. Want ...
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UCLA molecular biologists have turned protein sequences into original compositions of classical music. "We converted the sequence of proteins into music ...
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Classical music giant Deutsche Grammophon will make the bulk of its catalog available online from tomorrow when it relaunches its Website and presses the ...
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Believing gangs and Mozart don't mix, city police and Pierce Transit officials are mounting a classical attack on a growing problem of street gangs at ...
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Waking up in the morning to Herbert von Karajan on the radio, I have to rub my eyes and check the calendar to make sure that Mao Tse-tung is not alive ...
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PEOPLE who pay the least attention to classical music probably know Mozart's clarinet concerto and quintet, two indelibly beautiful works. But how many ...
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As I write this article, I feel that I am writing about something that we prefer not talking about. Should I write this or not? Do we in the musical fraternity ...
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Are we our own worst enemies? Is the world of classical music too stuffy by half? Certainly Muso magazine seems to think so. According to its website, ...
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U.S. biologists have found a way to present human protein sequences as classical music in an attempt to help vision-impaired scientists. Rie Takahashi ...
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Opera lovers and classical music aficionados have long lamented the particular difficulties they face in organizing their music in digital programs and ...
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Composer Steve Reich does not expect his memorial piece for Daniel Pearl to stop what he calls the "medieval religious war" that claimed the reporter's ...
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Far from being fuddy-duddy traditionalists, classical music fans are embracing new technology as never before, new research reveals. Three-quarters listen ...
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After nearly two years on the job, Gilbert Hetherwick, the president of Sony BMG Masterworks, has been made redundant as part of an large-scale overhaul, ...
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'For you English, football is more important than life or death," says a young jazz fan in Moscow's Dom club, quoting Bill Shankly's famous comment. ...
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John Peel's sudden demise touched the nation so profoundly that even the second anniversary of his death is being marked next Thursday with an entire ...
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The traditional music in the Philippines is being rekindled and recreated in the capital Manila. Replacing rock and pop, bands known as "musikong bumbong" ...
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If you are a serious guitar-master wannabe and you want to focus on the tune of Brian May's guitar and don't want to hear Freddie Mercury's voice and ...
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If you are looking for an alternative to the sold-out Hannah Montana concert series, the new video game "Hannah Montana: Music Jam" may be just the ticket ...
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Of the many thousands of concerts Indian master musician Ali Akbar Khan has performed, he particularly disliked a famous 1971 benefit show organized by ...
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Ahead of the release, researcher Laurent Jeanneau, who compiled the selection, organised a performance at the Goethe Institute in Hanoi on Mar. 18, where ...
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The audiologist walked through the packed lunchroom, holding a wand-like instrument near the 200 middle school students laughing, shrieking, and drumming ...
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It's the big irony of the electric guitar. Its body mimics the waist and curves of a woman. And yet, alone among instruments, the electric guitar is still ...
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Three digital music veterans have launched a stealth startup and are close to unveiling both a new portable media player and what they're calling an "internet ...
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These pictures have let the cat out of the bag. Nigeria's supermodel, Oluchi Onweagba is not only modelling these musical instruments, there are strong ...
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ABBA fans, start making your travel plans now. A museum dedicated to the musical group will open in Sweden in 2008. Organizers are still looking for a ...
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