Tuesday, October 25, 2022

In the Television Show Dallas, The Repetition of Motives in the Show's Theme Song Matches the Repetition of Letters in the Show's Title

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For years, I've found it odd that the second phrase of Jerrold Immel's iconic two-phrase main theme for the popular TV drama Dallas ...
Saturday, September 18, 2021

What If...A Single Note Were Different? One Change Could Destroy the Entire Tonality

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Marvel's "What If...Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?" was released on Disney+ eighteen days ago. (Warning: ...
Monday, January 18, 2021

Musicellanea Sails Away

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This will be my 88th and final musicellanea post. The total of 88 total posts matches the total of 88 keys of a standard modern piano keyboa...
Thursday, December 31, 2020

Bizarre Beethoven

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Beethoven -- or whom I occasionally like to call " the male Emilie Mayer " -- was born 250 years ago this month. His music, and di...
Sunday, November 15, 2020

Turning Some Music for Stargate: Atlantis

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A number of my 2018 posts to this blog demonstrate how, by flipping or turning a representation of some music, you get either the representa...
Saturday, October 31, 2020

Chika's "High Rises" and the Transformation of a Popular Form of Part Writing

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"High Rises," the 2019 single by hip-hop artist Chika, enlists a vamp throughout the song. Here is my transcription of only the to...
Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Does a Le Beau Sonata Exposition Succeed or Fail? You Decide

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The exposition of a sonata-form movement is the first of the movement's three big parts. Especially in eighteenth- and earlier-nineteent...
Sunday, August 30, 2020

A Reminiscence of Beethoven in Some Music of Florence Price

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In the 2007 book Black Women and Music: More than the Blues , edited by Eileen M. Hayes and Linda F. Williams (University of Illinois Press)...
Sunday, July 19, 2020

Westworld Complements Game of Thrones

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Ramin Djawadi turns 46 years old today. He wrote the main theme for the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011–2019). Below is a transcription ...
Tuesday, June 16, 2020

In Psycho, Herrmann Stabs Before Mother Does

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On this day 60 years ago, Alfred Hitchcock's movie Psycho was premiered at the DeMille Theater in New York City. Among other t...