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Sonic Gem: The 1950s – Ten For Ten
This decade’s music was dominated by rock-n-roll; doo-wop, pop, swing, rhythm and blues, blues, country and rockabilly. The playlist below offers the top ten songs in the United States for each year of this decade. Enjoy!!
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Tagged Blues, Country, Doo-Wop, Music, Pop, Rhythm and Blues, Rock, Rockabilly, Sonic Gem, Swing, Ten For Ten, The 1950s, Thought For the Day
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One Thousand Recordings – ABBA – Gold
Tonight, we begin a new aspect of Aloha Promises Forever. We are going to explore recordings that it is said that we should all hear before we die. Tonight, we are starting with Abba. This is a group that most … Continue reading
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Tagged ABBA, Craftsmanship, Dancing Queen, Gold, Hall of Fame, Harmony, Mamma Mia!, Music, Pop Music, Recordings, Waterloo
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Thought For the Day: The Classical Guitar Has Its Own Dynamic
“The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You know, there’s times when you should play and there’s times when you gotta hold back. It’s an extremely dynamic instrument.” – Steve … Continue reading
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Tagged Classical Guitar, Dynamic, Music, Steve Vai, Theory, Thought For the Day
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Book of Psalms
The Book of Psalms or Tehillim meaning praises is the first book of the Ketuvim (“Writings“). This is the third section of the Hebrew Bible which to a Christian, of course, is known as the Old Testament. The title derives from Greek instrumental music … Continue reading
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Tagged David, Harvard Classics, Ketuvim, Lyrics, Music, Old Testament, Psalms, Tehillim
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Quintessential Jazz I
As part of the musical education of my daughters, I am making certain that they are exposed to music that I believe is essential to understanding modern music. In that, I have taken some time to compile three musical play … Continue reading
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Tagged American Music, Genre, Jazz, Jazz Age, Music, Playlist, Syncopation
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Instrumental Blues – Part I
Early on when I started discovering that I liked playing more than classical, I started developing an interest in the blues and then blues rock before even the jazz then progressive hard rock periods of my life. Now, I mainly … Continue reading
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Tagged Blues, Blues Rock, Memories, Music, Musical Education, Shared, Universal Language
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WordPress #Daily Prompt – Symphony
Transposed Score For a Broken Symphony by Michael Romani There in the notes is the sound Seen for all that it might be Taken around and around In a score for a broken symphony …
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Tagged Broken, Daily Prompt, Music, Photo, Poem, Score, Symphony, Wordpress
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Great American Songbook
The musical canon of important and influential popular and jazz standards from early to mid-20th century is known as either the Great American Songbook or alternatively simply the ‘American Standards’. This cannon is loosely defined but contains the most enduring songs … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: Music Is the Silence
“Music is the silence between the notes.” – Claude Debussy
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Tagged Claude Debussy, Impressionism, Music, Notes, Silence, Thought For the Day
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 