Author: Rachel Wells Hall
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Did Lucius Chapin write the Amazing Grace tune?
The melody sung to John Newton’s 1779 hymn “Amazing grace, how sweet the sound” is, without a doubt, America’s best-loved hymn tune. An 1828 manuscript by Lucius Chapin (1760-1842), who was famous in his day as a hymn tune writer, raises the possibility that Lucius was its composer.
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Taylor Swift’s 22
Listen for a 4 against 3 polyrhythm around 1:28
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Long-lost Shenandoah tunebook found
It’s rare to discover lost shape-note songs, let alone entire books, so I was completely floored to find that a copy of the long-lost James P. Carrell’s Songs of Zion (1821) was recently cataloged by the University of Virginia. Songs of Zion is a 64-page collection of shape-note tunes published by Ananias Davisson one year after his A Supplement…
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Do Re Mi song (The Sound of Music)
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Chladni plates and standing waves
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Dave Brubeck’s “Blue Rondo a La Turk”
Brubeck’s composition uses the rhythmic structure 2+2+2+3 repeated three times, followed by 3+3+3.
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Tabla playing
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Manjul Bhargava and tabla playing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zomqzNPiWtI
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“Random Music-Making Things”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er9M22Hil9g
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Online Sequencer
https://onlinesequencer.net