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Questions about the music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music during a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times.

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How did JS Bach improvise?

We may not know from recordings how JS Bach improvised but we can make some guesses. Bach played the organ in churches and so we might rightfully guess that the current practice of European church or …
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What made Mozart unique as an improviser?

Here's Robert Levin lecturing on "Improvising Mozart".
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What made Mozart unique as an improviser?

Robert Levin states that Mozart improvised and has devised his own form of Mozart-like improvisation. What is known of Mozart's improvisation technique?
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Does improvisation in the classical idiom differ significantly from jazz and folk improvisat...

How do musicians who actually improvise in classical music, such as Robert Levine, JS Bach, Edgar Meyer, church organists and classical ballet pianists, compose in the moment? Are there any fundament …
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Does improvisation in the classical idiom differ significantly from jazz and folk improvisat...

"Fundamental differences" is something that is open to interpretation. Jazz, a great-great-great-great step-grandchild of classical music certainly shares some of the rich musical heritage of Europea …
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How did JS Bach improvise?

Before his compositions were rediscovered, JS Bach was not known as a composer (as CPE Bach was) but as one of the foremost improvisers and performers of his time. What is known about JS Bach's impro …
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What are the rules of Third Stream composition?

In 1961, Gunther Schuller defined Third Stream as "a new genre of music located about halfway between jazz and classical music". Schuller stated what Third Stream music is not It is not jazz with s …
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What is the best way to create a Midi file of transcription of orchestral score from audio o...

It's quite a bit of work, but if you can sight-read the sheet music even at a very slow tempo, you could play a MIDI keyboard to input the MIDI data part-by-part into a digital audio workstation (DAW) …
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What is the preferred musicology term for "classical music"?

I prefer "Euroclassical" as described by Philip Tagg in his book Everyday Tonality II: EUROCLASSICAL adj. mus. neol. (2008) belonging to or having the characteristics of European classical music (a.k …
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How can I get a violin sound from my electric guitar?

If you can play the parts on the unwound high E string, you can use a fiddle bow, as Jimmy Page did. Just remember to rosin the bow and use a cheap one as the guitar strings are hard on the horsehair …
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