Posted on May 14, 2008 by virgomusic
NaBloPoMo Day 14!
Woo hoo! Miss Music Nerd officially passed the 5000-hit mark a coupla weeks ago, and is now closing in on 6000! So I’d like to take a moment to thank everyone who has stumbled upon my little corner of cyberspace. I hope you’ll keep coming back, and tell your friends!
And, um, [...]
Filed under: church music, humor, jazz, music | Tagged: Organ | No Comments »
Posted on January 1, 2008 by virgomusic
The end of 2007 is upon us! Hard to believe, isn’t it?
You can find plenty of New Year’s Eve playlists if you search online, and many of them are compilations of the best and/or most popular songs of 2007. (Not necessarily the same thing! )
I wanted to do something more, shall we say, [...]
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Posted on December 19, 2007 by virgomusic
Students who are new to music appreciation have a number of vocabulary challenges to deal with. Music terminology, like language in general, has developed over hundreds of years with input from vast numbers of temperamental artsy types speaking several different languages. Terms have been created ad hoc, and often remain in use for the sake [...]
Filed under: classical, hip hop, jazz, music, rap, rock, vocab | Tagged: Bass, bass guitar, double bass, Ray Brown, Frederick Charlton, John Entwhistle, Heinrich Glarean, Grandmaster Flash, Edgar Meyer, The Who | 2 Comments »
Posted on December 7, 2007 by virgomusic
McDoc and I recently installed a couple CD towers in our living room… it was way past time to get the CD’s out of the cardboard boxes! (VirgoDad was kind enough to anchor them to the wall for us while visiting from California!)
We decided to put all our CD’s together — formerly McDoc’s and formerly [...]
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