Search Me! (A Bit of Organ Curiosity!)

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, [...]

A Nerdy Playlist for New Year’s Eve

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, [...]

Music Vocab: Catching Some Bass

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 [...]

The Alphabet Makes Odd (Musical) Bedfellows!

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 [...]