Dan Kreider gives us another essay – this one about the essence of rhythm: it’s essential that we transmit the essence of the indicated rhythm – not merely the mathematically correct moment for the musical events. The details of rhythmic units are usually easily identified and altered to convey the meaning behind their construction. Of […]
Music scholarship online
Jennifer Howard, from The Chronicle of Higher Education, alerted me to this discussion regarding how technology intersects with the scholarly aspects of music making: The ‘content focus’ is a set of editorial projects that implement digital technology in different scholarly disciplines: specifically literary and cultural studies, history, classics, archaeology, and music. While the technical features […]
More iPad for the Choral Musician
ChoralNet member Robert Eaton sent me a link to this website following my blog post yesterday on the iPad. forScore, an upcoming app for the iPad, describes itself this way: forScore was designed as a way to take thousands of pages of score with you on the go. With innovative features like the audible […]
iPad for the Choral Director
I didn’t know that I was going to buy the iPad when I entered the Apple store – I told myself I was going to “look.” Something took hold of me about 10 seconds after I walked in and I knew that I would be purchasing the device. I love it. It is more […]