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What is the genre or type of music from Don't Starve?
The original soundtrack for Don't Starve
I have heard the type of music before in other video games such as Contrast
Contrast Soundtrack: Main Attraction
and also in the Darkmoon faire area in World of Wacraft
Carousel Music
The common theme is the…
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What is the difference between Trap and Drill?
What is the difference between the "Trap" and "Drill" subgenres of rap music? Both sound very similar.
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In which ragams do Ganesh and Kumaresh play kalpana swarams for the pallavi in *Shantham*?
The Carnatic violin duo Ganesh and Kumaresh released a 2-disc album titled Shantham in 2002, Shruthilaya Audio Recording.
The first track of disc 2 is a pallavi ("Un tiruvadi en gati") in the ragam Sankarabharanam set to Adi talam. They play kalpana…
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Is this string instrument making a trill sound?
https://youtu.be/H8e0PFMo_6E?list=LL8veiH4tExKaroj4Tif84cw&t=530
8:50~8:53
is this sound a trill? what bowing technique is it?
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Will Queen Release Some Kind of Anthology of Unreleased Material Soon?
Many fans, including myself, have been waiting for a long time to some kind of Queen Anthology of unreleased material (demos, excerpts, alternate versions), since there is SO MUCH material that they could release, but this release seems that it will…
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Peppertones "Salary" - Harmonic syncopation in swing rhythm
https://youtu.be/p8U4b9yVyx4
This song's rhythm section consists of 3 instruments: drum, bass, and an acoustic guitar.
When anticipation/syncopation happens with harmonic rhythm (Chord changes one triplet beat earlier than downbeat), usually drum,…
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Genre of "Peppertones - Close up the world"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl5dcwtgSVI
I am trying to find more songs with this rhythm (drum and bass) and arrangement style.
Can you help me figure out what songs/genres have used similar licks, chord progression, the arrangement style used in…
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Original "Glory To The Sun" Russian folk song used as a theme in Beethoven String Quartet No. 8 and others
In String Quartet No. 8, Beethoven made use of a Russian theme based on the folk song (or hymn) "Glory To The Sun". Other composers also used this song as a theme: Mussorgski in "Boris Gudunov", Arenski in "String Quartet No. 2", Rachmaninoff in "6…
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Name of music in commercial 2 for mermaid scar
What is the name of the musical piece from commercial # 2 of the anime “mermaids scar”?
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What's the origin of the phrase "Rise Up Singing"?
There's a famous song book called "Rise Up Singing."
That expression appears in the lyric of Summertime, from Porgy and Bess. I wonder whether that's the whole story of the phrase (it was created by Gershwin), or whether the phrase has a longer…
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Tracking down Berklee College student recordings
My middle school band teacher, who introduced me to jazz, was a Berklee alumnus, and had an outstanding album which included a number of Quincy Jones pieces recorded and arranged by Berklee students (including himself).
I had a cassette dub of this…
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Did Sidney Bechet "study" with Lorenzo Tio Jr.?
Did Sidney Bechet "study" with Lorenzo Tio Jr.?
To my knowledge, they associated with each other, but I don't know about studied with in the way that Dodds or Bigard did.
The wikipedia article asserts that Bechet indeed studied with him. Is there…
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About Patti Smith's song "Rock N Roll Nigger"
I listened to Patti Smith's song Rock N Roll Nigger. The lyrics include a lot of a word "nigger". This is a derogatory term for African-American, isn't it?
Did she use it on purpose? What is her intention of using it? Did it become a problem at…
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What is the meaning of "Jigolo har Megiddo"?
I tried to search and translate the words of this song title by Ghost, "Jigolo har Megiddo."
I couldn’t find anything, I couldn’t even figure out the language, I guess Italian?! What is the meaning of it?
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Why were so many classic rock musicians born between 1945 and 1950?
There are numerous classic rock musicians, such as Don Henley, Bob Seger, and Tom Petty, who were born between 1945 and 1950, with an occasional odd bird like Roger Waters or Paul McCartney born slightly earlier (1943 and 1942). Why the cluster…
