What Music Are You Listening to Right Now?
Is music a big part of your life?What are your favorite songs? How do you discover new music?Do you ever recommend songs to your friends? If so, you are not too different from Jon Pareles, the chief pop music critic at The New York Times. In “5 Songs to Listen to Right Now,” he shares…
Conor O’Loughlin: “You form friendships very easily through music.”
Conor O’Loughlin is a concertina player from Corofin in County Clare. He has been playing since he was 8 years old and has won a host of prizes both individually and with bands at All-Ireland Fleadhs over the years. Born into a musical family in Ireland’s musical heartlands, Conor also has a passion for passing…
Unlock Your Potential: Learn Irish Music Online
Are you thinking of taking up a musical instrument? Can you already play some tunes but want to improve? Do you struggle to find the time or budget to commit to paid lessons? You can now perfect your playing skills with free online Irish Traditional Music courses in the most popular instruments. Discover the joy…
Alison traditional Irish music courses prove a hit!
Earlier this year Alison launched the Traditional Irish Music Hub in collaboration with some of Ireland’s finest musicians. Drawing on the very best talent in traditional Irish music, Alison crafted a series of courses covering all of the genre’s major instruments, including fiddle, concertina and bodhrán. The courses have been already been enjoyed by thousands…
Learn to Play an Irish Instrument
Unleash the sound of music for Christmas and New Year Are you getting a musical instrument for Christmas? How about your new year resolutions? Will they include mastering an instrument? Research shows that learning an instrument can improve cognitive function and benefit the brain, no matter what age you begin learning. Apart from boosting your…
Lesson of the Day: ‘How Pop Music Fandom Became Sports, Politics, Religion and All-Out...
Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “How Pop Music Fandom Became Sports, Politics, Religion and All-Out War” by Joe CoscarelliOn social media in 2020, “the stan was ascendant,” reports Joe Coscarelli, a Times culture reporter. How did music fan culture…
Heritage Day: A Celebration of Culture and Traditions
South Africa is a country known for its history, rich cultural diversity, and heritage. It’s a melting pot of cultures and where the social and cultural interactions among its various ethnic groups make South Africa a unique and vibrant mosaic of traditions and customs. In this article, we’ll look at why Heritage Day is important…
Making an Argument Via Descriptive Detail: Music Reviews
Now read something written by a student. In her 2018 winning entry, Isabella Levine reviews “Anthem of the Peaceful Army,” the debut album by the rock band Greta Van Fleet. Here’s the sentence at the end of the first paragraph that best captures her opinion of the album: The seeds of a potential rock revival…
THE POWER OF MUSIC
Music is vocal or instrumental sound (or both) blended in such a way as to achieve beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion, according to the Oxford dictionary.“Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.”- Robert G. Ingersoll“Music is an explosive…
Music Notes
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