Music Publishing: Looking to the Future Music publishing is an exciting and fast-paced industry touching all our lives, whether as performers, composers, or music lovers listening in the ca...
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Unheard voices: overcoming barriers in women’s music composition Until recently, women were regularly dismissed as unable to compose music. In 1894, the French physician Havelock Ellis sa...
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The musician’s journey: preparing our students as entrepreneurs Today, our college and university music students are facing a rapidly changing global market place. There are new technolog...
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Cello and the human voice: A natural pairing I’ve heard the phrase “It’s the instrument most like the human voice and that’s why it’s so expressive” countless times over the yea...
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Chick Webb meets Chick Webb: Fact and fiction in James McBride’s new novel Chick Webb’s drumbeats resonate through much of James McBride’s fast-paced new novel "The Heaven & Earth Gro...
Vaughan Williams’ Four Last Songs: “letting go” of the music Jonathan Wikeley explores Vaughan Williams's "Four Last Songs", looking at the textual meaning, the process of ar...
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A listener’s guide to The Subversive Seventies What songs would revolutionaries in the 1970s have listened to and identified with? Listen to the playlist and trace the political history ...
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The joy of playing duets "There is an irresistible appeal to playing with another musician." In this blog post, Kathy Blackwell discusses the history of duet playing in classical music, and...
On specters and spectacle: tales of two Eurovisions, Liverpool-Ukraine 2023 Phantoms from the past, ghosts of the present, specters of the future, all gathered on 13 May to haunt the Eurovi...
A listener’s guide to Rhythm Man Explore the musical legacy of the Swing Era's pioneering virtuoso drummer and bandleader, Chick Webb! Listen to the playlist and read about each...
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Music for Prime Time: 15 of the greatest TV themes Music composed for television had, until recently, never been taken seriously by scholars or critics. Catchy TV themes, often for...
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Nicholas Bugsworthy: an unknown Tudor composer? Simon Wright digs into the curious history of an almost forgotten Tudor composer, Nicholas Bugsworthy. Thanks to an insert in OUP's in-house ...
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“Through Gilded Trellises”: a reflection on one hundred years of Façade The making of Façade “Poetry is more like a crystal globe, with Truth imprisoned in it, like a fly ...
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Five things musicians should know about the brain Understanding brain basics can help us study and teach music with greater efficiency and confidence, thus giving us more freedom in perform...
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Grove Music’s 2023 spoof article contest is now open! The Grove Music Online spoof article contest is now open for 2023! OUPblog - Academic insights for the thinking world.
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A Winter Breviary: Q&A with poet Rebecca Gayle Howell A Winter Breviary is a triptych of carols that tells the story of a person walking in the woods on solstice night. This pilgri...
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From orchestra to cello solo: the gentle art of arranging music Art has always been transformed from one form to another: books to films, plays to operas, even music to novels—Beethoven�...
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Ralph Vaughan Williams: preserving the publishing legacy In the Vaughan Williams's 150th anniversary year, his primary publisher Oxford University Press are donating around 60 items to the ...
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Eight composers whose music we should know From Teresa Carreno to Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, this blog post features composers who experienced barriers to music education within their lifetim...
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Memorable years, formative years: why do boys stop singing in their teens? There are many adult men who sang as small boys but now either don’t sing at all or who have had long gaps in th...
Why we all need more Lesbian Dance Theory Last month a Member of Congress joined Fox News to claim President Joe Biden is “robbing hard working Americans to pay for Karen’s daughter’s...
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Ralph Vaughan Williams and the art of the amateur Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) was one of the twentieth century’s great champions of and advocates for amateur music-making. Explor...
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Comparing Woolf’s Jacob’s Room and Beethoven’s Third How does the formal originality of Jacob’s Room, its dark tenor, fit into the arc of Woolf’s career? I found unexpec...
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A summer playlist inspired by Oxford World’s Classics To help curate your summer playlist and reading list, here are 10 songs and Oxford World’s Classics we recommend you add to your ro...
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Classical music, privilege, and ghosts of the French Revolution The word privilege is a lightning rod in United States culture. For some, it indexes systemic inequities shaped by race, ethn...
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