January 2011
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Jan 31st
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ListenJakob van Domselaer: Proeven van Stijlkunst, IV...
Jan 28th
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ListenGroup Ongaku: Automatism (1960; excerpt) From the...
Jan 25th
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“The Middle ages, which abounded with legends of alchemists and magicians and their synthetic creations, also produced genuine automata.  Unverifiable stories attribute to Albertus Magnus (1193?-1280), the Bavarian Scholastic philosopher, the making of an automaton that was ultimately smashed by Saint Thomas Aquinas after he had denounced it as the work of the devil.  This automaton was...
Jan 24th
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ListenClarence Barlow: Relationships for Melody...
Jan 20th
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ListenBarry Adamson: “Autodestruction” From...
Jan 15th
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ListenColin McPhee: Tabuh-Tabuhan, part I (1936) From...
Jan 13th
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Don't call it a keytar
The “Orphika,” a keyboard instrument designed to be worn on a strap over the shoulder, invented in Vienna in 1795 by Carl Leopold Röllig. Image from Alte Musikinstrumente: ein Leitfaden für Sammler by Hermann Ruth-Sommer (Berlin, 1916)
Jan 11th
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ListenOn January 5th, 2011, the composer Roland Kayn...
Jan 7th
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Jan 6th
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ListenJohannes Ockeghem (attributed): Deo gratias From...
Jan 3rd
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