Tag Archives: Music

The Black Dress

This is a scene I wanted to include in my novel “My Memories of a Future Life.” Briefly, the narrator is a musician who is injured, and is clinging to the hope that rest will cure her. In the early part of the novel she is making bargains with fate–if she rests, the universe will give her back her playing and her life.

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Can You Be Too Passionate About Music?

“Why some performers’ attitudes may hurt them.”
Becoming a professional musician requires an incredible amount of work, and having a passion for music can help motivate the many required hours of practice. But can a passion for music also be destructive?

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Music Appreciation: TEDxAmsterdam 2011 – Henkjan Honing

Henkjan Honing cites studies and engages his audience in auditory participation to shed light on how absolute pitch is very common and relative pitch is very special and fundamental in music appreciation.

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