The Scotch Snap: everything you needed to know, and a hundred more questions
Scotch Snaps: The Big Picture from Philip Tagg on Vimeo. This is probably the most interesting video I’ve ever seen on a musical question. If you want to know why,…
Conference on musical improvisation
Interesting conference coming up in September 10th – 13th this year at Oxford University – Perspectives on Musical Improvisation. I’m half tempted to submit a proposal for a paper, since…
The Steamboat, the Nutcracker and Bon voyage, cher Dumollet
On Christmas day of all days, I’ve had possibly the most interesting comment ever posted on my blog with regard to the score of the Nutcracker. Jesse Kleinman has pointed…
Trolololo sheet music for piano
Before you get excited, I haven’t got it, but I have found the first page of it here. I tried searching for the original title “я очень рад ведь я…
At last: a picture of a mirliton
I can’t tell you how pleased I am about this: Here, on a site dedicated to the iconography of the bagpipe, are two pictures of mirlitons (scroll down to see…
IT tips #14: Use Delicious to store and access web links anywhere
You might think that having a website is all about self-promotion, but the reason I got a website in the first place was to solve a particular problem: I wanted…