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I know the Dato Duo synth is for kids, but wow it's pretty

Edit The Verge 09 Jun 2016
Kids like music ... Dato Duo. The Dato Duo comes with a pentatonic keyboard for playing notes that can then be looped ... ....

First Listen: Allen Toussaint, 'American Tunes'

Edit National Public Radio 02 Jun 2016
i. Allen Toussaint's new album, American Tunes, comes out June 10. Courtesy of the artist hide caption ... Courtesy of the artist ... It's one of the few songs Toussaint ever wrote specifically for himself to perform (apparently inspired by fellow behind-the-scenester Van Dyke Parks' directive to "consider that you were going to die in two weeks"), and he initially saw little commercial potential for the languid pentatonic melody ... ....

‘Sorry But We Didn’t Steal This’

Edit Inquisitr 30 May 2016
Casey Dienel ... He also shared the post on his Facebook account ... — SKRILLEX (@Skrillex) May 27, 2016. Your EDM notes a user on Reddit claimed the scale of the sample used is common in music, writing, “It is a simple fragment of an ascending pentatonic scale in E flat major ... Pentatonic scales are one the most natural things human beings tend to create, going back to simple beginnings.” ... Co-writer Justin Tranter also it....

The Mini Capital Jazz Project at the Street Theatre is an eclectic mix

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 27 May 2016
But back to World War II ... Swanton says there were multiple musical references in his uncle's diary. Advertisement ... Black Jesus Experience band leader Peter Harper, who will be joined on stage with nine versatile – not to mention mobile – performers, says the Ethio-jazz experience is a heady blend of classic jazz and the pentatonic scales of traditional Ethiopian music, with multiple rhythms and time signatures running in tandem ... ....

We cover the 'Game of Thrones' theme, Chinese-style, on an iPhone

Edit Mashable 23 May 2016
What better way to review the new Chinese instruments in GarageBand than to see how well they fare at playing the Game of Thrones theme song? ... SEE ALSO ... Image. victoria ho/mashable ... Image ... The Chinese instruments are set to the pentatonic scale by default (which Classical Chinese music is set to) but since I was making them play something completely non-traditional, I had to set them to the major scale to include the extra notes needed ... ....

When gods fall

Edit The Hindu 22 May 2016
People have a tendency to follow the herd. Take music fans for example. if they really don’t like a cult artiste’s music, they are often hesitant to voice their opinion ... The guitar playing is still great; but they’re the same recycled pentatonic and blues licks that you’ve heard over and over on his albums from decades ago. But my biggest problem is that the nine other songs in the album are covers ... Keywords....

Who Speaks for the Refugee Children of Calais?

Edit CounterPunch 20 May 2016
On a recent visit to the Calais ‘jungle’ with the Calais Sessions (1) musicians I found that I was with the kind of people who had worked alongside me when I co-founded War Child over 20 years ago and at the Pavarotti Music Centre in Bosnia ... 36% of them are children ... Walked? ... After 30 minutes of C, G, A and F chords, Assi thanked me, smiled and asked if I’d like to learn Ethiopian Tizita pentatonic scales ... Notes ... ....

Stefan Wolpe’s music holds up well over the ‘test of time’

Edit The Examiner 17 May 2016
Last night at the ODC Theater, Earplay presented the last of the three concerts in its 2016 season in San Francisco. The title of the entire series was The Test of Time; and the composer being “tested,” so to speak, was Stefan Wolpe ... W ... More evident was the gamelan rhetoric that occupied much of the middle section of the composition (although these days listeners tend to react to any pentatonic passage as having gamelan origins) ... ....

It’s not all jazz, says Sello Galane

Edit Mail Guardian South Africa 17 May 2016
Kiba music proponent and one-time Malombo member Sello Galane still has it in for jazz ... “My understanding of jazz in South Africa, why this brand, I found that it makes people look cool,” he says from his office at the State Theatre in Pretoria ...   ... “At home, we’re chilled about this stuff ... “He was talking about how his music, a lot of it is centred around the pentatonic scale, which is the most predominant scale in African music ... ....

Pulsations review: New works presented by Plexus a fair effort but no real challenge

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 12 May 2016
MUSIC. PULSATIONS ★★★ ...    ... Advertisement. James Wade's The good rain knows its season illustrated a Tang Dynasty poem with amiable Orientalist suggestions, gentle pentatonic motifs its basic matter. Jesmond Grixti​ brought us into the flamboyant with his self-obsessed Ritrovandomi Perdendosi​, notable for scouring piano flourishes and a recurrent permeating rhythm ...    ... ....

How China Influenced Western Classical Music

Edit Caixin Online 07 May 2016
Missionaries, music boxes and tunes floating through streets of Chinatowns have all helped Western tradition borrow from Chinese songs. By Sheila Melvin. Western classical music has made its way into concert halls and conservatories in most major cities in China ... Juilliard in New York has 800 ... Musicologist W ... In the mid-1930s, he taught at the Shanghai Conservatory and wrote the first piano primer based on the pentatonic scale ... ....

Kronos Quartet: a microcosm of the sounds of the world

Edit The Examiner 18 Apr 2016
Every recording, project, collaboration, or concert associated with the Kronos Quartet brand is an exploration of the unusual, the un-generic, the unapologetically subversive ... On Sunday evening, The Sharon L ... The Kronos Learning Repertoire ... A balafon (13th century African wooden xylophone) virtuoso, Diabaté composed the piece on his instrument (arranged for quartet by Jacob Garchik), applying a distinctive pentatonic idiom ... ....

Ben Johnston industriously negotiates a ‘contest’ between mathematics and music

Edit The Examiner 17 Apr 2016
These involved a variety of different approaches, many of which began with folk songs based on the pentatonic scale as a point of departure. When asked what a pentatonic scale is, most people reply by saying it is what you get when you restrict yourself to the black keys of a piano keyboard ... Many instruments for folk music are limited to playing the pentatonic scale....
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