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The extended grand piano
In addition to being an eLinguist, I’m also a musician, and so sometimes music stories catch my eye — or ear, as it may be. I heard this story on NPR this morning: Most pianos have 88 keys. And most...
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solfège and morphology
If you know anything about music, you probably know solfège. For a major scale, one can sing the notes using the syllables do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ti-do. This system was made popular by The Sound of Music....
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behind and below
In a recent trombone sectional for the band I play in, sectionmate P (who is a recent convert from the viola) expressed confusion at sectionleader J’s description of our need to “play behind the...
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concert time
Sometimes (okay, actually quite often) I play the trombone. Since I started graduate school, I’ve been playing in a quite excellent community band. The music isn’t terribly challenging — maybe a couple...
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lessons
As an undergraduate (it feels like a previous life sometimes), I was a music major. I spent the first two years of my undergrad experience immersed in the life of a musician – lessons every week,...
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