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If I told you about a letter from a famous composer to his employers, a letter in which the composer complained that he needed a higher salary because…

Hello Gardeners, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow. When taking botany with Dr. John Nelson, students endure such puns as his…

I wonder what today’s voice teachers would think of the composer Gioacchino Rossini’s ideas for a vocal training curriculum. According to Rossini,…

Plank roads enjoyed a brief popularity in the early 1850s, touted as an inexpensive and effective means of improving short-distance travel. Thick planks…

“B” is for Blues. A powerful form of secular African American musical and cultural expression, blues developed in the South around the turn of the 20th…

“H” is for Holmes, Nickels John [1847-1919. Clergyman, educator. After attending the University of Edinburgh, Holmes taught school and practiced law, but…

I’ve been talking this week about vibrato, the vibrato that string players use to warm up their sounds, and the vocal vibrato that’s the natural product…

For centuries, composers of classical music have been borrowing and adapting ideas and styles from popular music. Renaissance composers, for example,…

Counterpoint, also called polyphony, is the art, in musical composition, of combining two or more simultaneous lines of music. The word counterpoint comes…

“B” is for Bluffton [Beaufort County, pop. 1,275]. Bluffton originated as a summer resort for antebellum plantation owners of St. Luke’s Parish in…