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The Arts

The Arts

The Arts, including literature, music, visual arts, poetry, and music.
  • The efficient and graceful use of the body is crucial to both sports and musical performance. But there are certainly many mental parallels as well.
  • The efficient and graceful use of the body is crucial to both sports and musical performance. But there are certainly many mental parallels as well.
  • Our notions of “truth” in the history of musical ideas and performance practice may not always be quite as solid as we think.
  • Our notions of “truth” in the history of musical ideas and performance practice may not always be quite as solid as we think.
  • Cello students everywhere have struggled with Popper’s “High School of Cello Playing,” a book of études that’s a kind of Mount Everest of cello technique.
  • Cello students everywhere have struggled with Popper’s “High School of Cello Playing,” a book of études that’s a kind of Mount Everest of cello technique.
  • Counterpoint, also called polyphony, is the art, in musical composition, of combining two or more simultaneous lines of music.
  • Counterpoint, also called polyphony, is the art, in musical composition, of combining two or more simultaneous lines of music.
  • Pizzicato is the Italian word for “plucked.” Why is pizzicato never translated? Beats me. Maybe just because pizzicato is a delightful-sounding word. It certainly sounds better than “plucked.”
  • Pizzicato is the Italian word for “plucked.” Why is pizzicato never translated? Beats me. Maybe just because pizzicato is a delightful-sounding word. It certainly sounds better than “plucked.”