As mentioned earlier, my current study method bears strong resemblance to a shotgun blast. As due dates draw nearer I will have to focus on one or two subject matters. Most schools want between twenty-five and forty pages worth of original writing. In that vein, it’s time to put Indian classical music to further investigation. [...]
Tonight, in addition to my usual shotgun study method of reading straight through copies of the journal Ethnomusicology, I made a foray into the self-reflective side of the discipline. Why in the world, many of you may ask, do you want to study that? What does it even mean? Every time I sit down to [...]
Léon Theremin patented the aetherphone (later to be known as the theremin) in 1928. His instrument originally enjoyed use in film starting from the 30′s, the earliest example of which is the soundtrack for 1931′s Odna, written by Soviet composer Dimitri Shostakovitch. More familiar to current day listeners and moviegoers might be Hitchcock’s Spellbound (1945). [...]
