(Jo-van’-ne Bat-tes’-ta Mär-te’-ne) 1706–84 Italian theorist and composer Padre Martini, as he was always known, was the most influential theorist and musical thinker of his time. He was born in Bologna, traditionally a centre of learning, where he studied with his father and leading musicians before entering a monastery. He returned to Bologna as organist and then as ...
Records, gaining much valuable studio experience. In 1967, he formed Sly and The Family Stone. Band members – Freddie Stone (guitar), Rose Stone (keyboards), Cynthia Robinson (trumpet), Jerry Martini (sax), Larry Graham (bass), Greg Errico (drums) – came from several racial backgrounds, and they made a big impression on the emerging West Coast psychedelic scene. Their second LP ...
Mozart’s. Recommended Recording: Una cosa rara, soloists, Reial de Catalunya, Concert des Nations (dir) Jordi Savall (Astrée) Introduction | Classical Era | Classical Personalities | Giovanni Battista Martini | Classical Era | Classical ...
In the wake of the pyrotechnic manifesto that Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker and Dizzy Gillespie jointly issued on their first recording together in 1945, most musicians on the New York jazz scene began fanning the flames of bebop. Tempos picked up speed, intensity increased on the bandstand and blazing virtuosity became a means to an end, in a fiery ...
was dilettantish rather than authentic, presenting snapshots of far-off countries or future worlds for an audience hungry for luxurious escapism. Lounge music was later re-branded as cocktail music, martini music and lounge-core by the trendsetters who rediscovered it in the 1990s. To them, it evoked kitsch 1960s lifestyles pursued in bachelor pads stuffed with lava lamps and leopard-skin ...
in Milan that Mozart would compose the opera to open the next winter season; then they moved on – to Bologna, where Mozart visited the theorist and teacher Padre Martini, and to Rome, where he wrote out from memory, after a single hearing, the Sistine choir’s exclusive showpiece, Gregorio Allegri’s (1582–1652) Miserere. They went to ...
late eighteenth century, as Enlightenment thinking developed, that the business of writing about music for an informed public began to flourish. There were historians, such as Padre Martini in Italy, La Borde in France, Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg in Germany and Charles Burney in England; there were lexicographers; and there were theorists, eager to codify compositional ...
Alternative-rock guitarist Joey Santiago (b. 1965) was born in Manila, Philippines, to a wealthy family, who emigrated to the United States when President Marcos declared martial law. The family eventually settled in Massachusetts. Joey first played guitar at the age of nine, becoming a fan of Seventies punk and David Bowie. At the University of Massachusetts, ...
Randy Rhoads (1956–82) had a career that lasted only six years. He played with Quiet Riot and Ozzy Osbourne before dying in a plane crash in 1982. But his guitar style, which included classical influences, opened up new directions in heavy metal, and he was an acknowledged influence on a subsequent generation of guitarists, including Zakk Wylde. ...
From Port of Spain on Trinidad to Nassau in the Bahamas, from Miami through to Port-au-Prince: you are never far from a great rhythm in the Caribbean. While Jamaican reggae and Cuba’s son, mambo and salsa have been exported to the world, there is a wealth of great music on the other islands, from calypso and zouk ...
Developments in philosophy during the early decades of the eighteenth century saw rationalist and humanist ideals displacing mysticism in a new age of ‘Enlightenment’. By the middle of the century, principles of natural order and balance were being explored in the arts. Composers attempted to give a clear sense of where their music was going in terms of themes and ...
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