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Some great composers have been pioneers and musical radicals, and some have been fundamentally conservative. Max Bruch was a conservative to his bones, and it served him well. He established his...
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Atonality and dissonance are often linked in listeners’ minds, but they’re not the same thing. Dissonance, from the Latin words for “sounding” and “apart,” is the simultaneous sounding of two or more...
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Atonal music is music that isn’t written in a key, music that doesn’t follow the traditional rules of harmony. But although the term “atonal” tells us what a piece isn’t, it doesn’t tell us what it is...
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The members of the modern violin family are the violin, viola, cello, and double bass. These instruments are descendants of various kinds of medieval fiddles—fiddle, by the way, being an older word...
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Have you ever wondered how the violin came to play such an important role in the history of classical music? Well, it starts with singing. The invention of opera, in late 16th century Florence, marks...
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The modern oboe most likely originated in France in the 1600's. The word oboe, which is the instrument’s name in both English and Italian, comes from the French name, hautbois, meaning “high wood,” or...
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In operatic singing, there are three principal voice types for women. From high to low, they are soprano, mezzo-soprano—mezzo meaning “middle” in Italian—and contralto. The ranges of these voices...
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“V” is for Vesta Mills of Charleston. In 1899, Spartanburg textile manufacturer John Montgomery and New York merchant Seth Milliken purchased the Charleston Cotton Mills and renamed it Vesta Mills...
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Gullah story featuring a character named Dr. McClellan. A translation of the Gullah is provided at the end
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Some needlepoint seat cushions that were found covered in mud after Hugo
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Gullah story with punchline featuring a man named Efram
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Mr. Morrison invented the turtle excluder, a device for fishing nets that allows turtles to escape while keeping the fish
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Story of girls whose mother didn’t want them to speak Gullah
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Resident of McClellanville, SC (Charleston County). She grew up learning to speak Gullah and tells jokes and stories in the Gullah language.
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Mr. Morrison invented the turtle excluder, a device for fishing nets that allows turtles to escape while keeping the fish
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Her house was disassembled and moved from its original location, then reassembled
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Resident of McClellanville, SC (Charleston County). She grew up learning to speak Gullah and tells jokes and stories in the Gullah language.
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Mr. Morrison invented the turtle excluder, a device for fishing nets that allows turtles to escape while keeping the fish
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Mr. Morrison invented the turtle excluder, a device for fishing nets that allows turtles to escape while keeping the fish
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Mr. Morrison invented the turtle excluder, a device for fishing nets that allows turtles to escape while keeping the fish