Which composer links Gershwin, Ravel, Duke Ellington, Picasso, Sonny Rollins, and the Unabomber? Who else but Igor Stravinsky! Landmarks of the Twentieth century: The Rite of Spring, Les Noces, Petrushka, The Firebird sprung from his pen. His scores were ruled by hand and inked in color. Follow the link to some interesting sites that can open the door to questions, questionings, and a musical investigation.Analyses of his works, letters to his pupils, related terms, related artists, and the Floating World school of Hokusai. Start here on your own journey into the world of the Impressionists.
Neil Gaiman - author of Coraline (September 2004 column) and Neverwhere. Also the Sandman series. Seriously cool.
Kinky Friedman - country and western singer and author of a series of detective stories starring himself and his collection of Village Irregulars. His band "Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys" toured with Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson.
Notation/Sequencing Tools http://www.motu.com
Mark of the Unicorn - one of the first Macintosh music software houses. The home of Composer's Mosaic, now sadly discontinued, and Digital Performer as well as MIDI hardware for linking computers, MIDI instruments, and audio input.http://www.finalemusic.com/
Home of Fianle - industry standard notation package. There are now four flavours of music notation program from Coda - Finale 2007, the flagship; Allegro, a less powerful and less expensive version, PrintMusic!, Finale Songwriter and the free Finale NotePad. NotePad is a simple starter notation package that allows for export to web pages.http://www.smartmusic.com
Home of SmartMusic -"Students never practice alone when they have SmartMusic at home. This interactive, computer-based practice system helps students get better faster, and makes practicing more fun. With amazing accompaniments for more than 30,000 titles, challenging exercises, and the ability to record personal CDs, SmartMusic is the future of music learning."
http://www.sibelius.com/
Having begun life on the Acorn Archimedes computer, Sibelius has now become cross platform and available for the Macintosh and Windows platforms. It is billed as the "fastest,smartest, easiest scorewriter in the world." The Royal Academy of Music thinks so, as do many other professionals. Now a part of the Avid group. Newst version, Sibelius 5.0 incorporates "panorama" view to allow scoring without laying out page breaks. Worth a look!http://www.apple.com/logicpro/
Home of the powerful Logic Pro 7 and more plug in virtual instruments than you can shake a stick at. Logic Express 7 is the education version. Now owned by Apple, and the source of the iLife component GarageBand. £56 for a movie editor. photo editor, calendar, music library web page design, and audio/midi seqeuencing program. iLife - new at version '06 includes HD movie editing, scoring preview in Garageband, multrack audio recording with a suitable audio interface and notation editing in the loop editor. Put it all together and creating a podcast has never been easier. Try it, you'll like ut!
Home of Reason, ReBirth, ReCycle, ReWire, and a host of other more dance inspired pieces of software. If you use loops, this is the place to go.
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