Monteverdi for Christmas

I haven’t posted here in a while; I just have been too preoccupied to keep up. I also temporarily forgot this blog existed, so sorry about that.

Well, today is Christmas, so hopefully everyone is having a good holiday season. This post isn’t much, but I’d like to share this (more…)

The Music Animation Machine

Recently, while looking around for music to listen to, I stumbled across the YouTube channel of Stephen Malinowski (YouTube user smalin). I wasn’t initially sure about his videos, but now I find them to be incredible visualisations of many pieces of classical music. All of the software used to make his videos was entirely self-written, and they produce incredibly beautiful depictions of the melodic contours of the music. Many of his videos, especially the earliest ones, read like some sort of bar-graph score, with the placement of the bars on a (more…)

Compositional Highlights: Domenico Scarlatti

Hello and welcome to my blog! Please see the About page for more info about myself and my blog. So, to start this off, I’ll begin with a wonderful composer who is perhaps better known than many of the rest I will cover in this blog – Domenico Scarlatti.

Scarlatti was born in 1685, in Naples, Italy, the same year as Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Frideric Handel, the two great Baroque composers. I do feel that he is, unjustly, less popular than the other two, likely because a vast majority of his music was written for keyboard. His father, (more…)