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Listening Tips: Modern and Contemporary Music

Listening Tips: Modern and Contemporary Music

FromAttention to Detail: The Classical Music Listening Guide


Listening Tips: Modern and Contemporary Music

FromAttention to Detail: The Classical Music Listening Guide

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Length:
41 minutes
Released:
Nov 14, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

We finish our series on era-specific listening tips by exploring the most challenging and diverse sub-genre of classical music, Modern/Contemporary music! Modern music often proves to be especially challenging for new listeners, and can be a big turn-off at classical concerts, but we are here to give you five tips that will help to better understand and appreciate listening to music from this fantastic era!
Tip 1: Listen with an open mind (4:06)
Tip 2: Appreciating the tonality-atonality spectrum (8:00)
Tip 3: Hearing rhythmic figures and gestures (18:48)
Tip 4: Noticing different sound qualities and colors (24:28)
Tip 5: Asking yourself philosophical, abstract questions that are provoked by the music (30:18)
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Released:
Nov 14, 2020
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Classical music can be intimidating to newcomers and frequent concertgoers alike. Attention to Detail introduces practical techniques for finding meaning, enjoyment, and confidence in the process of listening to classical music that everyone can use, regardless of background.