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By Stephen Wilcox|2017-03-22T00:11:05+00:00July 8th, 2016|Background|

This post will discuss the basics of Chinese music theory (Yuelü), the very "tip of the proverbial iceberg." In the context of a blog post, it is simply not possible to detail the richness and depth of the Chinese [...]

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Pitch: It’s All Relative
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Pitch: It’s All Relative

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Pitch: It’s All Relative

By Stephen Wilcox|2016-11-08T10:04:29+00:00June 25th, 2016|Background|

Tuning Forks, invented 1711 by John Shore When an "A" (A4) is played on a piano, whether in Taiwan or California, the resultant musical tone will almost certainly be vibrating at 440hz (440 vibrations per second). [...]

Thinking About Transitions
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Thinking About Transitions

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Thinking About Transitions

By Stephen Wilcox|2016-06-09T07:44:59+00:00June 8th, 2016|Background|

Relaxed in Taiwan My life seems to be all transitions recently. In Western music, transitions are sections of music characterized by harmonic motion and nonthematic passagework; passages of musical instability between sections of stability. Dharma Drum Mountain [...]

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Currently living and studying Buddhist Music at Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts, I am doing my best to learn all I can about this amazing liturgy. I received a B.M. in instrumental performance (tuba) and a B.M. in music theory from West Chester University, a M.M. in Composition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an M.Ed in Instructional Design, as well as a Ph.D. in Composition at the University of Pennsylvania. Most recently, he has been creating online music theory courses for Rutgers University, working as an instructional designer at UC Berkeley, and blogging at about music and technology (http://musictoolbox.org) His dissertation, Cho-Han, was performed by Osmo Vänska and the Minnesota Orchestra as part of the 2007 Minnesota Orchestra Composer’s Institute. A BMI award winner and MacDowell Fellow, he attended the Summer Composition Workshop in Hoy, Scotland, where he worked with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. His other honors include awards from the Arts Fund, NACUSA, New Music Delaware, “Friends and Enemies of New Music”, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Prism Saxophone quartet.

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