Feral Flute

Grave, Largo, Adagio, Andante, Moderato, Allegro, Vivace and Presto. Every semester, my class memorizes this list of Italian tempo terms ...

In the Renaissance and Baroque, recorders and flutes were given the same musical lines in ensembles and were treated as interchangeable. The...

When I was in Grad school, I worked as a teacher’s assistant for a couple of music theory classes. This mostly involved answering questions ...

All that exists remakes creation by existing. The painter, the sculptor, the gardener, the builder all transform the universe with their ta...

I love playing in pit orchestras. The combination of musicians, actors, tech folk and dancers working together creates something intense and...

On the ceiling of an early temple for Apollo in Delphi (were the Muses once lived) were the Keledones, the “soothing Goddesses.” They were ...

Lately, more attention has been given to women in music history but nearly all of it has been on the composers. So here's a little about...

Sneezing, coughing and hiccups. These are things that musicians may discuss among themselves but are usually not mentioned in books on h...

Bees were called the birds of the Muses. Honey was mixed with milk or water or grains of wheat as offerings to the Muses. ...

Busking is exhausting, too hot or too cold, noisy and the audience is often small. So why do I like it so much? For one thing it inspires...

Earlier this summer, back in the “cooler” part of the heat wave, my grandmother said this year was reminding her of the Dust Bowl days of h...

The solfege syllables are one of those commonly used and accepted ideas that seem like they have always existed. These are the familiar do,...