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The Nature of Music lecture series – Gresham College

The Nature of Music lecture series – Gresham College

Professor Milton Mermikides has completed his inaugural lecture series at Gresham College. The Nature of Music examines how music exploits our innate and highly evolved listening faculties in order to communicate complex and otherwise inexpressible emotions. Using a diverse range of examples – from Bach to Beatles, Bossa to Björk, Bartók to Billie Holliday – we explore the universal building blocks of prediction, rhythm, pitch, scale, dissonance and multiplicity in the musical experience. The complete series is now available to…

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Katalin Koltai gave lecture-recital,’New soundscapes on the Ligeti Guitar: Bartók, Chopin, Kurtág and Mulvey’ at the Guitar Foundation of America 2022 Convention

Katalin Koltai gave lecture-recital,’New soundscapes on the Ligeti Guitar: Bartók, Chopin, Kurtág and Mulvey’ at the Guitar Foundation of America 2022 Convention

AbstractThis lecture-recital explores a new world of guitar sonorities through novel arrangements; Chopin: Berceuse Op. 57, Saariaho: Nocturne and Kurtág: Ligatura Y performed on a new instrument prototype, the ‘Ligeti Guitar’.In collaboration with the Altamira Guitar Foundation, Hanson Yao and Oren Myers, the ‘Ligeti guitar’ was developed in 2021. The new prototype integrates an adjustable magnet capo system into a transformed fretboard. Koltai designed the magnet capo system originally as a new set of partial capos (2018-2020), also presented in…

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