Music

content/memex/music/_index.md

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+title: Music
+emoji: 🎼
+summary: Sounds that sound great!
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content/memex/music/classical.md

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+title: Classical music
+summary: Western "art music" from ~10,500 HE to today.
+tags:
+- Holst
+- SimAnt
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+## Holst's Planets Suite
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+Partly because my Dad played it often, partly because Holst grew up near where I did, partly because it kicked off my teenage education in music, I will always have a special place in my heart for [The Planets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planets).
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+You should absolutely [listen to it now](https://songwhip.com/gustav-holst/holsttheplanets), particularly Jupiter, the Bringer of Jolity, and Mars, the Bringer of War (my favourites by a long way). My music teacher got us to close our eyes in our first class with him, played Mars, and asked us to describe what we thought was happening. I'll never forget the David Attenborough-esque march of the red ants I saw so vividly, clashing against the black ants as that piece sways and moves. (Perhaps I played too much [SimAnt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimAnt) that year?)

content/memex/music/pop-analysis.md

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+title: Pop music analysis
+summary: Breaking apart pop music to find out what makes great tracks tick.
+tags:
+- adam-neely
+- bossa-nova
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+## The Girl from Ipanema
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+Adam Neely is always brilliant to listen to, but [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFWCbGzxofU) about "the second most recorded song in human history", The Girl from Ipanema, is incredibly interesting! Dive in and see what you think!
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+I got to listen to a lot of Bossa Nova while I was in Brasil earlier this year, I wish I could have listened to more!
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