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10/12/2010
There's a magic to the very best children's music, words and melodies coming together in a way that can make even the crankiest kid smile and dance. We're betting that these 25 greatest songs can wake …
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10/12/2010
Reared on the extended sonic excursions of The Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers, jam bands have, over the course of the genre's 15-year lifetime, added world-beat, jazz, and bluegrass flavors to t …
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10/12/2010
These are the performances etched on every jazzbo's DNA. Who hasn't heard the late Paul Desmond's hella-cool counterpoint to Brubeck's stylish piano on "Take Five"? Or Gene Krupa's most-famous-e …
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10/12/2010
The greatest gospel cuts have always been the ones that focus on feeling, not format. That can mean Reverend Al Green putting a little hip-shaking Memphis mojo on "Be With Me Jesus." It can mean the ga …
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10/12/2010
If you want to take a walk into the house that gospel built, you've got to get to know the architecture from the ground up. These are the bricks that set a firm foundation for all those who sing straig …
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10/12/2010
Not all folk songs have words, and not all folk songs, strictly speaking, are folk songs. For instance the melody for "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" was originally part of Bach's Cantata No. 147, but Le …
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10/12/2010
Many people, especially academics and musicologists, have debated just exactly what constitutes folk music; leave it to a science fiction writer, Robert A. Heinlein, to come up with the most elegant an …
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10/12/2010
Our Basics will give you a quick fly-by of the last, oh, 12 centuries of music. Not an easy feat for 25 tracks, trying to take you from the cloistered world of eighth-century Gregorian monks to the ele …
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10/12/2010
The human voice is the most expressive and versatile instrument known to mankind. From Gregorian chant to dramatic opera and beyond, song has played an essential part in music-making throughout the wor …
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