When I was a teenager, in the 1960s, the future lay ahead: student revolts demanded a better distribution between young and old and between the genders. The moon landing promised a brilliant technical development. Rock and pop music broke the shackles of tradition.
Is the future in the past? Weiterlesen »
God in human form admonished a wooden bearer to honour Sunday. He fends off and means “Sunday or moon day doesn’t matter to him”. God curses him to stand eternally as a man in the moon. There are many such and similar stories about the “man in the moon”. The
The man in the moon – 50 years moon landing Weiterlesen »
Eibl’s numerous compositions and instrumentations have found and continue to find particular favour at home and abroad. He also won several composition prizes. Among other things, he also wrote a textbook for wind conductors and made an instructional video. In 1957 he joined the Salzburg Military Music as a clarinetist.
Prof. Hans Eibl died Weiterlesen »
Tags make it easier for you to search for program topics that go beyond the normal search in subcategories (film music, overtures, waltzes, etc.). Since our last newsletter, members have suggested numerous subject areas that have since been added to a “tags list”. This is now provisionally available and it
“Good Tags” – Episode Three Weiterlesen »
Advertising is annoying…but isn’t this letter also advertising? No, this is information from your “Society for Music Information” as operator of the sheet music database www.musicainfo.net. And this letter is to inform you that with over 10,700 Concertband works many data were supplemented, namely:
Advertising is annoying…. Weiterlesen »
The German composer and arranger Roland Kreid passed away on 22 May 2019. Born in Langenbach near Karlsruhe in 1953, Roland Kreid was already a member of the local music club at the age of 11. Due to his particularly good talent Roland Kreid joined the military music of the
German composer Roland Kreid died Weiterlesen »
Baton Music was founded in 1996 by Jos van de Braak and Paul Gofers and has since developed into a publishing house specialising in classical music arrangements for wind orchestras. Baton Music’s arrangements are now played all over the world and have earned themselves a unique position. Baton Music specializes
Baton – The foundation of a sophisticated concert Weiterlesen »
“Fake news is fake news. Messages that want to influence, messages that push the recipient in a certain direction. In former times this was called “propaganda”. The communists made propaganda about capitalism and vice versa…
“Fake News” in the sheet music database? Weiterlesen »
So, is the team of www.musicainfo.net on the lazy skin? Do they indulge in idleness? What’s the matter, I can’t find last week’s new release in the sheet music database! Someone might think this, if new releases are not immediately found in your music information database. The motto of our
We are not the fastest…. Weiterlesen »
Was it the cool May in Central Europe or were there other reasons for the numerous new publications of the month of May – nobody knows. In order to give you a better overview, these novelties are sorted below for the individual orchestra forms and instrument groups. Starting with symphonic
May 2019 – more than 170 new publications Weiterlesen »
