Hammer & Jack

Tag: music history

  • "a little bird told me…"

    Yesterday, I just started reading in earnest the titanic, 5-volume, 3,856-page Oxford History of Western Music by Richard Taruskin. One tidbit I’m particularly tickled by was this account of the origin of the idiom “a little bird told me

  • "a little bird told me…"

    Yesterday, I just started reading in earnest the titanic, 5-volume, 3,856-page Oxford History of Western Music by Richard Taruskin. One tidbit I’m particularly tickled by was this account of the origin of the idiom “a little bird told me

  • Beck's Song Reader

    Man, do I love this project.  In December 2012, Beck is set to release an “album” of sheet music. From the project page at publisher McSweeney’s: In the wake of Modern Guilt and The Information, Beck’s latest album comes in an almost-forgotten form—twenty songs existing only as individual pieces of sheet music, never before released or recorded. Complete with…

  • From Comic Con to Opera Seria

    This night… we went to the Opera, which are Comedies & other plays represented in Recitative Music by the most excellent Musitians vocal & Instrumental, together with variety of Seeanes painted & contrived with no lesse art of Perpective, and Machines, for flying in the aire, & other wonderfull motions. So taken together it is…