Sheku Kanneh-Mason, 19 years of age, is a British cellist. He grew up in Nottingham, England and he is the third of the seven children of Stuart Mason, a business manager, and Dr. Kadiatu Kanneh, a former university lecturer, and began playing the cello at the age of six, having briefly played the …

Sight reading is one of the most useful skills for a musician. The goal of sight singing is the ability to sing at first sight, with correct rhythm and pitch, a piece of music previously unknown to the performer. Accomplishing that goal demonstrates that the music symbols on paper were comprehended…

Are you a chorister? If you are a chorister or aspire to be a chorister, be a responsible one.  Chorister is a derived term of choir and the difference between chorister and choir is that chorister is a singer in a choir while choir is a singing group: group of people who sing together; company of p…

Rejoice in the Lord alway ‘The bell anthem’ is one of the most popular of his anthems of an English organist and Baroque composer of secular and sacred music, Henry Purcell. The composer set Philippians 4:4-7 into music by taken the French-influenced symphony anthem of Pelham Humfrey and added the …

The Christ  is risen! Hallelujah !! Easter is the most important and oldest festival of the Christian Church, celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ and held (in the Western Church) between March 21 and April 25, on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the northern spring equino…

Music defines the soothing tones as well as the sounds, either in a single line (melody) or more than one line (harmony), that are created by one or more instruments and/or voices, or both. It is an organized melodious sound in succession that produces a composition having unity, harmony and contin…

Chord is the basic element of harmony in music. Music contains notes in succession and notes in combination. When notes are played together at the same time, it is called harmony. A chord is simply defined as a group of notes sounded simultaneously. A group of three notes is called a triad. Commonl…

Are you into music? If yes, be a musical literate! To understand the theoretical principles of music and to communicate between one another as a musician, we need precisely such a form of notation. Similar to our ordinary everyday writing, music is also a language. Some people have to get by with sp…

CLASSICAL MUSIC, is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times. The central norms of this tradition became codified between 1550 and 1900, which is known as the common pr…

by Darren Wicks Doctors, lawyers and tax accountants all require some sort of minimum qualifications and competency to practice. However, in the music industry things are different! Almost anyone can call themselves a voice coach or singing teacher. How do you know who to trust with your voice? In t…

In music, modulation is the process of changing from one key (tonal center) to another. If a piece of music starts out in the key of F major but then changes, either immediately or gradually, to the key of Bb major, we would say it modulates from F major to Bb major. A piece of music is considered …