music theory – LIVING ARTISAN

The ‘Song’ of a Distant Black Hole

November 12, 2019 by Living Artisan

“Dr. Andrew Fabian and his colleagues at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge, England made their discovery using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, an orbiting X-ray telescope that sees the Universe in X-ray light just as the Hubble Space Telescope sees it in visible light. Using the piano keyboard’s middle C note as a reference point … Read more

Ostinatos, Early Western Repeated Rythmic Patterns

October 31, 2019 by Living Artisan

“Ostinato, (Italian: “obstinate”, )plural Ostinatos, or Ostinati, in music, short melodic phrase repeated throughout a composition, sometimes slightly varied or transposed to a different pitch. A rhythmic ostinato is a short, constantly repeated rhythmic pattern. Ostinatos appear in Western composition from the 13th century onward, as in the motet Emendemus in melius (Let Us Change … Read more