MTMS Blog
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Summer Music Lessons
Are you looking for an enriching activity for your kids this summer? Try music lessons. Summer is a great time for learning and practicing a new instrument or tackling a new technique or style on a current instrument. Invest in your child’s future as well as the present – music education provides many benefits that…
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Flute: The First Instrument
There is some debate about the beginning of music. The oldest instrument is recognized to be a flute, and while we may never know how old the very oldest of the flutes may be, carbon dating has taken a couple examples with at least 35,000 years ago from ivory, and about 60,000 years ago for…
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April Theme
The theme for April is ballads. A ballad is a form of verse, often but not always set to music. This art form is usually a narrative, telling a story. Ballads may have begun in France, from the chanson balladée or ballade. They were also very common in Britain and Ireland, and spread through Europe, the…
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Musical Birthdays in Late March
16 March 1663 Nicolas Siret, French baroque composer and organist16 March 1745 Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow, German composer1823 William Henry Monk, English composer and organist (Eventide)16 March 1885 Giacomo Benvenuti, Italian composer16 March 1919 Ernő Király, Yugoslavian composer and ethnomusicologist16 March 1936 Fred Neil [Morlock], American songwriter, folk singer, guitarist (Everybody’s Talkin’; Candy Man), and conservationist (Dolphin Project)16 March…
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Vivaldi and Happy Spring!
The first day of spring is here. It may not feel like it quite yet, but warmer days are coming. Antonio Vivaldi’s best known works are the Four Seasons, a group of four violin concertos that each gives expression to one season of the year. Spring is linked below. These seasonal concertos represent flowing creeks,…