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We Are The Modern Day Revolutionists....We Dont Use Violence! Its Our Time...Lets Do This...Find Out How!

Bitcoin, blockchain, cryptocurrency, decentralization is more than a technology, it is a global movement! It is a structural change to not only commerce but how...

Parasites Lost Theme

The main thematic material of a "tone poem" of sorts, composed in 2007, copyrighted and ASCAP registered. The composer more or less followed traditional counter...

Resvelons-nous, resvelons, amoureux. Alons en bien tos au may !

A great song - rather, a great "rondeau" - for the month of May, by Renaissance composer Guillaume DuFay (ca. 1400-1474), which Mark Priest has arranged and pro...

Printed New Shirts and Invaded Makerere University as Promo Uganda Team.

>Do not ask what the people or the government can do for you,but ask what you can do for the people or government- John F.Kennedy I guess you must have read tho...

Adieu, ces bons vins de Lannoys, by Guillaume Dufay (ca. 1400-1474)

As you may have guessed, I'm putting together a set of backing tracks that will be put to use when I wish to perform Renaissance style music on recorders and th...

Je me recommande, by Gilles Binchois

Here is another secular song by Renaissance composer Gilles Binchois (1400-1460), a rondeau for three voices, which I've transcribed for a trio of Recorders: So...

Adieu, m'amour, by Gilles Binchois (1400-1460), transcribed and arranged for recorders trio.

Another secular song by Renaissance composer Gilles Binchois (1400-1460), which I've transcribed for a trio of Recorders: Soprano, Alto, and Tenor, plus optiona...

Adieu, adieu, by Gilles Binchois (1400-1460), transcribed/arranged by Mark Priest

Secular song by Renaissance composer Gilles Binchois (1400-1460), which I've transcribed for a trio of Recorders: Soprano, Alto, and Tenor, plus optional sopran...

Why You Have Been Manipulated!!

Do you think you’ve ever been manipulated? Most people would say no. The average person is going to tell you they have great common sense and they would know if...

Like Learning to Talk!

“It’s so frustrating! I’m a supportive parent, but how can I get my child to practice?” Parents who have had children enrolled in private piano study (or that o...

What is Early Music?

This article is meant as a short overview of what is meant and intended by the specialisation of Early Music. We do intend to produce further articles that will...

Be Obsessed or Be Average! Am I Obsessed with DTube? Probably.

Some people might be wondering, "I see this D-guy's face all the time on DTube - He must be obsessed!" In this video, I talk about a concept I learned from @gra...

Music Listening List for Beginning Music Students (and Their Parents!)

Because learning to play a musical instrument well is like mastering a foreign language - it is all about establishing a music-conducive environment in the home...

PIano/Keyboard Harmony, Part 7: Through the Flat Keys; Transposing Down by 5ths

Another slightly updated upload of one of my YouTube tutorials from last summer, which I wish to make available to friends and followers (and music theory stude...

Introduction to Steemit

Piano Keyboard Having been raised by musical parents who required my siblings and me to attend weekly private lessons on piano and one orchestral instrument – i...

Secondary 7th Chords in Major, Part 1 (Harmony III.10)

We have studied several concepts, or guiding principles – “Rules” – that pertain to Dominant 7th chords. These will prove useful as we now add several Secondary...

Introducing myself as a full time steemian & steemit promoter

All my greetings to all the steemians. To day I have made an other choice in my life. The choice is to be a full time steemian. Do you know what I mean? I doubt...

What Is a Cadence? (Harmony I.09)

[slides and explanatory info below are taken from one of my undergraduate music theory lectures (first semester)] Rivers, Creeks, Brooks, Cascades, Rapids, Wate...

Meaning of Bass Figures - Harmony I.08 (Updated Slides and Transcript)

We recently introduced [in "Go Figure!, Part 1"] numbering of the starting bass note of a chord progression, using both Roman numerals and Arabic figures. To il...

Music Gigs: Wages and Offers

Prologue and Disclaimer: Some of the terms I use in the previously-published article below (based on a 2015, Facebook "Note") may seem a bit harsh, but I am usi...