Steve Giddings

I've been refining the wording and design all week. Any and all feedback welcome before this goes into the final proof stage. Thank you everyone for your feedback to this point.

I've also been developing a workshop discussing these prompts to gelp shif the nattative. #musiced #musiceducation #shiftthenarrative #musedchat

Jan 14, 2023 at 12:18pmWeb
Show threadMags at LargeJan 14, 2023
@StevesMusicRoom Love this much needed work to shift the narrative. The term "classical" is just so fuzzy. Anyway to clarify? Dates perhaps? Instruments used?
Show threadSteve GiddingsJan 14, 2023
@maggiemartin for sure, that's why I included the word in scare quotes. I could say 18th-and-19th-century Church and Court music from central Europe?! 😉😄
Show threadMags at LargeJan 14, 2023

@StevesMusicRoom Better.

There is just so much other "western music". For example, melismatic chant in the Middle Ages inspired by interactions with musicians in the "Holy Land" which has very little to do with, say, Mozart. And tunings had waaay more flex before the shift towards well-tempered . All that stuffy "education" that promoted a narrow band of western musical history is the prob. Not general "Western music" .

Show threadSteve GiddingsJan 14, 2023
@maggiemartin yes, which is why one of the prompts in this poster tries to make that point. And "Western" music is such a problematic term too.