Archive of ‘Musicality’ category

Musicality Book Club, Week 2: Music in the Body

We’re now on Chapter 1 of Mathieu’s Bridge of Waves: What Music Is and How Listening to It Changes the World, which is tantalizingly titled Music as Body. This chapter is a nice segue from the introduction last week when Mathieu and I wrote about how the upper and lower body connote spirituality and groundedness […] Read more…

Cadencia: Surfing on the Waves of the Music

Reading Simba Tango’s blog post on cadencia prompted me to start collecting quotes from various sources that describe this elusive yet essential phenomenon. Although cadencia is a Spanish word drawn from Argentine tango culture, I believe it can be applied to all dances. I first heard the term cadencia in my 2008 interview with Alex Krebs. Here is how he described it: Part […] Read more…

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