May 24, 2017
I was reading recently an article G.K. Chesterton: In Defense of Amateurs from Charles Chu. It is interesting reading especially when considering that Musicably is about amateur musicking. At the same time it is quite telling, that although the article analyzes what an amateur is, in […]
May 17, 2017
Imagine the following situation. It is Saturday evening. You are well rested and with high expectations preparing for a popular program on the television. The best food and drinks will be served and eaten in your favorite show. The prettiest and the most popular eaters will […]
May 9, 2017
A YouTube algorithm delivered an interesting video to my computer screen. Colored only in black&white it looks depressing, even morbid. Actually it is not a video, because all what you can see for six minutes are three words – Why Music Matters. What you can hear […]
May 2, 2017
Recently I finished reading the book Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade from renowned psychologist Robert Cialdini. His specialty is persuasion and marketing. In the book he writes also about the research program designed to answer the question “What is language principally for?” Cialdini […]
April 25, 2017
Instrumental by James Rhodes Shocking and terrifying book about music. And life. I have read many books about music. I am a musicologist after all, so reading about music has been a requirement and also my passion. But never before happened, that I just couldn’t continue […]
April 18, 2017
Fire is a good servant but a bad master. Once our ancestors mastered the fire, many thousands years ago, humanity started climbing to dominate this world. Fire helped humans to protect, to heat and feed themselves, and to see and make it through the dark. What […]
April 11, 2017
Are you overwhelmed and confused from the breadth, depth and size of the current music offering? If you don’t want to get drowned in the vast ocean of music, you’d better learn how to ‘swim’ – start playing and making music yourself. Aside from the handful […]
April 4, 2017
Welcome. The new blog Musicably.com launched on April 4, 2017. It has taken much more time to find out the name for my new blog, than I expected. It was worth the time. The name MUSICABLY contains, at least for me, most of what I wanted […]
March 29, 2017
I have been studying, listening and playing music most of my life. Throughout that time I have read a tonne of definitions and quotes trying to summarize what music really is. The one I identify the most with I read in the book The Third Ear […]