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A reference for discussing the sad, fated, and “beautiful but painful” side of jazz, including musicians such as Billie Holiday and Chet Baker.
5 6d ago A 93 tokens
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A literary method for portraying a musician's character and humanity through descriptions of their instrumental performance.
5 6d ago A 74 tokens
Skill Claude CodeCodex
A six-period map of Western classical music, from the Middle Ages and Renaissance through the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and modern eras. It includes listening clues, composers, major changes, and starting pieces.
5 6d ago A 86 tokens
Skill Claude CodeCodex
A listening guide for a first encounter with a piano or violin concerto, where a soloist and orchestra respond to each other.
5 6d ago A 47 tokens
Skill Claude CodeCodex
A guide to understanding why a composer focused on a particular kind of work during certain periods. It also keeps room for unusual works that break the pattern.
5 6d ago A 51 tokens
Skill Claude CodeCodex
A listening map for following the main sections of the first movement of a sonata, a structured instrumental work.
5 6d ago A 51 tokens
Skill Claude CodeCodex
A classical-music guessing game based on a composer's recurring musical traits, or “fingerprint.”
5 6d ago A 46 tokens
Skill Claude CodeCodex
A listening guide for hearing how the parts of a complete symphony fit together. A symphony is a large multi-part work for orchestra.
5 6d ago A 45 tokens
Skill Claude CodeCodex
A guide to classical ideas about beauty from Umberto Eco’s book The History of Beauty. It covers artistic models such as Venus, Adonis, the Virgin Mary, mathematical harmony, medieval light and colour, and Apollonian versus Dionysian styles.
5 6d ago A 102 tokens
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A map of how ideas about beauty changed in modern art, from monsters and unease to the sublime, Romantic horror, fear, pain, and excess. It explains where dark or unsettling beauty comes from.
5 6d ago A 71 tokens
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A historical map of ugliness as an independent kind of artistic appeal, from devils and monsters to the grotesque, the sickly, avant-garde ugliness, camp, and contemporary forms.
5 6d ago A 95 tokens
Skill Claude CodeCodex
A writing guide for stating the limits of an argument in cultural-history or art-history research. It treats self-criticism as a way to make claims more honest, not as a reason to dismiss every conclusion.
5 6d ago A 48 tokens
Skill Claude CodeCodex
A guide to interpreting how political cartoons make an enemy look ugly, threatening, or ridiculous.
5 6d ago A 48 tokens
Skill Claude CodeCodex
A guide to reading monsters and demons as visual symbols in films and video games. It also warns against treating historical images of fear as direct labels for specific groups today.
5 6d ago A 57 tokens
Skill Claude CodeCodex
A guide to analysing why sentimental film and television songs can feel uncomfortable or overly affected.
5 6d ago A 47 tokens
Skill Claude CodeCodex
A guide to analysing horror films and works built around dark or unsettling beauty.
5 6d ago A 58 tokens
Skill Claude CodeCodex
An introduction to AABA form, a common structure in many standard jazz and popular songs. The four letters describe repeated sections, with the final section returning to the opening idea.
5 6d ago A 42 tokens
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A guide to hearing the structure of traditional jazz improvisation, especially in standard songs.
5 6d ago A 47 tokens
Skill Claude CodeCodex
A listening guide to the difference between a big band and a small jazz group, focusing on how musicians share control and freedom.
5 6d ago A 44 tokens
Skill Claude CodeCodex
A visual listening map for beginner jazz. Jazz is improvised music built around performances, melodies, rhythms, and changing interactions between musicians.
5 6d ago A 55 tokens
Skill Claude CodeCodex
A guide to the social history of New Orleans jazz, including its African roots, blues inflections, ragtime rhythms, and role in racial cultural exchange.
5 6d ago A 54 tokens
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A reference guide to 150 living contemporary jazz musicians, organized by instrument and style.
5 6d ago A 51 tokens
Skill Claude CodeCodex
A map of jazz history from New Orleans and Chicago through swing, bebop, cool jazz, free jazz, and fusion, with key figures and listening clues.
5 6d ago A 61 tokens
Skill Claude CodeCodex
A listening guide to the structure of jazz improvisation, from the main theme through variation and soloing to the return of the theme.
5 6d ago A 53 tokens