Capturing Music with Thomas Forrest Kelly

In this video, Thomas Kelly describes how musical notation developed in the West. He also performs notes from his book, Capturing Music: The Story of Notation. Read the full story: harvardmagazine.com/2014/11/mu...

[@liulep]

Thomas Kelly is a great teacher. I've got treasure knowledges from him on Edx-course MUS24.2x First Nights - Messiah.So interesting and engaging. He not only teach, he also nurture love to music.

[@danilorainone406]

capture tks' volume,'Great First Performances' esp Beethovens' Ninth, which he covers down to mastreos buckled shoes,green velvet I think it was, shortpants jacket & fluffy collar, and miss Unger tugging his sleeve as the audience roared,t,,he lads in the orchestra already finished, unger took his elbow and spun him to see the mayhem.A feature length film with the 9th as the centerpiece would be a great idea,ALL OF IT, showing the truth about Schuppanzig tossing out reams of B-n sketches he thought,'irrelevant'.
On Igor Stravinsky professor,, Chgos' WFMT broadcast some outtakes of Stravinsky getting recorded by columbia recording crew in the 60s,he had some funny exchanges with the guys at the recording console,I msgd FMT about digging these out for rebroadcast a year or so ago,,said they would consider it,oh btw I'm not the harvard guy tooting my trumpet.