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1683 – Christoph Schultze (Polish-born German church composer, cantor & music director)
1712 – Sebastian Anton Scherer (German composer & organist)
1813 – Daniel Gottlob Türk (German composer, organist & music theorist)
1849 – Jacques-Féréol Mazas (French composer, conductor, violinist & teacher)
1860 – Friedrich Silcher (German song composer & folksong collector)
1873 – Carl Wilhelm (German choirmaster & composer)
1906 – Eugen Gura (Czech-born German baritone & painter)
1908 – Tony Pastor (American vaudeville impresario)
1950 – Giuseppe De Luca (Italian operatic baritone)
1958 – Ralph Vaughan Williams (English composer, music folklorist, music editor & conductor)
1960 – Mark Hambourg (Russian-born British pianist & writer)
1971 – Francesco Santoliquido (Italian composer)
1976 – Lotte Lehmann (German soprano & writer)
1977 – Heinz Röttger (German composer & conductor)
1978 – Charles Haubiel (American composer & pianist)
1981 – Lee Hays (American folksinger & songwriter, The Weavers)
1988 – Carlos Paião (Portuguese physician & pop singer & songwriter)
1993 – Rockin' Dopsie, Sr. (American Zydeco singer, accordionist & songwriter)
1995 – Ronnie White (American soul singer & songwriter, The Miracles, discovered Stevie Wonder)
2004 – Laura Branigan (American pop singer-songwriter & actress)
2005 – Piggy [Denis D'Amour] (Canadian metal guitarist & violinist, Voivod)
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RIP Piggy. Voivod is the most underrated band in metal. And they base most of their songs on my favorite scale, the whole tone; at least that's what my ears are telling me.
ReplyDeleteThey also used the diminished scale, but both scales use the tritone.
ReplyDeleteYeah, they use those symmetrical pitch structures a lot (what Messiaen would call "modes of limited transposition"). Also, a lot of different parts to their songs! They're fun to listen to, very unpredictable. They're often put into the "progressive metal" category, but they're very different from bands like Queensrÿche & Dream Theater, so some say they're more "avant-garde metal." Then they get lumped in with Napalm Death, Celtic Frost, The Mars Volta, Neurosis. But also metal-ish post-rock groups like Pelican & Isis. Seems to be a catch-all subgenre for any metal or sort-of metal that's weird & hard to classify.
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