The Ethan Hein Blog

A tribute to Dolly Parton by Dr.

It’s a companion piece to this post about AI in education.

I put up my course web site for History of 20th Century American Popular Music, which includes an assignment due the first day of class: read about Stephen Foster and “Old Folks at Home”, listen to recordings of the song by Al Jolson and Ray Charles, and…

See also a discussion of our kickoff song.

Content warning: this post includes offensive imagery.

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens by Dr.

I did two more podcast episodes about odd meter, about septuple and nonuple respectively, enjoy.

Even before I posted this one, I started getting suggestions for songs in 5/4, and a few in 10/4.

I am teaching two new NYU classes this fall.

The album Coltrane’s Sound begins explosively.