Martin Carline

Martin Carline
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Martin Carline is a Grade 8-qualified music teacher (ABRSM) with over 25 years of teaching experience. Although an accomplished classical pianist, he specialises in blues and improvisation and has created a popular online blues piano course. Martin teaches a broad range of musical styles, including classical, blues, boogie woogie, ballads, movie themes, and contemporary artists like Coldplay and Adele. He also occasionally performs live at venues across the Midlands.

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Music

Articles by Martin Carline

Dufays Nuper Rosarum Flores Analysis

Essay. Published: 30 May 2017

Guillaum Dufay [Dufay] is described in Guillaume Dufay and the early Renaissance-Howard Mayer Brown as the greatest of the early 15th-century Burgundian composers and one of the great figures in the h…

Led Zeppelin: History and Analysis

Essay. Published: 22 May 2017

Led Zeppelin was one of the most popular mainstream rock bands from 1968 to 1980. Consisting of Robert Plant on vocals, Jimmy Page on guitar, John Paul Jones on bass guitar, and John Bonham on the dru…

A history of drumming

Essay. Published: 19 May 2017

Drumming is a great way to express emotions in a musical form. Over the years drumming has changed a lot, from using just a log to using a full drum set full of different types. Many forms have come i…

Recording technology in music

Essay. Published: 19 May 2017

There have been dramatic advances in music technology; this has led to the use of technology in music being far greater and wider spread. There has been a dramatic impact on musicianship. The musi…

Electronic Music | An introdcution

Essay. Published: 18 May 2017

Electronic Music: The standard way of thinking about music has it that it is an important aspect of any culture and socialization. Although there is major difference in music genres from culture to c…

The Essence of Carnatic Music

Essay. Published: 18 May 2017

This paper is on the essence of Carnatic music. The topic of Carnatic music is indeed an ocean and just a glimpse of the same is presented in a very concise format. The paper explores the difference between Hindustani style and the former’s norms….

Carmen Opera | Exotic Musical Elements

Essay. Published: 17 May 2017

Carmen, as one of the most famous operas in the world, has been performed many times in lots of different troupes. This 4-act opera represents the highest achievement of the 19th century French opera….

Musical Culture In Various Regions

Essay. Published: 16 May 2017

Through research and studying about the different musical culture in various regions, one can often link the different characteristics of music with the particular place. Music shares a close connecti…

History And Evolution Of Hip Hop

Essay. Published: 15 May 2017

During the late 1970s an underground urban movement known as hip-hop began to develop in the South Bronx area of New York City. Encompassing graffiti art, break dancing, rap music, and fashion, hip-ho…

The Development Of Punk Rock

Essay. Published: 15 May 2017

Punk rock first appeared during the 70s in the Bowery district of New York, it was basically a bunch of amateur bands who wanted to make music. Studio executives didn’t care much for rock at the…

Music and Censorship

Essay. Published: 15 May 2017

Music and Censorship Music today is an important part of our lives. It is a way to express ourselves as individuals and it is a form of art that helps us define who and what we are. We use it to expre…

Musical Form And Structure

Essay. Published: 15 May 2017

What is the difference between music and noise? In a personal point of view, one important difference is that music makes sense. It has its own structure, basic patterns and it shows how composers mad…

Why Stravinskys Rite Of Spring Is Revolutionary

Essay. Published: 12 May 2017

The Rite of Spring is famously and perhaps infamously regarded as one of the most major turning points in the history of Western music. Furthermore, the notoriously catastrophic reception at the premi…

Music Essays | Traditional Irish Ireland

Essay. Published: 11 May 2017

Traditional Irish Ireland Before discussing the contexts behind the development of traditional Irish music and the resulting label, it is important to define what is actually meant by the label “tra…

The Life Of Kurt Cobain

Essay. Published: 9 May 2017

Throughout the history of pop culture there is one unmistakable truth. Change comes gradually until someone or a group of people make their presence known. Then the change happens almost overnight. …

Western Art Music | Analysis

Essay. Published: 5 May 2017

Western Art Music Western practices define art music as a musical tradition that is basically written, not transmitted by rote or in any recordings but preserved in the form of music notation. This ar…

The Dada And Punk Movements

Essay. Published: 4 May 2017

In this essay I will be looking at two design movements from very different decades and discussing the relationship between them. The two movements which I will be analysing are the Dada and Punk move…

Baroque Period And Opera

Essay. Published: 4 May 2017

Early baroque composers favoured homophonic texture over the polyphonic texture typical of Renaissance music. They felt that words could be projected more clearly by using just one main melody with a …

Nineteenth Century Romantic Period

Essay. Published: 4 May 2017

What is music.The dictionary says music is, an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner (Dictorniary.com). Most people wo…

The Big Band Swing Era

Essay. Published: 4 May 2017

It is said by historians, that they believe the Big Band Swing era dates back as early as the 1920s in early routes of jazz. It wasnt until the 1930’s ranging into the 1950’s, when the Big…