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To many musicologists, Raitt is a crucial link in the chain of great blues artists and she's even in the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame.

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Consumers can stream music from a suite of over 150 exclusive playlists that are curated and kept up to date by an expert team of US based musicologists.

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And musicologists could tell them about structures in music.

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"Usually, it's a note here or there or a missing dynamic indication, which will be weeded out by conductors, musicians, librarians or musicologists, " says Mr. Orenstein, a Ravel scholar of 45 years and the author of "A Ravel Reader" (1990).

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At the time of Gould's American debut in January 1955, the "Goldberg Variations" were mainly known to musicologists. (Gould too was unknown to American audiences.) But the 22-year-old Canadian pianist s performance was so energetic and captivating that he became a classical music superstar.

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As the film observes with an excess of equanimity, fans and musicologists alike have claimed to find the secret of the Motown Sound in everything from the label's stars to its producers or the wood on the studio floor, yet they've overlooked, or underheard, the most obvious source of all, the studio musicians.

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The Women in Music Foundation , the members of the International Honour Committee , (comprising national associations, composers, musicologists and distinguished women), together with a network of musicians in 116 countries, gives visibility, safeguards and sustains research regarding historic artistic production, encourages contemporary creativity and the musical and cultural diversity of women composers.

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