Welcome back to Parsons Playlists! Today we’re featuring a collection called “Duck, Fish & Spongebob” curated by Music Library student assistant Naron (class of 2023).
Naron says that the theme of this playlist is “Instrumental Music with clean rhythm(some singing, but singing is not the major part)” and that it is “a collection of instrumental music that speaks about different little drops of emotions in life.”
Welcome back to Parsons Playlists! Today we’re featuring a playlist to get you into the Halloween spirit curated by Music Library student assistant Nicole (class of 2024).
Spooky Season is here!
Are you excited for Halloween!? Enjoy this playlist as you think about the costume you’ll wear for the 31st!
Welcome back to Parsons Playlists! Today we’re featuring a collection of cello solo essentials curated by Music Library student manager Brianna (class of 2023).
This playlist includes what I find to be the most essential cello solo music to know by heart. These are some of my favorite pieces written for the cello!
Welcome back to Parsons Playlists! Today we’re featuring a collection called “Orange” curated by Music Library student manager Allison (class of 2022).
I label my playlists by color and this one is orange. Enjoy! 🙂
This playlist began as a discussion with a friend online a couple months ago. I had shared a song that I’d had stuck in my head and my friend said that it was their least favorite song by the group because (and I quote) “SHA LA LA is a terrible lyric 🙂”. The discussion that followed was all in good fun, but led me to want to research songs that have nonsense syllables in them just to prove that “sha la la” is NOT (necessarily) a terrible lyric.
Vocals like “sha la la” in songs are called non-lexical vocables. Basically, they are nonsense syllables which may or may not be mixed together with meaningful text and they appear in all manner of different musics. This, of course, led to me being extra geeky and having a lot of fun creating a playlist highlighting a variety of different songs that use nonsense syllables in this way. In point of fact, it goes all the way back to at least the middle ages with songs using things like “fa la la” in them – but I decided to stick to more modern examples for playlist purposes. Which means this playlist starts with some scat singing (from circa the 1920s-1940s) and goes on from there.
Your mileage may vary in terms of your tolerance of the non-lexical vocable, but I maintain that sometimes one doesn’t need an actual word to create musical meaning and that non-lexical vocables can be super fun!
Welcome back to Parsons Playlists! Today we’re featuring a collection of popular music from the first decade of the 21st century, curated by Music Library student manager Abby (class of 2021).
Per Abby, here’s some “Popular music from 2000-2009 for all your guilty pleasure jam session needs”:
Welcome back to Parsons Playlists! Today we’re featuring a collection of feel good indie/alternative music curated by Music Library student manager Abby (class of 2021).
So here are “some showtunes to belt in the shower, or to serenade your roommates with until they either join in or kick you out” per Abby:
Welcome back to Parsons Playlists! Today we’re featuring a collection of RenaissancePolyphony curated by Music Library student assistant Ryan (class of 2022).
So here is “Renaissance Polyphony to Get Your Brain Going”:
The Ghent Altarpiece: Singing Angels (detail) by Jan van Eyck (1432)
Welcome back to Parsons Playlists! Today we’re featuring a collection of feel good indie/alternative music curated by Music Library student manager Abby (class of 2021).
So here are “some relaxing jazz instrumentals for your late night study sessions” curated by Abby for you:
