A blog post by Gillian Turnbull was featuredCheating and StealingIn my undergrad, my two friends and I divided up our listening test list and developed a complicated set of signals to represent each piece. Tchaikovsky, I’ll scratch my ear. Chopin, I’ll rub my nose. That sort of thing. It was what is probably now considered old-school in terms of listening tests. The prof would drop the needle (literally) in the middle of the development section of a 20-minute symphonic movement by one of the late Romantic greats and you’d not only have to identify it, but what was happening at the time. ... Read More