Michele Galvagno

NEW EDITION: Arrangement of David Popper’s “Wie einst in schöner’n Tagen”, for two cellos

As a cello teacher, it is paramount that I always have an accompaniment ready to play with my students at any moment. This may prove easy if the repertoire is made of cello duets or baroque/classical sonatas for cello and basso, but it may become a problem when the piece is original for cello andContinue reading “NEW EDITION: Arrangement of David Popper’s “Wie einst in schöner’n Tagen”, for two cellos”

NEW EDITION: “Pioggia d’Aprile” for Cello and Piano by Carlo Alfredo Piatti

As soon as I realised that 2022 would have been the 200th anniversary of the birth of Italian cellist and composer Carlo Alfredo Piatti (1822–1901), I knew that something needed to be done. I quickly browsed my publishing plans for the nearest future and delayed everything else to make room for this composition. While PiattiContinue reading “NEW EDITION: “Pioggia d’Aprile” for Cello and Piano by Carlo Alfredo Piatti”

Learning the C Programming Language as a Classical Musician [15]

Episode 15 — Types (Part 7: Practical Examples) Welcome back! Our journey into C types enters its final stage: after basic types and enumerated types, it is now the turn of derived types. This category contains arrays, structures, unions, functions, pointers, and atomic types. We have just scratched the surface of most of them inContinue reading “Learning the C Programming Language as a Classical Musician [15]”

Learning the C Programming Language as a Classical Musician [14]

Episode 14 — Types (Part 6: Practical Examples) Welcome back! In the last episode, we studied floating-point numbers and how they can be used in C, with particular interest into how the compiler stores their precision. Much has evolved since the introduction of the C Programming Language in the 1970s in the way computers work,Continue reading “Learning the C Programming Language as a Classical Musician [14]”

Learning the C Programming Language as a Classical Musician [13]

Episode 13 — Types (Part 5: Practical Examples) Welcome back! Today, we continue our journey through practical examples of types in the C programming language. We dedicated the whole of the last episode to integers, saw how the C compiler handles them, and met the modulo % operator, used to return the remainder of aContinue reading “Learning the C Programming Language as a Classical Musician [13]”