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The Anxiety of Influence
Assessing the earliest stirring of the English style can be a perilous endeavor. It is true that a set of distinct features – parallel thirds, voice-exchange, a repeated pattern in the low voice… more →
The Taruskin Challenge
Medieval & Renaissance Music: recordings as a starting point
rodbyatt wrote 2 days ago: My starting point is some of my recordings, my Top 20. What becomes obvious is that I haven’t … more →
Wave Gotik Treffen: Let's go!
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Sarah wrote 3 weeks ago: I’ve wanted to go to Europe for a very long time. I find myself becoming extremely jealous whe … more →
What was really groundbreaking about "Rapper's Delight"?
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Meredith Aska McBride wrote 1 month ago: Matthew Guerrieri of the Boston Globe argues that the truly original thing about the 1979 hit rap si … more →
The Anxiety of Influence
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Zach Wallmark wrote 1 month ago: Assessing the earliest stirring of the English style can be a perilous endeavor. It is true that a s … more →
That English Sound
Zach Wallmark wrote 1 month ago: One of England’s greatest contributions to the burgeoning transnational musical language at th … more →
"Sumer is icumen in"
Zach Wallmark wrote 1 month ago: This remarkable 4-part round is one of the best known English compositions in the world. “Summ … more →
Week 8 in Review
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Zach Wallmark wrote 1 month ago: The Week in Blogging: Week 8 saw both a musical example and an analysis of that smokiest of styles, … more →
The Murky Meaning of "Renaissance"
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Zach Wallmark wrote 1 month ago: With ambivalent surprise, it seems we’ve stumbled into the Renaissance. All students of music … more →
Ars Subtilior and the Problem of "Chunking"
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Zach Wallmark wrote 1 month ago: That kind of showy overcomplexity is just the sort of excess – an excess of fantasy, perhaps, … more →
Riddle Me This, or, Solage and His Smoke
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Mark Samples wrote 1 month ago: Before we leave last week’s reading too far behind, we have to listen to this: This tricky pie … more →
Week 7 in Review
Mark Samples wrote 1 month ago: We both began and ended last week’s reading in Ch. 9, “Machaut and His Progeny.” T … more →
Musical Prophecies
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Zach Wallmark wrote 1 month ago: “The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of … more →
Invisible Barriers
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Mark Samples wrote 1 month ago: One does not have to crack open Taruskin’s OHWM to infer that he does not ascribe to the tradi … more →
A Machaut Playlist
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Mark Samples wrote 1 month ago: Already in Chapter 9 we have gone through a good deal of music by Guillaume de Machaut. Since there … more →
Week 6 in Review
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Zach Wallmark wrote 1 month ago: The Week in Blogging: Week 7 kicks off with some good news. It’s official – Mark passed … more →
Du Fay and Machaut
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Zach Wallmark wrote 1 month ago: Guillaume Du Fay, Nuper rosarum flores This motet, composed for the dedication of a cathedral in Flo … more →
Why Petty Politics Can be a Good Thing
Zach Wallmark wrote 1 month ago: What drives musical innovation and complexity? We’ve discussed a couple factors so far, includ … more →
Humor in the 14th Century, or "Europe's Funniest Home Versus"
Zach Wallmark wrote 2 months ago: It’s all too easy to attribute modern comedic sensibilities to modern people only. But if the … more →
How is a motet like an onion?
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Mark Samples wrote 2 months ago: Layers. … more →
