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I Changed My Mind About Minimalists
And I mean just that—not that I was a hater and now I’m a fan, not that I was a junkie and now I’m a critic. I’ve just simply done to minimalists what one ought to do in music histor… more →
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I Changed My Mind About Minimalists
wrote 2 months ago: And I mean just that—not that I was a hater and now I’m a fan, not that I was a junkie and now … more →
Trickle-down Musical Economics
wrote 8 months ago: In a music history class today, the professor was talking about subtle effects that render medieval … more →
Bon Jovi Knew It
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wrote 9 months ago: “A widely held opinion in the aesthetic community insists an artist is more credible if he doe … more →
Apple Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree
wrote 9 months ago: “Elvis Costello has questioned whether or not ’80s glam metal should even be considered … more →
Kraut und Ruben in Biber's Battalia
wrote 10 months ago: Update: well, well. The melody does not become swiftly unrecognizable, but is actually pretty clear … more →
Timeless
wrote 11 months ago: High/classical culture is also self-consciously multigenerational. While a composer wishes to find s … more →
Part 2: Brushing Your Cultural Teeth
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wrote 11 months ago: This is about bad breath. C. S. Lewis talks about the value of reading old books. He says in the int … more →
Music in the Bible
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wrote 12 months ago: This is a section I’m probably going to cut, because it’s a little theological for that … more →
Re-examining "High" music
wrote 1 year ago: The introduction to Claude Goudimel’s harmonizations of the Psalter makes it clear that the ha … more →
Part 1: iPods Are Weird
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wrote 1 year ago: It is a warm, late-winter morning. Or a cold, early-spring morning. But I’m an optimist and I … more →
Luther Plundering Egyptians
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wrote 1 year ago: From Music in the Western World: A History in Documents: “One of the ways in which the Lutheran chur … more →
It's All About Harmony
wrote 1 year ago: So, of course, I think most music since the 18th century has had this fascination with the power of … more →
Wisdom from Schumann
wrote 1 year ago: “In judging compositions, decide as to whether they belong in the realm of art, or merely in t … more →
Latin for Whatever
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wrote 1 year ago: In his Essays in Musical Analysis: Chamber Music, Donald Tovey discusses the makeup of the final var … more →
Oops—It Was a Pop Song
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wrote 1 year ago: In Why Johnny Can’t Sing Hymns: How Pop Culture Rewrote the Hymnal, T. David Gordon tries to e … more →
