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by Aidevah 4y ago
The Second Viennese School feels like the termination of the long tradition probably because they were the last generation who felt an direct connection to their immediate predecessors. Schoenberg, despite being mostly an auotdidact, though
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https://archive.ph/aWysg
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Alban Berg’s Dissonances(nybooks.com)
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For comparison, the 500th anniversary of Jean d'Okeghem's death was commemorated in 1997, and there is small but significant scholarly and performance community active today which are devoted to his works. Although there is no unb
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Charles Rosen relayed this wonderful anecdote about the great musicologist Oliver Strunk (son of the William Strunk of Strunk & White fame); > His interests ranged over almost the whole of music, although his appreciation of the mode
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Taruskin is writing in the context of the western literate (i.e. classical) tradition of music, and he was very sceptical about the mainstream, hyper-intellectual way of composing as represented by who adhere to serialism and other structur
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From the perspective of a totally corrupt theorist, the response may not entirely be a positive thing. Richard Taruskin wrote about it in the opening essay of The Dangers of Music and other Anti-Utopian Essays[1]. > So much one may elici
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Stile Antics at the Library: Not Your “Liber Usualis” (2013)(blogs.loc.gov)
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Many people seem to not realise that there is already an alternative to staff notation; it is called the piano roll. It has all the advantages that alternative notations propose (proportional intervals and note lengths), is already in wides
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One of Bach's most famous church cantatas, BWV 140[1], was written for the 27th (or no. 3^3, the importance of this will be apparent in a moment) Sunday after Trinity, the last possible Sunday before Advent. The cantata is a chorale ca
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> During his lifetime, and even—astonishingly—in the half century since his death, the music of Arnold Schoenberg has been influential and controversial out of all proportion to the frequency with which it has ever been performed or othe
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Classical Music Doesn’t Have to Be Ugly to Be Good(nytimes.com)
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Slightly related is the question "How many different notes do you need in the bass to harmonise any melody?", and the answer was provided by Obrecht in the final section of his Missa Malheur me bat[1] dating from around 1497. The
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Very interesting points! I admit that my interpretation is very much coloured by the excellent introduction to the Oxford World Classics edition of the Histories written by P.J. Rhodes. I believe Thucydides was far too cynical to buy into t
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>For example, most people these days who read Thucydides' Melian Dialogue would assume the correct conclusion is to side with Melos, and it's often a shock that Thucydides himself sided with the Athenians. Can you please elabor
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by Aidevah 5y ago
One of my favourite short stories by Borges is "The Theologians"[1], which deals with a contest between two theologians in suppressing heresy. It's absolutely wonderful how Borges managed to turn dry scholastic debate into a
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Interesting to note that the review for the same book in the conservative Claremont Review of Books (for which Guelzo is a contributor) also largely concurs with the author's critical assessment[1]. Christopher Caldwell's treatmen
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Book Review: Robert E. Lee: A Life by Allen Guelzo(lrb.co.uk)
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>Barry Strauss: So often in history, people are hidden in plain sight. When I wrote a book some years ago on the Battle of Salamis, I discovered that the Persians had a female admiral named Artemisia. I was taken aback. I thought, "
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Agreed, I've tested many self-hosted music streaming servers and decided to settle with navidrome in the end but not without major reservations. I personally don't mind sorting music via album/song, but the lack of composer f
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Ironically one of the direct consequences of the West's intervention in Iraq and Syria was the decimation of the Christian communities in those countries from the ensuing instability. These are some of the oldest Christian communities
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While the old warhorses of the repertoire may need no preparations at all, new and challenging works need to be very well rehearsed for effective performances. From Charles Rosen's Freedom and the Arts: > When a piece of harrison Bi
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While like you, I am not convinced that writers tend to end their careers earlier than painters (the three greatest living American novelists, DeLillo, Pynchon and McCarthy, all well in their 80s, have all published relatively recently), I
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I've been using Lilypond for a number of years now and it's a truly remarkable piece of software. The quality of the engraving is extremely high, the amount of customization you can carry out is unrivalled, and it is also incredib
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NATO is on the side of democracy and human rights. That's why it includes countries such as Turkey which has never waged an aggressive war on the pretext of protecting its own people, and then continuing the military occupation until t
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Truly astonishing quote: > "Each book and exhibition devoted to [Vermeer's] works proves beauty’s corrupting power over scholarly minds." The author's detachment and lack of value judgement towards the object of stud
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A Monk’s-Eye View(lrb.co.uk)
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Absolutely, Homage to Catalonia is also one of my favourite works by Orwell.
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Insightful and relevant as ever, Orwell is always worth reading (and rereading). Sometimes I feel that his fictional works have unjustly overshadowed his enormous production of essays, so it's good to see these pop up on the front page
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This seems to have answered a longstanding question I had about French surnames. I had come across a presentation given by a person bearing the name "La Rochefoucauld" and I always wondered if she was descended from the eponymous

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