• Mar 15, 2022

It's come to this -- **a theme is misplaced concreteness** This is to say that a theme is a particularly memorable artifact of certain prolongations. This statement involves agreement (or complicity) with some Schenkerian …

• Dec 09, 2021

The improvisation is the meaning

• Sep 19, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8bSxlH5xWo I did The Farmer in Vilnius last week. The concert was recorded, and I may have had a better flow than I had in Brno (in 2011 or so). I think stuff and then I remember my …

• Apr 27, 2021

An equivocal moment in Meltzer's Doria Pamphili

• Apr 17, 2021

Opening of Sarabande-- Fwiw--this is a complete augmented scale-- The next note is D, which breaks the scale. I suspect agumented scale awareness. [I'm using the guitar versions in A minor. Bach's version is in G …

• Mar 09, 2021

Gaunkyo [smplayer tag=Loebgaunkyo=bar-ui bar-ui=full-width] for sho and viol quartet In Gaunkyo David Loeb combines the Japanese shō with archaic Western string instruments--viols. Likewise, modal melodies and harmonies …