• Mar 06, 2021

A Sled Named Pre-1918 Perhaps my best bit of imaginative music criticism-- Between Sea and Sky is like Citizen Kane. Between Sea and Sky opens with a wisp of a tune--four notes rising stepwise. 100% pre-1918. The opening …

• Mar 01, 2021

David Loeb Website a masterpiece, David Loeb's Fantasy on a Rondeau of Dufay-- [smplayer tag=Loebdufay=bar-ui bar-ui=full-width] Although David Loeb began composing at the age of six, he destroyed everything he had …

• Feb 12, 2021

Zieguezon finishes the cycle of Quebecois songs I wrote for the incomparable ----Bowers Fader Duo---- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXSO6VTYgVQ - wonky: At the end of each verse of this setting of Ziguezon there are …

• Feb 08, 2021

Making an argument here for *vers enchaîné*

• Jan 18, 2021

Robert Pollock composes the most amazing guitar music. When he writes for instruments he feels the character of the instruments and writes in the mask of the character. This point is made so clear by his banjo & piano …

• Aug 06, 2020

Connections Between Babbitt & Schenker In loving memory of Stephen Peles Anderson: Stephen, I have a really interesting idea for a music theory project. Peles: I'll be the judge of that! ---Milsaps, Mississippi, …