• Feb 08, 2021

Making an argument here for *vers enchaîné*

• Nov 29, 2018

Carter took one abrupt turn, and much later, a gentle turn. His music from the '50s did not draw a hard line around scale degrees. Scale degree associations were not avoided like the plague. He drew the line in the 60s or …

• Jun 09, 2017

The poetics of the music of Pierre Boulez, I contend, are close to the development we see from Poe through Boudelaire and Mallarme to Valery. Boulez most likely began with an interest in having his techniques have nothing to …

• Feb 05, 2016

Babbitt & Historicism ( work in progress ) In the famous & infamous “Who Cares if You Listen?” article in Stereo Review, Babbitt used the word, “evolve”. His detractors and even some of his admirers pounced …