What Really Handicapped Classical Music?
Bill Eddins wrote a provocative and over the top post claiming it’s Schoenberg’s fault that classical music has lost its audience. His follow up post, No One Expects the 12-Tone […]
Category Archives: Music Theory
Modern Cello Techniques
Modern Cello Techniques is a fantastic new website dedicated to extended cello techniques by Chicago based cellist, Russell Rolen. Of special interest to my blog readers who also are […]
Korean Chôngganbo and Far Eastern music notation systems
As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve been having some relatively in depth discussions about music systems and notation for them with Bryan Townsend. A statement in one of […]
DaHjaj QeylIS qa’jIH.
“I am the Spirit of Kahless Present.” Sometimes I have to be in the business of creating culture, not just re-creating culture (or ‘re-presenting culture’ as I sometimes refer to […]
on being a fannan asil…
I posted a bit about “authenticity” and the issues modernization and Westernization in indigenous Art Music traditions previously. Here’s a quote from Ali Jihad Racy’s article, “Musical Aesthetics in Present-Day […]
