Feb 14, 20221 minNotesYou ass, why do you add ornamentation?An entertaining story about Josquin Despres, the famous Franco-Flemish composer of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, who by his...
Feb 13, 20222 minNotesEarly music as a monadIn Time Regained I came across a quotation from Walter Benjamin's On the Concept of History, a critique of, among other things, objective...
Feb 11, 20222 minNotesUnpredictable universeOrder and chaos, determinism and indeterminism, tectonic and atectonic as formative dichotomies in music history. For generative or...