In addition to creating carefully defined and distinct forms and styles of music, the Ancient Greeks developed a tremendously intricate and complex music theory system. The technical aspects of Ancient Greek music theory have been discussed in great detail in works both from antiquity and modern times, but their general effect on all but the […]
Schubert’s Cello Quintet in Recording Comparative Tempo Relationships in the Trio of the Scherzo
Summer
Schubert’s String Quintet in C major, Op. 163, D. 956, was composed in his last year and completed only a few weeks before his death on the afternoon of November 19, 1828. It was not until twenty-two years later, on November 17, 1850, that the work received its premiere performance. Another three years were to […]
Reclaiming Genius A Review of David Montgomery's Franz Schubert's Music in Performance
Winter
How are cherished art works of the past best served and most deeply savored? A visitor to the Basilica of San Francesco in Arezzo will find the remains and restoration of only what Piero della Francesco himself painted in the great 15th century frescoes. The restorer has removed all of the renderings of the many […]
Elliot Carter’s Harmony Book and the Idea of Order
Fall
When I began to deal with the Piano Concerto and the Concerto for Orchestra, I kept finding that I was writing the same chord plans over and over again in order to find the relationship between them. And so I decided to write out something that was more or less permanent and organized so I […]