Learn about the relationship between performance spaces and music in Byzantium.
Category: new publications
Alex Ross’s commentary on the 20C century
Alex Ross’s The Rest is Noise (2007) is well worth a read if you’re interested in music of the twentieth century. His blog is ongoing and covers a variety of current topics.
The Taruskin challenge
This is a thoughtful, and sometimes contentious, analysis of Richard Taruskin’s multi-volume Oxford History of Western Music (2010). Mark Samples and Zachary Wallmark blog their way through this monumental work.
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