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> He was a nepo baby with a big purse. Interesting interpretation of "he was orphaned at 10 and left with nothing and had to go and live with his brother".

A lot of modern packages which began outside emacs have now been gradually been merged into the main emacs tree and come pre-installed (use-package for clean per package configurat…

That Byrd is very nice! The individual voices came across very well on my IEMs. I'm used to reverb as well, and the complete lack of reverb in these recordings still sound a little…

A recent recording of Obrecht masses had close mic, recorded in a studio usually used for pop music with very little echo, with one voice per part [1]. The effect really is quite s…

The main reason for the commotion during the Paris premiere seems to be the publicity which whipped up the audience on both sides and made a clash inevitable. The Russian ballet ha…

> Universalism: that is the intellectual realm abutting utopianism and ethnocentrism. "There are universal values, and they happen to be mine," was Stanley Hoffman’s delightful def…

Looks like the crew were manning the yards[1] as they went out to sea. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yard_(sailing)#Manning_the_yar...

Great job! For converting music to readable images, the latex of music typesetting is lilypond, which has the ability to create legible music at any size by scaling the notational …

Isn't Mytilene a city while the island itself is called Lesvos?

I recall that Charles Rosen wrote somewhere that one of the reasons the string quartet took off in the classical period was that it allowed the playing of all the notes in a domina…

> Unless you’re doing some fairly exotic things where you’re finding yourself saying things like >> Oh yeah the OCR on Japanese driving licenses pops out things like “平成 8”, that’s…

Yes, although they are either juvenilia or relatively small pieces that would not greatly change our understanding of the composer in question. On the other hand there is another p…

> Shakespeare plays were made for broad appeal (he was a professional playwright, after all). Mozart's music was made for the broad appeal. This statement is misleading because the…

> In the end, maybe the crucial difference between those who read once and those who reread is an attitude toward time, or more precisely, death. The most obvious argument against …

It's not at all surprising since Benjamin's tract was notoriously impenetrable, even to his original examiners, which resulted in his habilitation being rejected. Not to mention th…

Very true. Here's Dr Johnson: > What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; s…

The late and great Richard Taruskin used this incident to frame a book review in the New Republic[1]. Many people have commented on the location of Bell's stunt, which was chosen t…

A fine article on the role of timbre which is indeed discussed little compared to the focus on harmony and form for classical music. Charles Rosen gave one possible reason for this…

It should be mentioned that "old" violins that are still used today have all been substantially rebuilt to accommodate later repertories. There is a lot of difference between an ea…

The survival rate for certain 15th/16th codices in Western Europe aren't great either. From England there are only three choirbooks (Eton, Lambeth, Caius) surviving from the first …

> “Almost all music is written with a strong melody line,” she said. “We call that the lead line. Then, the three parts that harmonize with that, usually they are written just to h…

This is partly true. Mendelssohn brought back the great religious works of Bach into the public consciousness (79 years after Bach's death, not 50 years). However, Bach was by no m…