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Music and Expression
According to Wendy Allanbrook, cultural historians have described the nature of musical expression in terms of two primary categories—as autonomous, formal, and numerable, but also as affective and imitative of the human and the mundane. Central to Allanbrook’s study of … Continue reading
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Tagged Classical Music, History, Music, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Modern Music and the Tradition, Part 1 of 2
Music historians Edward Applebaum and William Prizer address the subject of modern music and its evolving place in the musical canon. Joseph Addison, the eighteenth-century man of letters, wrote “Music, the greatest good that mortals know / And all of heaven we have … Continue reading
Posted in Applebaum, Edward, Episodes, Prizer, William F.
Tagged Classical Music, Kennedy Center Friedheim Award, Modern Music, Music
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