• Apr 27, 2021

An equivocal moment in Meltzer's Doria Pamphili

• Apr 17, 2021

Opening of Sarabande-- Fwiw--this is a complete augmented scale-- The next note is D, which breaks the scale. I suspect agumented scale awareness. [I'm using the guitar versions in A minor. Bach's version is in G …

• Mar 09, 2021

Gaunkyo [smplayer tag=Loebgaunkyo=bar-ui bar-ui=full-width] for sho and viol quartet In Gaunkyo David Loeb combines the Japanese shō with archaic Western string instruments--viols. Likewise, modal melodies and harmonies …

• Mar 06, 2021

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms. — John Millington Synge

• Mar 06, 2021

A Sled Named Pre-1918 Perhaps my best bit of imaginative music criticism-- Between Sea and Sky is like Citizen Kane. Between Sea and Sky opens with a wisp of a tune--four notes rising stepwise. 100% pre-1918. The opening …

• Mar 01, 2021

David Loeb Website a masterpiece, David Loeb's Fantasy on a Rondeau of Dufay-- [smplayer tag=Loebdufay=bar-ui bar-ui=full-width] Although David Loeb began composing at the age of six, he destroyed everything he had …