• Dec 09, 2018

James Levine set a trap for Milton Babbitt at a Babbitt's 90th birthday celebration at Weill Hall. Levine produced the event through the MET Opera Chamber Players. Tenor Niel Farrell &I opened the concert with Babbitt's …

• Nov 29, 2018

Carter took one abrupt turn, and much later, a gentle turn. His music from the '50s did not draw a hard line around scale degrees. Scale degree associations were not avoided like the plague. He drew the line in the 60s or …

• Nov 29, 2018

The sound of the opening of Poema armónico is *minor 7 chord*, with little inflections to 027. To extend this sound through the chromatic space we have the octotonic option, transposing by multiples of 3, the minor third …

• Sep 09, 2018

Nowe Fale Gdańsk William Anderson, guitar/mandolin Joan Forsyth, piano Program Fouad (solo guitar)-- --Emil Awad Cerises* (solo guitar, premiere)-- --Agustin Castilla-Avila Simone’s Lullaby (piano solo)-- --Terry …

• Sep 09, 2018

focal pitches, vs. focal harmonies

• May 24, 2014

I think of the 3rd structural key as the one the composer elects, while the 2nd structural key (dominant) is "natural", because it is found on every time scale including the smallest--the overtone series. Examples: In Haydn …