“There’s this precious moment when it’s just you and the piece,” says Anthony K. Brandt, an assistant professor of music at Rice University. “I’d rather dwell on that moment,” he says, than on, say, a ...

Apart from a few popular composers who wrote memorable melodies — Copland, Gershwin, Debussy — the music of the 20th century is still viewed with a surprising amount of skepticism. In his new book, ...

Expressionism is a style of artistic representation in which emotional impressions and experiences of the external world are emphasized over purely representational forms. Bridging abstraction and ...

"Technology and music at the 23rd Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) in Budapest, August 1996"--Pref. Keyboards, crankshafts and communication, the ...

The literature of the early part of the twentieth-century poses a unique set of pedagogical challenges when introducing it to the undergraduate population. On the one hand, there are elements that ...