“When in doubt, cite Grout,” my mother said. She was referring to Donald Jay Grout’s “A History of Western Music.” First published by W.W. Norton in 1960, it has gone through 10 editions and is ...
It’s exciting news, if a bit niche: Researchers have attributed two new works to Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). The announcement this week coincided with the 75th anniversary of the Bach Archive ...
“Niche Bach, sondern Meer!” (Not a brook, but an ocean!) – opinion of Johann Sebastian Bach and pun by Ludwig van Beethoven On March 31, 1685, Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Holy Roman ...
So an astonished Mozart tells Baron Gottfried van Swieten after being introduced to “The Art of Fugue.” “How did you get ahold of this if it was never printed?” Mozart asks. “I had it copied in ...
Physicists at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) have investigated to which extent a piece of music can evoke expectations about its progression. They were able to ...
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