By Lawrence Kramer, author of Music and the Forms of Life The concept of life has a long and complicated history, but its modern version can be said to date to the late …
Read More >In celebration of Classical Music Month, we are pleased to present the below reading list highlighting some of our recent and forthcoming titles of interest. To save 30% now—including backorders on not …
Read More >by Seth Brodsky, author of From 1989, or European Music and the Modernist Unconscious I’ve been thinking a lot about the categories historians rely upon, and their strange mix of power and …
Read More >We are delighted to announce that Martha Feldman was awarded the Otto Kinkeldey Award for her book, The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds, last week at the American Musicological Society’s annual conference. The Otto Kinkeldey …
Read More >By Karol Berger, author of Beyond Reason: Wagner contra Nietzsche This guest post is in celebration of #ClassicalMusicMonth. Stay tuned for more posts throughout September, and enjoy free access to curated Classical …
Read More >We listen to music for pleasure: that seems obvious. But what does it mean? I devote some pages to that deceptively simple question in my book The Thought of Music. The book …
Read More >This guest post is cross-posted from Joseph Horowitz’s blog, Unanswered Question. Horowitz is the author of Moral Fire and many other books. Previously a New York Times music critic, then Executive Director of …
Read More >In the newest Acquiring Eye feature, Humanities Publisher Mary Francis gives us her take on the music and cinema titles and journals coming out this spring. Starting with one of the flagship …
Read More >Guest Post by Lawrence Kramer “Why do we personify ourselves in music?” The question, emphasis included, came up in an earlier blog post of mine dealing with the impromptu competition among readers …
Read More >Guest Post by Lawrence Kramer Who, in rank order, were the ten greatest classical composers? Anthony Tommasini, the chief music critic of the New York Times, recently offered an annotated list (January …
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