Over the nearly ten years I have been doing the blog, there have been a wide range of different kinds of posts. One category was of the "miniature doctoral dissertation" variety where I, with little preparation and more chutzpah than finesse, try to take on some daunting topic. I think this might be because I did all the seminar work for a doctorate in musicology, but dropped out before the dissertation! Anyway, here are links to some posts where I took on a rather serious topic. Not always with great success, but with a certain flair:
- An early example looking at the element of originality in music: https://mexinter.net/2011/06/originality-in-music.html
- A look at the problem of harmony for a composer: https://mexinter.net/2011/07/problem-of-harmony.html
- Here is a look at different aspects of musical structure: https://mexinter.net/2011/10/musical-genres-and-musical-forms.html
- A look at a way of categorizing music in terms of its reception: https://mexinter.net/2012/07/private-vs-public.html
- Early on I also took a stab at musical historiography: https://mexinter.net/2011/07/conservatism-vs-progressivism.html
- And another way of looking at music history: https://mexinter.net/2012/10/music-history-in-two-dimensions.html
- I was just Facetiming with my ex-wife, who teaches in a private school in Germany and she commented that a very big problem with students now is that they seem to lack curiosity. We speculated that this was because everything is available--you don't have to dig around to find information. Contrast that with this post in which I talk about what it was like being a student at university in the 70s: https://mexinter.net/2019/06/the-universe-of-music.html
That is a somewhat haphazard selection of a few serious posts. Stay tuned, because next time I am going to collect a bunch of my least serious posts. Yes, and Yma Sumac is likely to make an appearance.
Our envoi today will be another of the Frankfurt daily concerts. This is a really unusual one. Oliver Leicht is a solo clarinetist and saxophonist who works with electronics. Put up on April 15:
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