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The Joys of the Harpsichord
I once had the pleasure of attending a concert of P. D. Q. Bachโs music, put on by the inimitable Peter Schickele. (For those of you who have never...
Contrapuntal Order
Around the start of the seventeenth century, a new sense of the word โharmonyโ emerged. To that point, harmony in music had been produced by the pleasing opposition of...