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Ideas of Order in Key Western Musical Works

24 February 2026
Froberger & Buxtehude to Bach Bach clearly admired the bizarre in the works of Buxtehude and Froberger, and he composed all his own craziness into his revolutionary cosmic order wherein details of the A section that the work of modulating to V are …
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We Smoked the Last One an Hour Ago #1

23 February 2026
“Toss me a cigarette. I think there’s one in my rainoat.” “We smoked the last one an hour ago” (from Paul Simon’s “America”) Hats off to the few of Americans who know what they want. Most often we belong …
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Simeon ten Holt's Canto Ostinato

23 February 2026
Image–pianist Kees Wieringa, Simeon ten Holt’s great champion. Kees Wieringa’s Simeon ten Holt Playlist Kees Wierinng, at the YXIE Festival in Villebelevin, 2024, organized a performance a performance of ten Holt’s Canto …
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Shadows

20 February 2026
In diatonic music, the complement, the tritone transposition of the diatonic hexachord, emerges as the shadow, the unconscious of the diatonic hexachord that is held, that *governs* the surface. This is now an ancient 20th Century habit of thinking. No, …
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