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Tag: MInimalism and Maximalism converging
1 January 2026
Glossary of Musical Terms
This is a glossary of terms in and around tricks of the trade, tricks that go back many centuries and are now mostly eclipsed. This is normal. There are always modalities that are in fashion, relegating other modalities to the …
13 October 2019
This was written in 2019, when I did not know that Brouwer had studied with Wolpe. Blame the late Frank Brickle for drilling it into me that Morton Feldman’s broken symmetries come from Wolpe. In the early 70s (?) Brickle was studying Feldman and …
12 October 2018
….the last bar of Terry Riley’s Y Bolanzero, for guitar orchestra–a wierd 8-note collection with no G#, no F#, no B, no D#….
Austrian guitar virtuoso Yvonne Zehner will be principal player with a crack group of Queens College …
