What do we possess today as “art”? A faked music, filled with artificial noisiness of massed instruments; a failed painting, full of idiotic, exotic and showcard effects, that every ten years or so ...
March is Women’s History Month, so I’ll be highlighting women in music. Germaine Tailleferre was a 20th century French composer whose Concertino for Harp and Orchestra reveals her commitment to ...
I. Materials of twentieth-century music : 1. Introduction : The artist and his environment ; The arts and the artist in the twentieth century -- 2. Melody : The concept of melody ; Melodic style in ...