The opening bars of Prokofiev’s first violin concerto always remind me of the start of the Sibelius concerto. Both begin sotto voce, with the violin wandering through a lyrical melody over a string ...
Paragraph, Vol. 31, No. 1, Roland Barthes Retroactively: Reading the Collège de France Lectures (March 2008), pp. 9-22 (14 pages) Though explicit references to music are infrequent in Barthes's ...
The American Scholar is the venerable but lively quarterly magazine of public affairs, literature, science, history, and culture published by the Phi Beta Kappa Society since 1932. In recent years the ...
Composers over the centuries have utilized music written by their predecessors as building blocks in their own works, whether Brahms’s “Variations on a Theme by Haydn,” Mozart’s “Variations on a Theme ...
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