December 24, 2009
Once upon a time . . . actually, when I started my job as Music History Professor at Southern Methodist University in 1985, I had to face facts: even with my fancy new Ph.D. in musicology, my musical education was filled with holes. There wasn’t a thriving concert life in my hometown of Roanoke, Virginia. [...]
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December 8, 2009
This chart is included in the workbook for Discovering Music: 300 Years of Interaction in Western Music, Arts, History, and Culture. Watch for more reference guides like this one in the near future. Eighteenth Century Enlightenment Nineteenth Century Romanticism Music is an expression of balance and reason. Music expresses the three “E’s”: emotion, enthusiasm, ecstasy. [...]
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