The Piano in 100 Pieces
August 26, 2021
Susan Tomes— A history of the piano in only 100 pieces—how can that be? Doesn’t the piano have one of the most extensive literatures of music written for any instrument?… READ MORE
Tag: Music history
Beethoven’s ‘Last Musical Thought’
November 17, 2020
Laura Tunbridge— In 1840, the Berlin publisher Heinrich Schlesinger published a short piano piece as the Dernière pensée musicale de Louis van Beethoven. It was not, in fact, Beethoven’s “last musical… READ MORE
Cultural Exchanges and Trans-Atlantic Bonds: African Music and the Evolution of Blues and Jazz
October 21, 2020
Toyin Falola and Raphael Chijioke Njoku— The subject of Black music and its African cultural roots is arguably one of the most engaging topics in contemporary Africana studies, cultural anthropology,… READ MORE
The Historical Role of Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas
July 23, 2020
Charles Rosen— Proust’s grandmother was a woman of extremely modest, unpretentious demeanour, who never ventured to contradict anyone’s literary judgement: But on matters of which the rules and principles had been… READ MORE
Piracy’s Impact on the Creative Class
February 18, 2016
Scott Timberg— When you ask people why they steal music, or why they don’t care about the collapse of the record industry, the more informed ones talk about the decadence of… READ MORE
The History of Rock ‘N’ Roll in 10 Songs: A Conversation with Greil Marcus
May 30, 2014
Follow The History of Rock ‘N’ Roll in Ten Songs on Facebook! In anticipation of the Saturday, May 31 broadcast of the 2014 Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall of Fame inductees,… READ MORE
China Has Peaked? It Can Still Change World Order