Monthly Archives: August, 2010
An historical
Something of a language-evolution-now observation: I had always thought that “an historical” is wrong, and the result of us getting lazy with our aspirated “h” sounds. It should be printed as “a historical,” at least for now. Nonetheless, I and many others pronounce it “anistorical” when speaking quickly, so I’m totally down with not pronouncing [...]
Music, the Arts, and Ideas – Leonard Meyer (1967)
Earlier this summer, I finished reading Meyer’s Music the Arts and Ideas. Now Leonard Meyer is no slouch in the field of music theory—his classic text Emotion and Meaning in Music (1956) has been endlessly cited for convincing music theorists that there might actually be something to *gasp* empirical descriptions of musical works! Of course, [...]
