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Italian Renaissance painter, author, architect, and poet Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) is best known for his multi-volume Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (1st ed. 1550, 2nd ed. 1568), the first artist biographies to be published and a multi-volume book that is considered a foundation for the modern discipline of art history. By […]
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Alleluia Pie pater dominice in the Dominican exemplar manuscript Rome, Santa Sabina, XIV L 1, f. 353v A new chant had been composed for St Dominic’s feast day. The scribe was stumped. He had been hired to copy the text of the first manuscript of the newly authorised Dominican liturgy; he knew that a new […]
Read MoreWhen Lucy Walker and I began work on Elizabeth Maconchy in Context, we were motivated by a simple conviction: Maconchy’s music and career demand a fuller account than she has usually been granted. She was one of the most prominent and successful twentieth-century composers, yet she is still too often reduced to a few familiar […]
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Samantha Ege: The Cambridge Companion to Florence B. Price is the book I needed when I was a student. Cambridge Companions were always my go-to during my studies because they do such a brilliant job at guiding you through the life and music of a composer. But when I learned about Florence Price, there was […]
Read MoreThe fourth track on Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series Volume 1 is a song called ‘No More Auction Block’. The melody is simple, rising and falling in hymn like steps over acoustic guitar. The song’s lyrics are also simple and adamantly clear—a call to end the horrifying spectacle of Black humans being sold as slaves, objects […]
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Though associated with nighttime dance parties and clubs, electronic dance music has saturated many aspects of contemporary culture. We hear it in adverts and shops. Even some restaurants employ a DJ to play dance music, although people are seated to eat and are unlikely to get up for a boogie. According to Google’s Ngram viewer, […]
Read MoreWe’ve all received what used to be called a “left-handed compliment,” a comment or judgement that seems positive on the surface, but holds a thinly veiled insult. Parisian composer Louise Farrenc (1804-1877) found herself on the receiving end of that sort of compliment throughout her career as a composer, pianist, and teacher at the famous […]
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I have been writing about Cuban music and popular culture for some time, as an outsider. It is a fraught position: being based in the United States, strongly attracted to Cuban heritage, trying to undertake rigorous research and pursue sensitive topics while frequently being perceived as someone who may have an ax to grind as […]
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