But right now I want to look back at the year and pick out some posts that I think represent the best of the Music Salon. I hope you will take some time to look at them and, if you have some comments, especially general ones about what you have enjoyed and what you would like to see more of, let 'em fly!
January:
- About the way our perception of Beethoven has changed over the years: http://themusicsalon.blogspot.com/2015/01/two-beethovens-at-least.html
- How the social justice crusade is actually very unjust: http://themusicsalon.blogspot.com/2015/01/beat-drum-equally.html
- How we impoverish our concert experience by excluding previously popular genres like the divertimento: http://themusicsalon.blogspot.com/2015/02/forbidden-genres.html
- By way of a discussion of an Alex Ross piece on Björk, I talk about the Hidden Commandments of the Powers that Be: http://themusicsalon.blogspot.com/2015/02/bjork.html
- Ten of my favourite pieces of music: http://themusicsalon.blogspot.com/2015/02/ten-favorite-pieces-of-music.html
- I took two posts to talk about the Beethoven Violin Concerto: http://themusicsalon.blogspot.com/2015/02/concerto-guide-beethoven-violin.html http://themusicsalon.blogspot.com/2015/02/concerto-guide-beethoven-violin_12.html
March:
- In which I talk about aesthetic relativism and how it relates to moral relativism: http://themusicsalon.blogspot.com/2015/03/aesthetic-facts-and-opinions.html
- In which I talk about one of the fundamentals of the history of music in the 20th century and what is wrong with it: http://themusicsalon.blogspot.com/2015/03/emancipation-of-dissonance.html
- In this post I am claiming that the real purpose and end of music is the pleasure of the listener: http://themusicsalon.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-pleasures-of-music.html
- Here is a post about one of the very greatest pieces of music of all time: http://themusicsalon.blogspot.com/2015/04/bach-mass-in-b-minor.html
May:
- Here is one of my quirky looks at the theory of music in which I talk about the difference between structure and texture: http://themusicsalon.blogspot.com/2015/05/texture-and-structure.html
- This is one of the more thorough posts I have written on the notation of rhythm: http://themusicsalon.blogspot.com/2015/05/time-signatures-compound-composite-and.html
- This is a post that offers some ideas about why modernism happened: http://themusicsalon.blogspot.com/2015/06/a-culture-without-art.html
- Part of a series of posts on concertos, this one is on the Violin Concerto No. 1 by Prokofiev: http://themusicsalon.blogspot.com/2015/06/concerto-guide-prokofiev-violin.html
Well, that will give you something to browse through! I will do the second half of the year in another post.
And, as a musical envoi, here is Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchesta Seiji Ozawa, conductor in the Beethoven Violin Concerto:
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