Scott Gleason, PhD
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Acquisitions Editor, Grove Music @academic.oup.com Author of *Composing Modernism* https://tinyurl.com/3sjezuy7 publishing October 13 @ucpress.bsky.social on the Princeton composer-theorists. #Arsenal. Views my own.
I'm biased because I'm friends with Andile, but holy moly is this an amazing article on perceptual and South African ancestral notions of decay....
Scott Gleason, PhD@buddytwo.bsky.social · 2d agoWell worth reading some heavy thoughts about musical decay and African composition by Andile Khumalo: herri.org.za/13/andile-kh...
Well worth reading some heavy thoughts about musical decay and African composition by Andile Khumalo: herri.org.za/13/andile-kh...
ANDILE KHUMALO | Issue #13
Introduction A sound does not instantly reveal all of its properties. While the initial portion of a sound may be the most intense and immediately perceptible, intensity does not equate to completenes...
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“It seems to me that what Alice Coltrane made from her gurus’ teachings was often more distinctive and convincing than the teachings themselves. The version she beheld in reverie would shine brighter than the original jewel.” —Ian Penman
All She Dreamed, by Ian Penman
Alice Coltrane’s dark night of the soul
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I mean, people overlook the just, meanness of these riffs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX4q...
Sick Of It All - "Scratch the Surface" EastWest Records
YouTube video by BlankTV
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The finalists for the 2026 International Pet Photography Awards are a fun, heartwarming, playful and artistic look at the animals we choose to live among us—unless they choose us. See all the winners here: www.forbes.com/sites/cecili...
CFP: Bach & Dance (UMass Amherst Bach Symposium, 23-24 April 2027) Full CFP and abstraction submission here (deadline Tue Sep 1 2026): forms.gle/w1E8YCW7pmGH...
Great news from Early Music Theory: The *Proportionale musices*, ed. and trans. JJD, has now been added to the EMT website: earlymusictheory.org/Tinctoris/te... for Book I, earlymusictheory.org/Tinctoris/te... for Books II–III. Work is in progress on *De natura et proprietate tonorum*.
Johannes Tinctoris — Proportionale musices I
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Discount code for The Skywalker Symphonies now available!
RIP Lou Koller of Sick of It All. youtu.be/o-iMNS74Baw?...
Injustice System!
YouTube video by Sick Of It All - Topic
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Favorite African albums of the Seventies, a thread: Africa Dances (1973) This JS Roberts comp was one of the first exposures of Americans to Afropop. It begins with all-timer "African Jazz Mokili Mobimba" (miscredited to OK Jazz) then goes places that remain mysterious today. Who was Miss Smodern?
Various Artists - Africa Dances (1973)
YouTube video by GothicArchies1
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The AMS Study Group for Early Musics Skills & Resources is delighted to announce Early Music 101, a new series of interactive online workshops aimed at advanced undergraduates and graduate students curious about musical practices before 1600.
Early Musics Skills and Resources Study Group – American Musicological Society
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I had to secure permission to use one epigraph. They’re not really fashionable anymore, so.
Michelle Chen@michellechn.bsky.social · 2w agoI joke, but I actually love explaining permissions to my authors. That said, for the love of god, cut some of your epigraphs people! #amediting
Newly rewritten Grove Music entry on Kaija Saariaho by Liisamaija Hautsalo!! www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/d...
Saariaho, Kaija
"Saariaho, Kaija" published on by Oxford University Press.
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"There are two means of refuge from the misery of life, music and cats". #Caturday #CatsLover #CatsOfBluesky
An update on Jennifer Finch's fundraiser from her team thanks everyone for their contributions and helping her in her final days -- among other news regarding her archive, it turns out she completed a memoir shortly before her diagnosis, and it will be released early next year.
Donate to Jennifer Finch vs. Brain Cancer: It’s Time to Make Noise, organized by Aubree Miller
If you've followed Jennifer Precious Finch over the years, you… Aubree Miller needs your support for Jennifer Finch vs. Brain Cancer: It’s Time to Make Noise
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Got these when they were originally issued. Insane that they are long out of print. Rare opportunity to hear Ornette with a pianist- Geri Allen. Each album has unique versions of the same 14 compositions. Interesting to contrast/compare the performances. bsky.app/profile/burn...
Burning Ambulance@burningambulance.bsky.social · 2w agoToday's newsletter is a 30th anniversary look back at two Ornette Coleman albums that have been out of print almost that long, SOUND MUSEUM: HIDDEN MAN and SOUND MUSEUM: THREE WOMEN: burningambulance.substack.com/p/ornette-co...
Nation Wakes Up From Strange Dream Where They Were Watching Soccer https://theonion.com/nation-wakes-up-from-strange-dream-where-they-were-watching-soccer/
Johnny Dyani Quartet • Confession Of Moods
Confession of Moods
YouTube video by Johnny Dyani - Topic
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