What do we possess today as “art”? A faked music, filled with artificial noisiness of massed instruments; a failed painting, full of idiotic, exotic and showcard effects, that every ten years or so ...

I. Materials of twentieth-century music : 1. Introduction : The artist and his environment ; The arts and the artist in the twentieth century -- 2. Melody : The concept of melody ; Melodic style in ...

March is Women’s History Month, so I’ll be highlighting women in music. Germaine Tailleferre was a 20th century French composer whose Concertino for Harp and Orchestra reveals her commitment to ...

The protohistory of classical archaeology -- The foundations of classical archaeology -- The opening of Greece -- Nationalism and national traditions before the Great War -- The emergence of the great ...