Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to August. The sun is shining, the air is thick with the scents of cut grass and barbecues, and after a thoroughly enjoyable but rather busy July, I am on holiday. Or, if you want to make it sound more official in out of office messages,
A number of years ago, as I was slogging my way through my massive PhD prep reading list, I came upon a brilliant article by the Chopin scholar Jeffrey Kallberg. In it, he takes inordinate time and care to address the question of genre: how we define a musical genre,
If this week’s post is both a little later, and a little less coherent than its predecessors, I offer apologies. I have just returned (well, very late last night) from a wonderful week in sunny Toronto, where I attended the 18th Biennial International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music – and this
