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Contemporary Music - Thoughts & Ideas

Contemporary Music Thoughts and Ideas: Articles, Blogs, Journals and Online Books

2 Pointzero Music
21st Century Music
Aatonal
across the waves (sylvi macCormac)
aleatoric
Alex Ross: The Rest is Noise
AtlantaComposers.com
Avant Music News
aworks:: "new" american classical music
Basically Modern
because they are dead (Paul Bailey)
beepSNORT
Boring Like a Drill (Ben Harper)    check his Idex of Names
cacophonous.org
cecdiscuss: The International Electroacoustic Community Discussion Group Mailing List
Classical-Drone (Caleb Deupree)
ClassicallyHip
Common Tone
Composing Thoughts
Computer Music Blog
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz's Blog
The Detritus Review
Diaries of a Contemporary Music Lover
Discourses in Music
Dr. Dick's Blog
EarRelevant
Eastside View
eclectic i
Edge of the Center (SUNY Buffalo, New York, USA)
ESTWeb
Experimental Music Catalogue
Felsenmusik (Daniel Felsen)
Film Music: The Neglected Art
Gluon.Symmetry
Industrial Music Library
JMI - Journal of Music in Ireland
Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar
Kyle Gann see PostClassic    PostClassic - Kyle Gann on Music After the Fact
The Living Composer
Marcus Maroney - Sounds Like New
Mikropolyphonie
Modernclassical
Mozart in the Jungle (Blair Tindall)
The Muse at Sunset (Forrest Covington)
Music after 1968
Musical Assumptions (Elaine Fine, composer)
Musical Contrarian: Horizons "83
Neils MU4100 Blog
Networked Music Review
NewMusicBox
New Music Connoisseur
New Music reBlog
New From Third Angle and Beyond (Ron Blessinger)
No Extra Notes (Richard Zarou)
Of Music and Men
The Omniscient Mussel
On Contemporary Music
On an Overgrown Path
On Greek Classical Music
Opera in the 20th Century
Orpheus Music: The Electronic Music Time Machine
The Other Music (horaciopiniones.blogspot.com)
Paris Transatlantic Magazine
Perspectives of New Music
Pith Music (Adorno Ensemble)
PostClassic - Kyle Gann on Music After the Fact
Pretentious Bullshit: Adventures in Music (John Phastings)
The Rambler
Renewable Music (Daniel Wolf)
Resonate
The Rest is Noise see Alex Ross
Roger Bourland/Writes About Music and Life
Le Roi s'amuse
Sandow: Greg Sandow on the Future of Classical Music
The Score (Canadian Music Centre)
Sequenza 21/The Contemporary Classical Music Portal
Stranota - glancing at innovative instruments and musicians
ThisIsNotALabel.com - Making Music in the Information Revolution
time4time
The View From Here (Andrew Patner)
What I Like About… (Isaac Watras)
You Could Feel the Sky (Brendan McNamara)


Thoughts Archive
Giving New Composers a Hearing (Time Magazine)
I Feel as if a See Music (Andras Lindner, Worldpress.org, HVG independent weekly)
Tanglewood Festival: Verdi a Villian (Allan Kozinn, The New York Times)
New Winds in Estonian Music (Kalevi Aho, Finnish Music Quarterly)
Does Contemporary Classical Music Have a Future? (James MacMillan, Guardian Unlimited)
New Composers of Tonal Classical Music, Part II (David Arditti, EP&M Online Essay)
Composers Mining the Music of Their Youth (Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times)
Music Acoustics and Contemporary Musical Composition (Gerald Bennett, Acoustics.org)
Top 12 Contemporary Music Albums of 2005-2006 (moteldemoka.com)
Tributes Paid to Late Composer, Alun Hoddinott (BBC News)
Concert Become Memorial for Univesity of California Professor, Composer (Robert Taylor, Oakland Tribune)
Composers in Waiting, Well, Wait (Allan Kozinn, The New York Times)
Sites and Sounds: Filling the new-music map (Alex Ross, The New Yorker)
Urban Disaster: The Opera (Norman Lebrecht, La Scena Musicale)
The Geometry of Music (Michael D. Lemonick, Time.com)
Making the Case for Contemporary Music (Bob Shingleton, On an Overgrown Path)
Three Contemporary Composers at the Cabrillo Music Festival (Jason Serinus, Andante.com)
Chasing a Music that Didn't Exist (Norman Lebrecht, La Scena Musicale)
The Score - Four Innovative American Composers Sound Off: 25 Questions (Glenn Branca, The New York Times)
Contemporary Music in Evolution (The Eastside View Blog)
Birtwistle's Musical Creatures Lure Londoners (Norman Lebrecht, Bloomberg.com)
For Contemporary Music Times are Hard [January 8, 1991] (Allan Kozinn, The New York Times)
A Composer's Century (Philip Glass, Andante.com)
Review of the Year: Contemporary Music (Ivan Hewett, The Telegraph)
Thoroughly Modern Music (Randall Roberts, River Front Times)
Far From Music Capitals, an Ohio Conservatory Fosters Contemporary Sounds (Vivien Schweitzer, The New York Times)
When the Style is No Style (Michael Walsh, Time.com)
OHM - The Early Gurus of Electronic Music (Perfect Sound Forever)
Making it New (Alex Ross, The New Yorker)
Tan Dun Talks on Water (Brett Campbell, Andante.com)
The Open Universe (by Jan Vriend)
The Beaten Path: A History of American Percussion Music (Nicole V. Gagne, NewMusicBox)
Be Still, and Know That I Am God: Concert Halls Rediscover the Sacred (Martha Ainsworth @ metanoia.org)
The Geometry of Muscical Chords (Dmitri Tymoczko, Science Magazine)
The Composer's Art (James Fry, MCR)
Springtime in Paris: Les Six (Minnesota Public Radio)
20th Century Music (20th Century Arts and Humanities, Dr. Michael Delahoyde, Washington State University)
Ragtime (20th Century Arts and Humanities, Dr. Michael Delahoyde, Washington State University)
Jazz (20th Century Arts and Humanities, Dr. Michael Delahoyde, Washington State University)
Minimalism (20th Century Arts and Humanities, Dr. Michael Delahoyde, Washington State University)
Music at the End of the 20th Century (20th Century Arts and Humanities, Dr. Michael Delahoyde, Washington State Univ.)
Just Don't Call it Minimalism (The New York Times)
Roger Sessions, Adolph Weiss, Viril Thomson, Carl Ruggles, and Othergs (Old and Sold)
Free Your Mind And Your Ears Will Follow (Charles Michener, New York Observer)
Are Smart People Drawn To The Arts Or Does Arts Training Make People Smarter? (Science Daily)
Indian Music in Western Composition (Sandeep Bhagwati)
Forging the New: A Century of Performance Art (RoseLee Goldberg, Andante.com)
On Sewing Machines and Self-Expression: Mapping the Future in Sound (Lisa Bielawa, Andante.com)
Borne Back Ceaselessly Into the Past? (Greg Sandow, Andante.com)
Music and Technology: A Roundtable Discussion - Philip Glass moderates a discussion with four composers about digital technology's impact on new music (Andante.com)
The State of the Art (Jonathan Shearon, Music of Films Columns)
Who Says Classical Composers Can't Reflect Popular Culture? (GregSandow.com)
Declining Literacy 1: Man Plus Moment (Kyle Gann, PostClassic)
Declining Literacy 2: Music's Tower of Babel (Kyle Gann, PostClassic)
In Search of the Next Great American Opera (Anne Midgette, The New York Times)
The Business of Music, Part II: Music and the Mind/The Viennese School (Ernst Roth Part, MusicWeb International)
Electroacoustic Music in Canada: 1950-1984 (David Keane, Canadian Electroacoustic Community)
Electro-Acoustic Music in Czech Republic (Lenka Dohnalová)
20th Century Music (in 3 Parts) (Jack Logan, Ph. D.)


Online Books
Contemporary Anthology of Music by Women (James Briscoe, books.google.com)
Contemporary Composers On Contemporary Music (Elliott Schwartz and Barney Childs, books.google. com)
Electronic and Experimental Music (Thomas B. Holmes, Charles Scribner's Sons, books.google.com)
The Music of Louis Andriessen (Yayoi Uno Everett, books.google.com)
The Music Makers (Deena & Bernard Rosenberg, books.google.com)
Settling Scores: A Life in the Margins of American Music (Joseph Franklin, books.google. com)
What's the Matter with Today's Experimental Music? Organized Sound Too Rarely Heard (Leigh Landy, books.google.com)



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Pytheas Featured Thoughts Archive
What is a Piece of Music? (Adam Frey, San Fransisco Contemporary Music Players Blog)
Innovative Women Composers: Chen Yi
Schoenberg's 2nd String Quartet - The Day Music Went Mad (Norman Lebrecht, La Scena Musicale)
The Geometry of Music (Michael D. Lemonick, Time)
Chen Yi - Composer speaks her own language (Emily Brown, Accent, Ithaca College)
Kile Smith - Ensembles Unite in an Ambitious "Vespers" (David P.Stearns, Philadelphia Inquirer)
A Gallic Ghost Story (Bill Morelock, Minnesota Public Radio)
A Bold, Brash Cello Symphony (Michael Walsh, Time Magazine)
The Symphonic Alchemist: Kulesha transforms human experience into music (Robert Rival, SOCAN)
Concerto for Two Universes - Music of Mason Bates (by Donna Perlmutter, Los Angeles Times)
"like raindrops we have dispersed all over the immense world ..." an interview with Karel Husa (The Free Library)
Composer & Quartet Educate & Entertain (Christopher Hyde, Maine Sunday Telegram)
Voices in the Dark  -  The Music of Alfred Schnittke (Adrian Searle, The Guardian)
Qu Xiao-Song - A Master of Tense Silence (Yingying, CRIEnglish.com)
Jean Coulthard - A Life in Music (A Book Review by J. Drew Stephen, CAML Review)
Samuel Barber - Die Natali, Chorale Preludes for Christmas (Answers.com/All Music Guide)
Chasing a Music That Didn’t Exist - Harrison Birtwistle (Norman Lebrecht, La Scena Musicale)
Alvin Lucier on  "Music On A Long Thin Wire" (Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever)
Jon Leifs: Iceland's Santified Son (Alda Sigmundsdotti, Scandinavian Review)
Igor Stravinsky and the Making of a Love Triangle (Natalie Shearer, Classical Music Pages)
The Magical Hidden Corners of Erik Satie (Matthew Westphal, Andante.com)
Sound Investments: The Commissioning Portfolio of Kathryn Gould (Molly Sheridan, NewMusicBox)
Three Questions Before the First Night (Carson Cooman, Music & Vision)
OHM - The Early Gurus of Electronic Music (Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever)
Roger Sessions and the Dilemma of Contemporary Classical Music (Charles Hamm, NewMusicBox)
Contemporary Music in Evolution (Charles Shere, The Eastside View Blog)
In Memoriam: George Perle - Composer, Theorist, Mentor (Steven L. Rosenhaus, NewMusicBox)
Sermon on the Life and Music of Jean Langlais (Colin Spinks, St. Mary le Strand)
Be Still, and Know That I Am God: Concert Halls Rediscover the Sacred (Martha Ainsworth @ metanoia.org)
Are Smart People Drawn To The Arts Or Does Arts Training Make People Smarter? (M. Gazzaniga, Dana Foundation)
The Beaten Path: A History of American Percussion Music (Nicole V. Gagne, NewMusicBox)
The Composer's Art (James Fry, Musical Composition Resource)
A Composer's Century (Philip Glass, Andante.com)
Aulis Sallinen, Strong and Simple (Martin Anderson, Finnish Music Quarterly)
Composers Mining the Music of Their Youth (Anthony Tommasini, NY Times)
Tod Machover and Dan Ellsey Play New Music (TED/Technology, Entertainment, Design)
The Problem of Pitch - Seeking a Lasting Repertoire (Samuel Solomon, NewMusicBox)
The Fight for Shostakovich (Norman Lebrecht, La Scene Musicale)
Turning Circles and Squares Into Noise (Adam Shatz, The New York Times)
2001: A Space Odyssey - Alex North's unused Soundtrack (mfiles)
Her WWII Love Letter Inspires a Cantata (Channing Gray, The Providence Journal)
A Piano Method by Claude Debussy: Debussy's Ideas on Piano Playing (by Karstein Djupdal)
Who Says Classical Composers Can't Reflect Popular Culture? (GregSandow.com)
Declining Literacy 1 (Kyle Gann, PostClassic)    and    Declining Literacy 2 (Kyle Gann, PostClassic)
In Search of the Next Great American Opera (Anne Midgette, The New York Times)
"Do Not Take Up Music Unless..." (Dan Locklair)
Digitality of the Opera - Two Cases (Jelena Novak, e-volucija)
Make Your Own Rules: Notes on Composition (John Corigliano, NewMusicBox)
A Trilogy With No Prequels (Andy Goldsbrough, Film Score Monthly)
Springtime in Paris: Les Six (Minnesota Public Radio)
Remembering Arthur Berger (Grant Chu Covell, La Folia)
Ralph Vaughan Williams and 49th Parallel (Rolf Jordan, Powill-Pressburger)
Joyful and Joyless for the Masses: Auric’s Music for La Rue sans joie (1938) (Colin Roust)
Who Says Classical Composers Can't Reflect Popular Culture? (GregSandow.com)
The Open Universe (by Jan Vriend)
Intrepid Journeys Lead to Ambitious Works (Vivien Schweitzer, The New York Times)
Borne Back Ceaselessly Into the Past? (Greg Sandow, Andante.com)
Music of Conviction (James Loader, TimeEurope)
Marta Ptaszyńska - Portrait in Music (Zbigniew Granat, Polish Daily News)
Gettin Jiggy With Stravinsky (The Wake)
Musical Ode to Hank Aaron, Jackie Robinson and Josh Gibson ... (Martin Steinberg, Associated Press)
Brain Disease Shaped Boléro (John Whitfield, Nature)
Samuel Barber: American's Composer (Paul Varnell, Chicago Free Press/Independent Gay Forum)
He's Dropped the Chains, But Not the Vision (Jeremy Eichler, The Boston Globe)
On Sewing Machines and Self-Expression: Mapping the Future in Sound (Lisa Bielawa)
William Walton: The Enfant Terrible of Oldham (Bayan Northcott, The Independent)
Ástor Piazzolla: Chronology of a Revolution (Jorge Pessinis & Carlos Kuri, piazzolla.org)
Tan Dun Talks on Water (Brett Campbell, Andante.com)
To Sing Is to Fly (American Choral  Directors Association, North Central Division)
Arturo Márquez: The Folk Spirit in Orchestral Music (Luis Rumbaut, Latin Amer. Folk Institute)
A Subtext for Deepening Confusions: Steve Reich at 70 (Norman Lebrecht, La Scena Musicale)
The Unique And Exhilerating Symphonies of Danish Composer Carl Nielsen (The Horn)
Origins: How does An Opera Come About (Karren Alenier, Scene4 Magazine)
Electronic Music in Eastern Europe, Chapter 5 (Jorge Munnshe, amazings.com)
John Harbison: The Pope's Composer (Jeremy Baskin, The Tech Online)
Muzsikás and Béla Bartók (Louis Proyect)
Bright Lights on a Powerful Woman (James L. Paulk, New Music Connoisseur)
Free Your Mind And Your Ears Will Follow (Charles Michener, New York Observer)  -  see current Pytheas Featured Article