Silences And Sounds

If you think about it, pandemic music is not always about remembering. Sometimes it is about not remembering. Or at least not staring strai...

In our medievalism discussions this semester, we’ve often asked a deceptively simple question: what does it mean to “use” the medieval pas...

In my Western Art Music seminar (a writing seminar, might I add), we started the term with the early symphony – a little Sammartini, a lit...

An auditory distraction — a crying baby, a ringing phone — hits like a punch to the gut, instantly demanding our attention. But recent stud...

Tufted titmouse with a call-out saying tweetle tweetle tweetle In What the Robin Knows , Jon Young suggests that we all follow the practice ...

  Image of female pilgrim with "sounds," "melodies," and "Hallucinations" as responding themes "Sum-tyme...

  Image of James Henry, poet of Menippea (1866) Henry, James. “It is just in Heaven to favor so the eyes.” [Poem written while walking fro...