by Kurt Knecht | Mar 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
I am happily working my way through Peter Kivy’s Philosophy of Music during Spring Break amidst some writing and a lot of grading. Though I am only halfway through, I can heartily recommend the book as an excellent introduction to the central issues in...
by Kurt Knecht | Mar 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
Naturally, we all have to do some things in order to eat. Life becomes very dangerous if you do something successful. Tremendous pressure and financial reward are brought to encourage you to produce “sequels”. I certainly don’t begrudge anyone the...
by Kurt Knecht | Mar 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
Today my eldest son, Zach, gifted me with a copy of Carl Manthey-Zorn’s Christenfragen. I think he said he picked it up at a Goodwill. It is a catechism of sorts published in 1914 in Milwaukee. It’s one of those books that was published for German...
by Kurt Knecht | Mar 21, 2014 | Uncategorized
One of the projects I always do toward the end of freshman theory is to spend the day with Schumann’s “Ich grolle nicht”. The freshies usually have enough tools at that point in the year to start talking in some more depth about structure and...
by Kurt Knecht | Mar 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
Typos happen to the best of us, but this one is remarkable. It posits a new attribute to the P transformation in neo-Riemannian theory. I am thinking of developing a new description of this relationship called a Clump-in-hauer network. The composer that showed me the...
by Kurt Knecht | Mar 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
I have known a few piano technicians in my day. One of my favorites was a particularly eccentric fellow I knew in Florida. Now, piano techs usually spend enormous amounts of time alone, so when you get them talking, it’s often hard to get them to stop. I...
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