The death of good music has been greatly exaggerated. Over the last year, just like in every year in recent memory, artists (and, it must be said, particularly young artists) have released so many stunning albums that keeping up with contemporary music is a practical impossibility. The following is thus an imperfect and very incomplete … Continue reading A Gertus History of Music’s Top 25* Albums of 2022
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Interlude: A Happy Accident
As we are wrapping up the Renaissance with Monteverdi breaking from the strict Palestrina mode of composition, I am editing future entries on Jean-Philippe Rameau, whose 1722 treatise, Traité de l'harmonie réduite à ses principes naturels, set forth the rules that would govern composition for the better part of the next 200 years. And, as … Continue reading Interlude: A Happy Accident
A Gertus History of Music 