Music and the Harmonic Order
The Architecture of Feeling
On Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and the two Strausses; why the classical tradition hits differently; and what regular engagement with complex tonal music does to the brain that nothing else does
Music and the Harmonic Order
Music and the Harmonic Order
The Character of the Key
On key colour, what Bach and Beethoven actually heard when they wrote, and what equal temperament flattened when it made every key sound the same
Music and the Harmonic Order
The Comma and the Compromise
On the Pythagorean comma, the history of tuning systems, and how the most consequential aesthetic decision in Western music history was an Emissary move that traded living resonance for universal transposability