Writings.

Bob Dylan’s
“Vignette Form”

The transition period between Bob Dylan’s folk and electric periods is a contentious period amongst Dylan fans and scholars.

“Neoclassicism”
in Beethoven’s
Op. 135

Beethoven’s final works are of great importance to understanding his artistic trajectory.

Bartók’s
Third Quartet

Formal & harmonic analysis

Perhaps no modern composer from the 20th century, outside of the prominent serialists, has received as much analytical attention as Bela Bartok.

Adams, Britten
& “Memorial
Space”

The concept of providing a space to a listener of a musical memorial is something relatively intangible, and difficult to describe.

Bach.
Hindemith.
Carter.

Perhaps the most contemplative, profound, and mournful of all of the Cello Suites: the second suite is notable for the rolling intensity of its prelude.

Prokofiev.
Shostakovich.
Ligeti.

This arrangement, by famed Russian violist and pedagogue Vadim Borisovsky is perhaps the most famous of his arrangements for viola and piano.

The Paradox
of Apostasy

Bob Dylan’s politics in the 1960s

To claim the unprecedented 60s musical output of Bob Dylan as purely ideological is tenuous.

Feldman
& Rothko

Aesthetic confluences

The seeming distance between the height of Abstract Expressionism in the visual arts and musical modernity is, in fact, fallacious.