by David Evan Thomas | Jul 3, 2022 | Composition, Music Theory, Musicianship, My Blog |
For Liz Pauly Today’s the fourth of July Another June has gone by And when they light up our town I just think what a waste of gunpowder and sky. (Aimee Mann, “4th of July”) Some years ago, I sang in a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration at the...
by David Evan Thomas | Aug 23, 2021 | Composers, Composition, Musicianship |
Reading the Bach chorales If you’ve ever wondered how there can be 1126 works in Wolfgang Schmieder’s Bach Werke Verzeichnis, it’s because the first 224 are cantatas and Nos. 250–438 are chorale harmonizations. The chorales are little worlds unto themselves,...
