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by lochland 9y ago
Interesting to read that Bernstein was a member of the Communist Party. As someone who's studied music and been a fan of Bernstein for years, I've not once heard this, despite having read quite a bit about his music. His politics
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by lochland 10y ago
Cheng's definition of anarchism is "not having rules imposed on you". I'm afraid this article leftist-triggered me.
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by lochland 10y ago
Another excellent book on this subject, which examines Bach's counterpoint and its varied meanings to his contemporary society, including religious meanings, is "Bach and the meanings of counterpoint" by David Yearsley. A ter
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by lochland 10y ago
The introduction to the article is the second best introduction to any article ever. The first, which is in a totally unrelated field, is: "THEY do a lot of things wrong in the United States, but they do a lot of things right, too. The
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by lochland 10y ago
There are some basic errors, too, which are in the overarching structure of linguistic categories. For instance, 'and' is _not_ a preposition, as it states that it is in the language grammar sections. Perhaps this is a curmudgeonl
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Postmortem of an improvised music gig(loch.land)
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by lochland 11y ago
Your pointing to the Papal States reminds me: another period of Italy's history also demonstrates this narrative quite well. The Fascist government was the first body to publish a large amount of literature in Italian, which lead to mo
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by lochland 11y ago
Something that isn't directly addressed in this article is the astonishing fact that, despite Dante's having written seven centuries ago, Italians can still (with some difficulty) understand what is meant when they read his writin