February 2012
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The material of music is the tone; what it affects first, the ear. The sensory...
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Arnold Schoenberg - Harmonielehre
(via leadingtone)
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If you want to
challenge me in Words with Friends, my username is blogthoven.
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You never know
what you’ll find when you listen to John Williams.
Ligeti with some Richard Strauss and When You Wish Upon a Star? Why not?
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Anonymous asked: I enjoy your blog, and I tend to agree with your views. You do some good work here. That said, I think that to be fair, arts only becomes 'elitist' when people make it so. Many arts people don't "get" sports, and that's completely fine. But it goes both ways. You don't understand why throwing a ball around is important; others don't understand why playing a...
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The Superbowl
When sports become history.
Commercials become art.
Capitalism becomes the muses.
And the arts become elitist.
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chubbsubb asked: Hey i firstly want to say i'm a huge music lover and I've always been a massive fan of this blog. I don't usually do this kind of thing but that photo relating to the protests in Russia is firstly, photoshopped and secondly is from 1991. A blog called Shortformblog has all the substantiating links etc. Sorry if this seems a bit dickish but i just thought i should let you know. Keep...
Music at its best…is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our...
– Cornel West, The Cornel West Reader (via pigtailsandcombatboots)
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