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There has been a good deal of debate over the years as to the way in which serial music is understood by a listener and how this is important. Many have questioned the audibility of serial processes, such as Lehrdahl, but to me and many others this is a non-issue unless such the hearing of the...

Overgrown Path is a terrific music blog and this is a terrific article on the issue of concentration/constipation of repertoire and how it might be overcome for the benefit of music as a whole. The links to his other blog post are well worth reading too (I do and don't agree with him on the...

Take a minute to read Alex Ross, in a New Yorker article from a few years ago. He draws on the work of audience sociologists like William Weber and James Johnson. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/09/08/why-so-serious Indeed, the aristocratic playground of the Paris Opera in 1780 wouldn't...