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Bonsai Pieces: ideas about music in minimal doses

The Japanese call “Bonsai” the art of growing miniature trees. Aware of how often easier it is to write long essays than to produce concise pieces, here I try to express some of my ideas in a miniature form.

 

 

 

 

 

"Big book, big evil" growled Callimachus 23 centuries ago.
Parchment was in use at the time,
but he probably was not thinking of the sheep.

 

“Tous les genres sont bons hors le genre ennuyeux.”
Voltaire

 

 

 

  • Screen labels
  • A Close Encounter with J.S. Bach
  • Of Ducks, Music, and Cultural Relativism
  • Transsexual Guitars
  • Adele does not fit on paper
  • Philip V. Bohlman on Music
  • Operatic Pop
  • No Universal Language
  • Music as Biography
  • Compelled to be impeccable
  • Musical and extra-musical
  • Hard Rock, Heavy Metal and Grunge
  • How romantic...
  • Composers as performers
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