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Transformation as Authorship: From Igor Stravinsky to Philip Glass by Way of Disney and Beck
Transformation as Authorship: From Igor Stravinsky to Philip Glass by Way of Disney and Beck

On incremental change and “unresisting imbecility.”

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David Byrne on How Music and Creativity Work
David Byrne on How Music and Creativity Work

“Presuming that there is such a thing as ‘progress’ when it comes to music is typical of the high self-regard of those who live in the present. It is a myth. Creativity doesn’t ‘improve.'”

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Tchaikovsky on the Paradox of Patronage and the Challenge of Retaining Creative Freedom in Commissioned Work
Tchaikovsky on the Paradox of Patronage and the Challenge of Retaining Creative Freedom in Commissioned Work

“I should be guilty of artistic dishonesty were I to abuse my technical skill and give you false coin in exchange for true only with a view to improving my pecuniary situation.”

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August 22, 1969: The Beatles’ Final Photo Shoot
August 22, 1969: The Beatles’ Final Photo Shoot

The Fab Four with Yoko Ono and Linda McCartney at Tittenhurst Park.

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The Science of How Music Enchants the Brain, Animated
The Science of How Music Enchants the Brain, Animated

How harmony, melody, and rhythm trigger the same reward systems that drive our desires for food and sex.

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Emily Dickinson’s Poetry Set to Song by Israeli Singer-Songwriter Efrat Ben Zur
Emily Dickinson’s Poetry Set to Song by Israeli Singer-Songwriter Efrat Ben Zur

An enchanted celebration of music and literature.

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E. E. Cummings Set to Song
E. E. Cummings Set to Song

“lovers go and lovers come/ awandering awondering/ but any two are perfectly alone/ there’s nobody else alive”

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The Beatles in Comics
The Beatles in Comics

A graphic history of the Fab Four.

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Nick Hornby on Your Cultural Snobbery
Nick Hornby on Your Cultural Snobbery

What Céline Dion has to do with Jonathan Franzen and the construction of intellectual identity.

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Introducing Literary Jukebox: Daily Book Quote Matched with a Song
Introducing Literary Jukebox: Daily Book Quote Matched with a Song

An experiment in cross-pollinating the arts.

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