A Student’s Guide to Music History — How Musical Canons Are Built
The classical canon can appear to be a natural collection of works that survived because their greatness was self-evident. Music history reveals a more complicated process.
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Using A Student’s Guide to Music History by R. J. Stove as our lens, this episode investigates how historical knowledge changes what listeners can hear in Western classical music. Stove argues that context gives music a three-dimensional quality by connecting stylistic development to the humanity and circumstances of individual composers.
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