Essays, articles and reviews from The Musical Heritage Review.

From 40 years of our monthly column "Exploring Music" to essays on a wide range of topics, The Musical Heritage Review took the original concept of an "expanded and improved liner notes" idea and became a magazine that was published 18 times a year for 40 years. From wild esoterica to thoughts about the weather, these essays are all about the joy of exploring music.

  • Exploring Music

    Written for over a decade almost exclusively by editor David M. Greene, "Exploring Music" essays accompanied Musical Heritage Society's Featured Selections. Usually between 5 and 7 essays were written for each edition of The Review, and David occasionally veered WAY off topic and added his own opinions about just about everything.

  • Essays

    Professors and musicians from the East Coast music schools wrote often for The Musical Heritage Review. The new fields of early music on historically informed instrument practice was a favorite topic of discussion (yay and nay), as was the doings of the Metropolitan Opera and...oh yes, record labels, like The Musical Heritage Society.

  • Reviews

    Each edition of The Musical Heritage Review contained hundreds of reviews. We've included many of these reviews on the product pages of the recordings we sell here at the site, but we will also feature many reviews here as well.

EXPLORING MUSIC

Unalloyed Pleasure: Two Guitars Save Music

Unalloyed Pleasure: Two Guitars Save Music

William Zagorski

So now we have the final irony: an instrument recently saved from undeserved obscurity by 20th-century technology is now responsible for rescu­ing three, and I hope many more, pieces of...

Unalloyed Pleasure: Two Guitars Save Music

William Zagorski

So now we have the final irony: an instrument recently saved from undeserved obscurity by 20th-century technology is now responsible for rescu­ing three, and I hope many more, pieces of...

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I Don't Have to Believe It If I Don't Want To

I Don't Have to Believe It If I Don't Want To

Paul Kresh

But Schubert dead? No, no. There is no need to believe it, as long as those melodies, and those rich harmonies, and the very vessels of classical form he extended...

I Don't Have to Believe It If I Don't Want To

Paul Kresh

But Schubert dead? No, no. There is no need to believe it, as long as those melodies, and those rich harmonies, and the very vessels of classical form he extended...

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OVERCOME BY BEAUTY - Ars Perfecta and the Harvard Glee Club

OVERCOME BY BEAUTY - Ars Perfecta and the Harva...

David M. Greene

Josquin is generally regarded as the Biggie between Dufay and Lassus.

OVERCOME BY BEAUTY - Ars Perfecta and the Harva...

David M. Greene

Josquin is generally regarded as the Biggie between Dufay and Lassus.

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Quietly Awaiting Resurrection

Quietly Awaiting Resurrection

Herman Tubullis

Ockeghem was one of the foremost teachers of his day, influencing many of the composers who followed him.

Quietly Awaiting Resurrection

Herman Tubullis

Ockeghem was one of the foremost teachers of his day, influencing many of the composers who followed him.

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Jazz As It Should Be

Jazz As It Should Be

Spencer Bennett

Lenny Breau, with regard to the above complaints, left us a legacy that reminds us how satisfying it is to return to the roots of jazz.

Jazz As It Should Be

Spencer Bennett

Lenny Breau, with regard to the above complaints, left us a legacy that reminds us how satisfying it is to return to the roots of jazz.

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Resurrecting America's Colonial Music

Resurrecting America's Colonial Music

David M. Greene

Readers of musical journalism will be aware that it is filled with a constant wailing and lamenting about how the contemporary American composer is ignored by opera companies, orchestras, soloists,...

Resurrecting America's Colonial Music

David M. Greene

Readers of musical journalism will be aware that it is filled with a constant wailing and lamenting about how the contemporary American composer is ignored by opera companies, orchestras, soloists,...

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