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
Music for Oboe and English Horn
No one seems to know for certain why oboe through did not continue its "rein of terror" the Classical period and on into the 19th century, but there was a...
Music for Oboe and English Horn
No one seems to know for certain why oboe through did not continue its "rein of terror" the Classical period and on into the 19th century, but there was a...
MOZART'S OUTER LIMITS
By the time he was 35 Mozart's vast experience as a composer (more than 600 works had accumulated) allowed him unprecedented ability in dealing with musical expression. His final Quintet,...
MOZART'S OUTER LIMITS
By the time he was 35 Mozart's vast experience as a composer (more than 600 works had accumulated) allowed him unprecedented ability in dealing with musical expression. His final Quintet,...
Unalloyed Pleasure: Two Guitars Save Music
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
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...