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

Mozart and the Sonata Form

Mozart and the Sonata Form

David M. Greene

The only major genre in which Mozart presumably wrote more than he did in that of the piano-cum-violin sonata was the symphony, of which there are more than fifty examples,...

Mozart and the Sonata Form

David M. Greene

The only major genre in which Mozart presumably wrote more than he did in that of the piano-cum-violin sonata was the symphony, of which there are more than fifty examples,...

The Baroque Concerto in England, featuring Boyce and Woodcock

The Baroque Concerto in England, featuring Boyc...

David M. Greene

A recent history of 19th-century English music rather peevishly notes that, in terms of quanity not of quality, England was devoutly musical in that era. And certain­ly English performers, with...

The Baroque Concerto in England, featuring Boyc...

David M. Greene

A recent history of 19th-century English music rather peevishly notes that, in terms of quanity not of quality, England was devoutly musical in that era. And certain­ly English performers, with...

''Grandiose Sound''  On Christmas Day

''Grandiose Sound'' On Christmas Day

David M. Greene

Ah, yes! I see by the old (actually current) calendar on the wall that it's time for the annual weather report. Less than a month ago we had a week...

''Grandiose Sound'' On Christmas Day

David M. Greene

Ah, yes! I see by the old (actually current) calendar on the wall that it's time for the annual weather report. Less than a month ago we had a week...

Wonderful Playing -- Trevor Pinnock At The Victoria & Albert Museum

Wonderful Playing -- Trevor Pinnock At The Vict...

David M. Greene

For those of you who came in late, a couple of introductions are in order. First, Trevor Pinnock: Mr. Pinnock is the current darling, both as keyboard player and as...

Wonderful Playing -- Trevor Pinnock At The Vict...

David M. Greene

For those of you who came in late, a couple of introductions are in order. First, Trevor Pinnock: Mr. Pinnock is the current darling, both as keyboard player and as...

ESSAY: Mahler - A Painter of Sounds

ESSAY: Mahler - A Painter of Sounds

David M. Greene

  I am strongly tempted to say that Mahler's present high level of popularity is owing to the phonograph, but this is not strictly true. To be sure, the proponents...

ESSAY: Mahler - A Painter of Sounds

David M. Greene

  I am strongly tempted to say that Mahler's present high level of popularity is owing to the phonograph, but this is not strictly true. To be sure, the proponents...

ESSAY - BRAHMS: Continuing the Noble Tradition

ESSAY - BRAHMS: Continuing the Noble Tradition

Timothy Robinson

When one attempts this kind of discussion of Brahms's music, there inevitably comes to mind the story of Brahms and the unfortunate musical dilettante. It is said that one evening,...

ESSAY - BRAHMS: Continuing the Noble Tradition

Timothy Robinson

When one attempts this kind of discussion of Brahms's music, there inevitably comes to mind the story of Brahms and the unfortunate musical dilettante. It is said that one evening,...