Art & Individuality
The Elegy in Music, Part 3: (Neo)-Classical – Liszt, Pärt, Bartók
La lugubre gondola, Cantus, Elegies 1 & 2 (Liszt | Bartók)
The Elegy in Music, Part 2: Jazz – Mingus, Monk, Strayhorn
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, Crepuscule with Nellie, Blood Count
Roman Polanski’s Tess – Analysis: Dissonance, Simulacra
Tess: Beyond realism: Hardy’s novel & Polanski’s film
Geoffrey Hill’s ‘The Songbook of Sebastian Arrurruz’ – Analysis
Lover & beloved in Geoffrey Hill’s poetic sequence
Top Ten Guitar Solos: An Alternative Perspective
What makes a great guitar solo? How about ‘having something to say’?
Wagner and the Sublime: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
From physical jouissance to metaphysical experience.
Wagner: Tannhäuser – Musicological Analysis & Feminist Critique
‘The Glitter of a High-Class Brothel’