Dominic Marcella
THE PROBLEM WITH POST-MODERN CRITICS
By Cody Thomas
In our last issue, my close friend and fellow Troubadour founder Dominic Marcella wrote a stimulating piece on contemporary composition. This is a response to his argument regarding the decline of contemporary music in the academic world.
I’d like to preface my response by noting one thing that my partner and I agree [...]
HOW WE PERCEIVE MUSIC
By Dominic Marcella
Much of the musical dialectic that I have recently encountered emphasizes the notion of expressivity in music. I have often heard it argued that a particular piece of music is either expressive or not expressive (and is consequently either good or not good), but to focus on such a notion of expressivity [...]
THE PROBLEM WITH POST-MODERN MUSIC
By Dominic Marcella
It’s hard to know what to make of post-modern music. Sometimes, one might wonder if it is music at all.
There is no clear-cut definition of music – musicians, philosophers, and scientists have been arguing about it for years. But why bother? In an ideal world, everyone would simply listen to [...]
Editor’s Letter
I couldn’t be bothered to count the number of issues that face a nascent music publication today. Needless to say, there are many. Most are matters of logistics and practicality. These are, perhaps, worth discussing at a later time, but today I’d like to address a much more important, much more fundamental [...]
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