Essays & Reviews (here and elsewhere)
Orchestrations: The Hidden Secret that Makes a Musical Great – MusicalWriters.com
Signifyin(g) with the Dead: Musical Memorialization at John Coltrane’s Funeral – Music & Literature
Ben Ratliff’s Every Song Ever – Music & Literature
Ringing Bell Or Smoke Machine: Technology and authenticity in the Punch Brothers’ “Familiarity”
New Ways to Keep Score: Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians
Musical Understanding and the Critical Mindset
Developing the Musical Negative: an analysis of the fourth movement of Bartok’s String Quartet no. 4