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April 8, 2020

Lucas van Leyden’s “The Musicians” (1524)

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April 1, 2020

Art About Music: Nainsukh of Guler’s “Trumpeters” (1735-1740)

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March 25, 2020

Gino Severini’s “The Accordian Player” (1919)

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March 16, 2020

Art About Music: Eventide’s “Omnipressor” (1974)

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March 10, 2020

Art About Music: Victor Eeckhout’s “The Musicians Of Tangiers” (1856–1879)

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March 3, 2020

Art About Music: Steinberg’s Cubase “Key Edit Window” (1989)

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February 25, 2020

Art About Music: Spotify’s Genre Categories (2020)

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February 20, 2020

Art About Music: “Portrait Of A Musician Holding Bagpipes” (Netherlands, 1632)

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February 11, 2020

Art About Music: Leopold August Abel’s “The Musicians At The Ducal Chapel Of Mecklenburg-Schwerin In 1770” (1770)

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February 5, 2020

Art About Music: John Singer Sargent’s “Capri Girl on a Rooftop” (1878)

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Thomas Brett is a musician and writer who holds a PhD in ethnomusicology from New York University. He is the author of Principles of Electronic Music Production and The Creative Electronic Music Producer, a book described by Sound On Sound magazine as “a deep philosophical analysis of the various creative inspirations, ideas and processes involved in producing electronic music.” His essays have appeared in the journals Popular Music and Popular Music and Society, as well as edited collections by Routledge, Oxford, and Cambridge University presses. Thomas has played percussion on Broadway since 1997 and writes about music at brettworks.com.