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  • October 8, 2019

    Art About Music: Diego Velázquez’s “The Three Musicians” (c. 1616)

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  • October 1, 2019

    Art About Music: Jean-Michel Basquiat’s “Horn Players” (1983)

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  • September 24, 2019

    Art About Music: Rembrandt’s “Three Musicians (Allegory of Hearing)” (1624-25)

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  • September 17, 2019

    Art About Music: Gustav Klimt’s “Music” (1895)

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  • September 10, 2019

    Art About Music: Domenico Fetti’s “Portrait of a Man with a Sheet of Music” (c. 1620)

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  • September 3, 2019

    Art About Music: Jan Steen’s “A Young Woman playing a Harpsichord to a Young Man” (1659)

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  • August 27, 2019

    Art About Music: Pieter de Hooch’s “Musical Party In A Courtyard” (1677)

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  • August 20, 2019

    Art About Music: Niccolo Renieri’s “Musical Society” (17th century)

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  • August 13, 2019

    Art About Music: Thomas Cooper Gotch’s “A Pageant Of Childhood” (1899)

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  • August 7, 2019

    Art About Music: Thomas Brett’s “Music Video Shoot” (2019)

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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.

Recent Posts

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