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  • January 27, 2022

    Art About Music: Jacob Ochtervelt’s “Street Musicians at the Door” (1665)

    (The musicians are playing violin and hurdy-gurdy.) Continue reading

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  • January 12, 2022

    Art About Music: Vida Gabor’s “Old Friends” (1955)

    (The artist was also a musician: he was a flute soloist with the Budapest Opera for over twenty years.) Continue reading

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  • January 4, 2022

    Art About Music: Photo Of The N.S.G.W. Drum Corps (wearing flu masks) Celebrating The End Of WWI In Sebastopol, CA (1918)

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  • December 29, 2021

    Art About Music: Eduard Charlemont’s “A Drink for the Drummer”(1889)

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  • December 21, 2021

    Art About Music: Salvador Dali’s “Music – The Red Orchestra” (1957)

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  • December 14, 2021

    Art About Music: Jose Manuel Capuletti’s “Allegory Of Music” (1946)

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  • December 7, 2021

    Art About Music: “Winslow Homer’s “Sounding Reveille” (1871)

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  • November 30, 2021

    Art About Music: Emil Rau’s “A Serenade” (1937)

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  • November 23, 2021

    Art About Music: Edgar Degas’s “Café Singer” (1879)

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  • November 16, 2021

    Art About Music: Jean-Antoine Watteau’s “La Surprise” (1718)

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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.

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