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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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November 9, 2021

Art About Music: Silvestro Lega’s “The Song of a Stornello” (1868)

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October 15, 2021

Art About Music: Johannes Vermeer’s “The Guitar Player” (c. 1672)

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September 28, 2021

Fernand Khnopff’s “Listening To Music By Schumann” (1883)

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September 21, 2021

Art About Music: Marc Chagall’s “The Fiddler” (1913)

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September 8, 2021

Art About music: Leonardo da Vinci’s Drawings of a Mechanical Organ and Timpani Drums (c. 1478-1518)

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August 26, 2021

Art About Music: William Sidney Mount’s “The Power of Music” (1847)

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August 10, 2021

Art About Music: Detail from “The Engagement of St Ursula and Prince Etherius” (tapestry, c. 1520)

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August 3, 2021

Art About Music: William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s “The Bohemian” (1890)

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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.