BTW, I suspect a WordPress glitch may have failed to notify email subscribers of
my recent post on Nicolas Slonimsky’s wonderful memoir Perfect pitch—
and it’s Jolly Good, just saying…

I’ve just revised my introductory page on Western Art Music, with the addition of an off-piste selection of general writings that I find stimulating.

It extends from works within the field itself (Taruskin, Ross, Slonimsky, McClary, Butt, Lebrecht) to the broader perspectives of ethnomusicology (Becker, Small, Nettl) and ethnography (Finnegan, Cottrell, Tindall, Warnock).