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	<title>Ramble On</title>
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		<title>Sketching</title>
		<link>http://www.joshuaharris.us/blog/2009/09/20/sketching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Composing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Got down to making some firm decisions on a new work I&#8217;m composing for wind ensemble.  To avoid rewriting a summary, here&#8217;s an email I just sent the conductor of the ensemble planning to premiere it next spring.
The form and generative/governing concepts are fairly clear to me now.  It is all inspired by the Blue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>from &#8220;Composition as Process&#8221; by John Cage</title>
		<link>http://www.joshuaharris.us/blog/2009/09/19/from-composition-as-process-by-john-cage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joshuaharris.us/blog/2009/09/19/from-composition-as-process-by-john-cage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aesthetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[composition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Cage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The
mind may be used
either to ig-
nore ambient
sounds, pitches oth-
er then the eight-
y-eight, dura-
tions which are not
counted, timbres which
are unmusi-
cal or distaste-
ful, and in gen-
eral to con-
trol and under-
stand an avail-
able exper-
ience. Or the
mind may give up
its desire to
improve on cre-
ation and func-
tion as a faith-
ful receiver
of experi-
ence.
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		<title>Music of the Spheres</title>
		<link>http://www.joshuaharris.us/blog/2009/07/05/music-of-the-spheres/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joshuaharris.us/blog/2009/07/05/music-of-the-spheres/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Placement Exam Study]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aesthetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music history]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joshuaharris.us/blog/?p=149</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From Gioseffo Zarlino, Istitutioni harmoniche (1558)
&#8230;The Pythagoreans in particular believed that the world was composed musically, and that the heavens caused harmony in their revolutions, and that our soul is formed according to the same laws, and that it is awakened and its powers vivified by songs and instrumental music.
The ancient Greeks (and the Renaissance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How about another good, old-fashioned debate on church music?</title>
		<link>http://www.joshuaharris.us/blog/2009/07/05/how-about-another-good-old-fashioned-debate-on-church-music/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joshuaharris.us/blog/2009/07/05/how-about-another-good-old-fashioned-debate-on-church-music/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Placement Exam Study]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[church music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here is Niceta of Remesiana (On the Benefit of Psalmody, 4th century C.E.) after discussing church music at length (joyful noise, yada yada yada).  He ends this way:
Those, however, who are not able to blend and adapt themselves to the others, ought better to sing in a subdued voice than to create a great clamor; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tinctoris on Music Education</title>
		<link>http://www.joshuaharris.us/blog/2009/07/05/tinctoris-on-music-education/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joshuaharris.us/blog/2009/07/05/tinctoris-on-music-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Placement Exam Study]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music history]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joshuaharris.us/blog/?p=143</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Johannes Tinctoris in Proportionale musices (1474) talking about ancient Greece.
&#8230;nor was anyone ignorant of music considered an educated man.
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		<title>On the Basis of Western Music&#8211;or How Music Theory Ruined Western Music</title>
		<link>http://www.joshuaharris.us/blog/2009/07/01/on-the-basis-of-western-music-or-how-music-theory-ruined-western-music/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joshuaharris.us/blog/2009/07/01/on-the-basis-of-western-music-or-how-music-theory-ruined-western-music/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Placement Exam Study]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Modernism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Postmodernism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[theory]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joshuaharris.us/blog/?p=136</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, I know that sounds pretty inflammatory, especially coming from someone who kind of enjoys theory.  I&#8217;m just going to quote a couple of passages from James McKinnon, musicologist and editor of The Early Christian Period and the Latin Middle Ages, and briefly comment.
Musica in Late Antiquity was not so much the everyday product of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aristides Quintilianus on music</title>
		<link>http://www.joshuaharris.us/blog/2009/06/28/aristides-quintilianus-on-music/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joshuaharris.us/blog/2009/06/28/aristides-quintilianus-on-music/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music Definitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Placement Exam Study]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greek]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joshuaharris.us/blog/?p=130</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Music is a science of melos and of those things contingent to melos.  Some define it as follows:  &#8220;the theoretical and practical art of perfect and instrumental melos&#8221;; and others thus:  &#8220;an art of the seemly in sounds and motions.&#8221;  But we define it more fully and in accordance with our thesis:  &#8220;knowledge of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sing-aulos</title>
		<link>http://www.joshuaharris.us/blog/2009/06/27/aulos-sing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joshuaharris.us/blog/2009/06/27/aulos-sing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Placement Exam Study]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Crumb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music history]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joshuaharris.us/blog/?p=122</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[These days I am studying every day for my upcoming placement exams at UNT this August.  I&#8217;m going through all the online chapter outlines from the Norton history books and also reading Strunk&#8217;s Source Readings.  I had considered using this blog to summarize my studies every day, but decided that would get really dull.  However, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why does everyone hate opera?</title>
		<link>http://www.joshuaharris.us/blog/2009/04/11/why-does-everyone-hate-opera/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joshuaharris.us/blog/2009/04/11/why-does-everyone-hate-opera/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aesthetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bias]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rock]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.joshuaharris.us/blog/?p=99</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Megan and I were talking last night about opera.  She hates it (though she did really enjoy the one opera we&#8217;ve seen together&#8211;a BYU production of Le Nozze di Figaro).  She doesn&#8217;t like that style of singing.  It&#8217;s not an uncommon viewpoint among those of my generation and even the one before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Covers, part 2: Norah Jones</title>
		<link>http://www.joshuaharris.us/blog/2009/04/11/covers-part-2-norah-jones/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joshuaharris.us/blog/2009/04/11/covers-part-2-norah-jones/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[country]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cover]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Forgot what we were talking about&#8230;.
Megan: It reminds me of that Norah Jones song.
Me: &#8220;Don&#8217;t Know Why&#8221;?
Megan: No, &#8220;Cold, Cold Heart.&#8221;
Me: That&#8217;s a Hank Williams song.
Megan: Well, now it&#8217;s a Norah Jones song.

Link to the Hank Williams version.
]]></description>
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