Todd M. McComb
Editorial Archive Index

This column archive was reconstructed, with simplified format, on April 4th 2010. The filenames and locations were modified, and a couple of bracketed comments were inserted (and dated) relating to offsite links. Otherwise nothing has been changed from the original text.

The following editorials are available:

Dynamism in score - 04/03/97
The old in the new - 04/10/97
Musical expression - 04/17/97
The masterpiece phenomenon - 04/24/97
Renaissance love songs - 05/01/97
The purpose of music - 05/08/97
The power of recording - 05/15/97
The power of recording II - 05/22/97
Tonality - 05/29/97
Theory & practice - 06/05/97
Orchestral music - 06/12/97
The early violin - 07/03/97
Reconstructing the past - 07/10/97
The retrospective view - 07/17/97
Anticipating the future - 07/24/97
Sonority, virtuosity, musicality - 07/31/97
Mathematical symmetry - 08/14/97
Theory & practice II - 09/04/97
Beethoven, part 1 - 09/18/97
Beethoven, part 2 - 09/25/97
Carnatic music - 10/09/97
Composing without text - 10/23/97
The future of Medieval Music - 11/06/97
Complexity - 11/20/97
The Romantics - 12/11/97
Brahms - 12/18/97

1997 in Review - 01/15/98
Western or Traditional? - 01/29/98
Dualism - 02/12/98
Symmetry relationships - 02/26/98
Originality & borrowing - 03/12/98
Tao of music - 03/26/98
Recorder Consorts - 04/09/98
The guqin zither - 04/23/98
Popular music - 05/07/98
Contrapuntal independence - 05/21/98
Vocal articulation - 06/04/98
Ockeghem - I. Context - 07/02/98
Ockeghem - II. Works, part 1 - 07/16/98
Ockeghem - II. Works, part 2 - 07/23/98
Ockeghem - III. Contemporary Relevance - 08/06/98
The masterpiece phenomenon revisited - 08/27/98
Constraint & Tradition - 09/10/98
Falsifiability - 09/24/98
Renaissance - 10/08/98
Ars Subtilior - 10/22/98
Drones & accompaniment - 11/05/98
Physical limits - 11/19/98
Credibility & belief - 12/03/98
Medieval futures II - 12/17/98

Postmodernism - 01/21/99
Fusion - 02/11/99
Melody determining form, I - 02/25/99
Melody determining form, II - 03/11/99
Relevance of music - 03/25/99
Tempo & rhythm - 04/15/99
Virtuous, virtuosity - 05/06/99
Musical economics - 05/20/99
Tempo II - 06/03/99
Religion & music - 06/17/99
Democracy of ideas - 07/08/99
Josquin in perspective - 07/22/99
Dufay - I. Orientation - 07/29/99
More textless music - 08/26/99
Ars Subtilior interpretations - 09/09/99
Ritual & transcendence - 09/23/99
Dufay - II. Chansons - 10/07/99
Dufay - III. Isorhythmic Motets - 10/21/99
Tempo III: Musical cosmology - 11/04/99
Melody determining form, III - 11/18/99
Ockeghem's Masses revisited - 12/02/99
Postmodern aesthetics & historicism - 12/16/99

Machaut: Musings on centrality - 01/20/00
Silence - 02/03/00
Feedback - 02/17/00
Music as art - 03/02/00
Religion II - 03/16/00
Technology - 03/30/00
Technology II: Digital sound - 04/27/00
Technology III: Internet distribution - 05/11/00
Machaut II: Poetry in music - 05/25/00
Anarchy & property - 06/15/00
Removing misdirection - 07/06/00
Interpretive space - 07/27/00
Rationality & relativism - 08/17/00
Machaut III: Innovation & continuity - 08/31/00
Music as collected - 09/14/00
Monteverdi - 09/28/00
Technology IV: Art on the web - 1 - 10/12/00
Technology IV: Art on the web - 2 - 10/19/00
Improvisation & composition - 11/02/00
Progress, goals, relevance - 11/16/00
Fusion II: Inevitability & chaos - 11/30/00
Technology postscript: Declining Literacy - 12/14/00

A new (musical) mainstream - 01/18/01
Vocal radicalism - 02/01/01
Deconstruction & expression - 02/15/01
End of writing, 1 - 03/01/01
Contemporary style - 03/15/01
End of writing, 2 - 03/29/01
Cycles & symmetries - 04/12/01
Music as a vice - 05/10/01
J.S. Bach - 05/24/01
Politics & music - 06/07/01
End of writing, 3 - 07/05/01
Influence & epochs - 07/19/01
The Age of Polyphony - 08/23/01
The Age of Polyphony - II - 09/06/01
Symmetry IV - 09/20/01
The Age of Polyphony - III. Early mass cycles - 10/04/01
Absolute music - 10/18/01
End of writing, 4 - 11/01/01
The Age of Polyphony - IV. Mass as symphony - 11/22/01
The Age of Polyphony - V. Performance issues - 12/06/01
The Age of Polyphony - VI. Assessment - 12/20/01

Counterpoint & style - 01/24/02
Counterpoint & style, II - 02/07/02
Counterpoint & style, III - 02/21/02
Fallacies & skepticism - 03/07/02
End of writing, 5 - 03/21/02
Polyphony as Western - 04/11/02
Indian music & melody - 05/02/02
The medieval mind - 05/16/02
Microtonality - 05/30/02
Transcendence II - 06/13/02
Creative forgetting - 06/27/02
Transcendence III: Exegesis - 07/11/02
Transcendence IV: Meaning - 08/29/02
Josquin and his contemporaries - 09/12/02
Obrecht as artist - 09/26/02
Obrecht's works - 10/03/02
More on Obrecht's works & relevance - 10/10/02
Josquin's works, part 1 - 10/24/02
Josquin's works, part 2 - 10/31/02
La Rue as doyen - 11/14/02
La Rue's style - 11/21/02
End of writing, 6 - 12/05/02
Untangling meaning from historicism - 12/19/02

Entertainment as paradigm - 01/23/03
Art/Entertainment bifurcation - 02/06/03
Art vs. Entertainment, II - 02/27/03
Food & consumable art - 03/13/03
Music as rite - 03/27/03
Rite - III - 04/10/03
Nature & music - 05/01/03
Understanding other music - 05/15/03
Embracing the present - 06/05/03
Art vs. Entertainment, III - 06/26/03
Meaning, III - 07/10/03
HIATUS - 07/11/03

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