Essays About Emerging Scholar

Music Shorthand, or How To Capture Sound circa 1833

By Mackenzie Pierce Sound decays. Once its vibrations drop below the audible capacity of the human ear, it survives only as memory, trace, or reproduction. The history of this physical reality, however, leads in no singular direction: today it takes me to France in 1833, where… Read More

Why You Really Can Forge a Musical Work

by Frederick Reece The concept of authorship casts two long shadows across western creative culture: plagiarism and forgery. In the realm of music history, the first of these twin transgressions against the author will likely be rather familiar. From Franz von Walsegg’s appropriation of Mozart’s Requiem in the 1790s… Read More