Music and Meaning and More

Music and Meaning and More

The question of music’s meaning has had a long and contentious history. Some say that music has no meaning other than itself, that the meaning of a piece of music, from the simplest song to the most complex symphony or opera, is simply the notes the composer wrote in...
MOMENTMichael Hogan: “Spring”

MOMENT
Michael Hogan: “Spring”

An interesting and useful way into the pleasures of poetry, MOMENT©, was developed by my friend Michael Hogan, himself a widely published poet. MOMENT stands for the following dimensions of a poem: moment, opposition, movement, evocation, notation, and tension....