Paula Higgins, “Josquin and the Dormouse: Aesthetic Excess, Masculinity, and Homoeroticism in the Reception of Planxit autem David” John Howland, “Nobrow Pop in the New Millennium?: Nico Muhly and Post-2000 Chamber Pop” Jessica Wood, “An Old World Instrument for Cold War Diplomacy: The Touring Harpsichord in 1950s Asia”Įlaine Kelly, “Late Beethoven and Late Socialism in the German Democratic Republic” Rachel Cowgill, “Filling the Void: Theosophy, Modernity, and the Rituals of Armistice Day in the Reception of John Foulds’s A World Requiem” British composers seem not to have needed that advice, since we’re now told that they are twice as likely to have written music with meteorological themes than their foreign counterparts.Īlex Ross retails the “top ten titles” for papers at this fall’s Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society:įrancesco Dalla Vecchia, “Sopranos Gone Wild: Flashing in Seventeenth-Century Venetian Opera”Ĭraig Monson, “‘How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?’ - ‘They Would Claw Each Other’s Flesh If They Could’: Conflicting Conformities in Convent Music”ĭavid Kasunic, “Beethoven in the Background: Music and Fine Dining in Nineteenth-Century France”Īmanda Eubanks Winkler, “High School Musicals: Understanding Seventeenth-Century English Pedagogical Masques” He thought the infinite varieties of English weather worth noticing and describing in detail and with subtlety. ![]() Lewis wrote somewhere else that a person who lives in England had better learn not to speak of the sky as merely grey but to distinguish between shades of grey. Lewis, That Hideous Strength, Chapter 5 “Elasticity” (1946) “Any child loves rain if allowed to go out and paddle about in it.” “That’s because the grown-ups kept you in,” said Camilla. “I’m sure I hated wet days as a child,” said Jane. Noticed it on a snowy day? The grown-ups are all going about with long faces, but look at the children – and the dogs? They know what snow’s made for.” You learn the art of disliking it as you grow up. “Everyone begins as a child by liking Weather. “It’s the other way around,” said Denniston. “I don’t think I should ever learn to like rain and snow.” ![]() It’s a useful taste if one lives in England.” ![]() Not this or that kind of weather, but just Weather. “That’s why Camilla and I got married, ” said Denniston as they drove off. Jane said she’d never heard of anyone liking fogs before but she didn’t mind trying. “Don’t you like a rather foggy day in a wood in autumn? You’ll find we shall be perfectly warm sitting in the car.”
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