Week 50 - Ars Nova: 1300-1400
1. Stuff done this week - Read up on music theory: Scales and the Tonal System. - Read Chapter 6 from A History of Western Music by Burkholder et al. (2014). - Here a clip of me an Crimson Inc. performing for Sofar Amsterdam:  Crimson Inc. - The day we got lost 2. Listening done this week Andrew Bird - So Much Wine This is Andrew Bird's cover of a song written by The Handsome Family 's Brett and Rennie Sparks. Bird is a an accomplished violinist and has made an album featuring only cover versions of the work of The Handsome Family . I love Bird's minimalist arrangement and I think it does create more unity with the lyrics of the song. It must convey the sadness and loneliness of two lovers being separated by the madness of alcohol addiction. The text is graphic and leaves nothing to the imagination, adding to the sense that this miniature drama is about two simple, working class people: it is Joe Bloggs speaking to us. T...