Not Another Music History Cliché!

Debunking myths and calling out lazy writing in published articles about classical music.

Monday, May 30, 2016

Is this the ugliest piece ever written?

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"Most musicologists would argue that..." is a Bat Signal for this blog. Okay, so it did take UCLA musicologist Robert Fink to brin...
Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Science Proves Your Favorite Music is the Best

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Instead of examining a single article for this post, I'm going to discuss a trend: using science to imply that classical music better th...
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Sunday, May 22, 2016

Buxtehude is not "a fictitious composer"

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I'm preparing a longer post on bad reporting of scientific studies involving music, but I came across this in my Facebook feed and could...
Friday, May 20, 2016

Beethoven's Humanity vs. Mozart's Divinity

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In my previous post , I looked at an article written by someone who probably does not have much experience covering classical music (at leas...
Monday, May 16, 2016

Can this "libretto" prove Salieri killed Mozart?

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No. It can't. That's ridiculous. Yet Jess Staufenberg of The Independent  wants us to think it can. Antonio Salieri is now best kn...
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Linda has a PhD in musicology from UC Santa Barbara, specializing in reception history.

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