Karl Burmeister

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Does successful rhetoric defeat critical thought?

Today I marched here in Albuquerque for science. I carried a sign which read, "Science is a method to dispel ignorance. Politics is a method to promote ignorance." I had been asked if politics...

23 April 2017 7,657 6 View

Could we explore the concept of "Failed Performance", i.e. what does it mean and what circumstances constitute it.?

In an idealized form any performative act is of its nature without fault. If that is so, why do so many have performance anxiety. Every such individual makes mistakes viv-a-vis the source...

01 September 2015 4,250 4 View

Where might I locate Adrian Shepherd / Cantilena score or performance materials for Arne's Symphonies 1-4?

I've looked everywhere. I suspect that since this work was done before we started using the internet for this sort of thing (storing music scores online), no one ever got around to it, the...

02 May 2015 3,822 13 View

Concerning research in emotional responses to music, has someone done a study correlating musical devices and mental states in performance?

In my submission "A Brief History of Modulation in Musical Rhetoric and Brahms' Harmonic Ambiguity ", I identify the need for a study to correlate musical devices and mental states. The first...

09 March 2015 6,787 11 View

Is there a 19th century musicological scholarship of Thomas Arne's "When Britain first at heaven's command"?

I have become intrigued by the musical devices employed in such a simple piece of music as Thomas Arne's closing chorus to Alfred "When Britain first at heaven's command"; My latest fascination...

17 February 2015 8,281 3 View