The Fredösphere

Go to Kyle Gann's blog and hear a complete recording of his new choral work My father moved through dooms of love.  He even let's you download the score -- very generous for those of us who want to know how he voiced the spooky chord that opens the piece.

Gann's choral writing intrigues me because I suspect he belongs on the dance side of the Dance-Chant Continuum.  Also in the topic of moods in music, Scott Spiegelberg has been blogging up a storm on musical preference relating to personality type (confirming the absence of body piercing among fans of My Fair Lady) and listening habits relating to cognitive style.  There are surveys to fill out, if you like that sort of thing (as I do).

More theorizing/categorizing that caught my eye:  I'm a skeptic and a sucker when it comes to theories of historical cycles, so naturally I enjoyed Robert Gable's link to the Fourth Turning Generational Theories and his attempt to place Ives and Copland in the cycle it describes.