From the Spring 2024 Musical Times, available now

Articles

Ronald Broude & Mary Cyr: ‘The musical work before the work concept, or the 18th-century acceptance of musical compositions as works’

Brian Newbould: ‘Dissonance in tonal music 1: purpose and principles’

Arnold Whittall: ‘2024 and all what? Forward to basics’

Stephen Arthur Allen: ‘Fanfares, flourishes & tattoos: narratives in Herbert Howells’s Pageantry (1937) and Three figures (1960) for brass band’

Lionel Pike: ‘Cambridge puzzles? Howells at Evensong’

and reviews by Richard Langham Smith and Andrew Thomson of

Étienne Jardin: Exposer la musique: Le festival du Trocadéro (Paris 1878)
Clair Rowden: Opera and parody in Paris, 1860–1900
Fiona Maddocks: Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in exile