Category Archives: Musicology

The Boring Part Comes Before the Fun Part

Posted on May 4, 2018 by Micah Everett

Our society’s obsession with fun is, I fear, one of our most harmful collective traits at the present moment. We see this in the workplace, where positions in challenging yet necessary and well-compensated trades go unfilled. We see this in … Continue reading →

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“From the Vault:” A Paper on Beethoven’s Use of Trombones in the Fifth Symphony

Posted on February 18, 2016 by Micah Everett

This week’s post is a paper that I wrote twelve years ago for a seminar on Beethoven I took during doctoral school. As a graduate student my practice when taking musicology courses was to whenever possible choose research topics that … Continue reading →

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