August Wilson and Musicology

Ryan Raul Bañagale spends part of Martin Luther King Day thinking about the work of August Wilson, fictionalized music history, its musicological potential.

Zoe Lang’s Guest Blog: Laying Down the Ground Rules

Kate van Orden, the Journal of the American Musicological Society, and the asterisk.

We’re back and we’ve brought piano trios.

While playing with Mozart’s piano trio fragments, Ryan Raul Bañagale, struck upon a “new” Mozart piano trio…

A little old-school new school for the new-school old school

Ryan Raul Bañagale was chatting with a friend from school about topical analysis yesterday and that reminded him of an large-scale analysis he once did on the “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” variations (K 265) – arguably the most famous of Mozart’s independent variation sets for the piano. Here it is, amusicology style (aka brief and to the point):