From “The Poetry of Thought”, George Steiner
We do speak about music. The verbal analysis of a musical score can, to a certain extent, elucidate its formal structure, its technical components and instrumentation. But where it is…
Tag: the impossibility of writing about music
Music For Another World. Ed. Mark Harding. SF Site review, 2011
This is a rather grumpy review. I found the writing in this anthology by and large ponderous and forced, too self-consciously “literary.” I think that is pretty clear from the…
Séamus Sweeney 