The Avid Listener  *  Blog Essays

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The Avid Listener

The Avid Listener 
a music blog hosted by W. W. Norton

• ​Avid Listening
• Spiritual Listening
• Structural Listening
• Distracted Listening
• Authenticity and Interpretation
• Sweet Torment over Four Centuries
• Adapting Flutes: Authenticity, Ingenuity, and Accessibility
• Intentional Inauthenticity: Performing Disabled Bodies, Disabled Bodies performing
• Bespoke Opera: Handel, Fach, and Gender
• Bromantic Singing: Madrigals and Authenticity

Blog Essays

• Monteverdi at 450: Don't Believe the Hype
• Not Another Musical History Cliché - April 10, 2017

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