Category: Music

John Renbourn, a Renaissance dance tune, and (modified) Heath Robinson art.

Another medieval/modern hybrid.

GG, MM and BB venture into Eric Johnson territory.

Piccio Dal Pozzo is probably the outstanding Italian example of the Canterbury school of prog rock. This is from their 1976 debut.

I’ve mentioned Kapustin before. Here’s some more of his music.

This color-coded visual aid might make it a little easier to follow the counterpoint in Nancarrow’s “12-voice canon in which the 12 tempos are proportional to the pitches of the notes of a chromatic scale.”

A song about a drummer, without drums. This was the first tune I heard by Steeleye Span, and it is still one of my favorites.

Homage to Stravinsky, transcribed for baroque and folk instruments by yet another bunch of crazy Finns.

Your daily dystopia, courtesy of the band named for drops of nail polish on a piano.

Griffes was potentially a Great American Composer, but he died far too young.

The band once known as “Happy Cancer” never had much commercial potential. So what?

Italian prog rock from 1976, with flutes and mellotrons.

If you don’t hear Steve Cropper’s guitar, it’s because he’s playing a keyboard on this one.

Something I would not have expected from Richard Thompson.

The lyrics are from the medieval Carmina Burana. The music is somewhat more recent.

It’s impossible to be too paranoid — true in 1973, and in 2026.

The Cuban composer and guitarist Leo Brouwer composed much music for classical guitar of varying degrees of listenability. These include his Beatlerianas, such as this.

Someday we’ll get there ….

Jehan Alain: “When the Christian soul no longer finds new words in its distress to implore God’s mercy, it repeats incessantly the same invocation with a vehement faith. Reason has reached its limits. Alone, faith pursues its ascension.”

Fans of the band Renaissance might recognize this.