Andrew Schartmann's Musical Tidbits

Musical Tidbits is a series of articles written by Andrew Schartmann and launched on 1 January 2013, which delves into the musical details of particular works.

A selection of articles about Andrew Schartmann's Musical Tidbits

Common Ground - Andrew Schartmann's book 'Koji Kondo's Super Mario Bros Soundtrack' impresses Keith Bramich

Andrew Schartmann's Musical Tidbits - Modulation as a Rate of Change - On the Peasant-Bear Vignette from Stravinsky's Petrouchka

Andrew Schartmann's Musical Tidbits - Pop Music and the Classical Idiom. Part IV: Waltzing with Super Mario

Andrew Schartmann's Musical Tidbits - Pop Music and the Classical Idiom. Part III: Classical Music and its 8-bit Suit

Andrew Schartmann's Musical Tidbits - Pop Music and the Classical Idiom. Part II: Creative Quotations

Andrew Schartmann's Musical Tidbits - Pop Music and the Classical Idiom. Part I: Pachelbel Lives

Andrew Schartmann's Musical Tidbits - The Anatomy of Music. Part VI: Small Ternary Form

Andrew Schartmann's Musical Tidbits - The Anatomy of Music. Part V: Some Notes on Composition

Andrew Schartmann's Musical Tidbits - The Anatomy of Music. Part IV: Hybrid Themes

Andrew Schartmann's Musical Tidbits - The Anatomy of Music. Part III: Analysis in Practice

Andrew Schartmann's Musical Tidbits - The Anatomy of Music. Part II: The Period

Andrew Schartmann's Musical Tidbits - The Anatomy of Music. Part I: The Sentence

Andrew Schartmann's Musical Tidbits - The 'Physics' of Music. On Musical Momentum and its Compositional Implications

Andrew Schartmann's Musical Tidbits - Two tales of the Rising Sun. On Depicting Nature in Music

Andrew Schartmann's Musical Tidbits - A Change of Face. 'Character Development' in Mozart's Symphony in G minor, K 183

Andrew Schartmann's Musical Tidbits - Listening with New Ears. A Listening Strategy for Webern's String Trio

Andrew Schartmann's Musical Tidbits - An Exercise in Self-Constraint. Non-conventional Harmony in Poulenc's Sonata for Flute and Piano

Andrew Schartmann's Musical Tidbits - From Pedantry to Masterwork. A Note on Chopin's Étude in C major, Op 10, No 1

Andrew Schartmann's Musical Tidbits - Servant to no one. In the first of an occasional series, Andrew Schartmann examines Beethoven's Op 2 No 2 and the rise of the romantic artist