Aesthetic engagement is a term that has come into increasing prominence in aesthetic discourse. It identifies an understanding of aesthetic experience, appreciation, and value characterized by active participation in the perceptual process and by the continuity and reciprocity of the central factors in aesthetic appreciation. The concept of…[Read more]

Celestina is linked to Terenceʼs works since its origins: not only did contemporary readers identify it as a «terentian» work, but its earliest illustrated editions are indebted to the Strasbourg: Johannes Grüninger, 1496 edition of Terence’s Comoediae. Going back to the manuscript models of the incunabula editions of Terence, in this artic…[Read more]

This article addresses the analytical fault line between Schenkerian and Salzerian approaches to tonal jazz through an analysis of a Brad Mehldau improvisation on “All the Things You Are.” Special attention is given to the usage of common tones, which often work against the resolving tendencies of unstable chord tones but create their own lar…[Read more]

Review of chapter 6 of ‘The New College Classroom.’

Cathy N. Davidson & Christina Katopodis, The New College Classroom. Harvard University Press, 2022. Pp. ix, 303. ISBN 9780674249954.