Contemporary music analysts have generally downplayed the relevance of composer intent, a dismissal which ignores the potential for an enhanced expressive context afforded by composers’ own assessments and also contributes to the silencing of already othered voices, such as in the case of queer and trans composers. Allowing the trans composer a…[Read more]

Composer intent has generally been downplayed by contemporary music analysts, often
being regarded as an example of an intentional fallacy at best and misleading at worst. This analysis
of Grey Grant’s choral work posits that such a dismissal not only ignores the potential for an enhanced
expressive context afforded by composers’ own ass…[Read more]