A new book came out in my field: analyses of art songs written by twentieth century Spanish composers based on Spanish poetry. I wish I liked it more. The problem is that it's just bland and fails to engage with any intellectual interests of mine in a way that resonates with me.
Writing about music is difficult. Verbal descriptions of music can easily fall flat, if nothing is really at stake at the level of ideas. They are just... descriptions. But visual descriptions can evoke images, and musical description evokes absolutely nothing, in many cases.
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