I'm currently reading a load of C. S. Lewis (see also C. S. Lewis on AI art). Here are some bits I wanted to save from The Discarded Image, which is about the medieval understanding of the universe. Three walks at night First walk. Replace abstract distance by height, and| Lucy Keer
I'm still really enjoying partimento practice (an 18th century teaching method for musical composition – see my newsletter post for more than you want to know about it). The further I get into it, the more I appreciate how clever it is. I've been trying to understand what makes it so| Lucy Keer
I'm starting to come out of my 18th century music obsession (see here for an infodump on what that was about) but I wanted to get one more notebook post in on a nice paper I found by Robert Gjerdingen that has some funny stuff about Rousseau. Partimento, que me| Lucy Keer
An infodump on 18th century musical pattern languages, which is apparently what I'm interested in now, why is my brain like this| bucketoverflow.substack.com