...Emilio Audissino The article mobilizes the concepts of “canon” and “canonization” to discuss John Williams’s legacy. It sets the scene by providing an overview of the most noted formulations of “canon”—from Joseph Kerman’s 1983 articulation to the most recent revisions by Mark Everist and William...

... and the Grand Inquisitor, I explore how aspects of the scene's musical unfolding foreground tensions between an increasingly prominent operatic past and an imagined operatic future. Ultimately, I argue that the opera's reception was saturated with concerns about an emerging phenomenon of “canonic listening...

... comments and suggestions. © 2010 by the Regents of the University of California 2010 amateurism correspondence canon self-construction bourgeoisie DAVID GRAMIT Letters of a German Amateur Everyday Extraordinary: Music in the Letters of a German Amateur, 1803 08 DAVID GRAMIT A. W. Müller...