ACADEMIC ARTICLES

February 20, 2017 Steve Hackett's electric guitar solo in "Firth of Fifth" from the Genesis album Selling England By The Pound (SEBTP),...

June 6, 2016 Introduction: Klaatu is a Canadian progressive rock/pop trio group from Toronto that formed in 1973. The band featured John...

April 14, 2016 "As much as the story of Klaatu revolves around utopian opportunity and musical integrity, it is also a tale of victor and...

How Emerson Changed The Role Of The Keyboardist Through Explicit Stage Presence and Performance September 10, 2015 In the infancy of Rock...

How Rush's "Subdivisions" Divided More Than Just Time August 11, 2015 Updated May 17, 2016 In the fall of 2014, I came across the article...

May 4, 2015 Introduction: Form & Section Structure Form At first hearing, this piece of music came off as a symphonic poem, as it had the...

April 7, 2014 As the media continues its uprising and spectacle is outshining performance, it is coming quite apparent that the music...

March 21, 2014 The movie Wall-E was produced in 2008 by Walt Disney Pixar Animation Studios. The story essentially takes place in the...

January 29, 2014 Maynard Soloman's article "Franz Schubert and the Peacocks of Benvenuto Cellini" discusses the possibility of Schubert...

January 22, 2014 The Baroque era is often referred to as “The Long 17th Century” as it musically spans from 1600-1750. The word Baroque...

December 5, 2013 William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet has been the inspiration for works by a number of composers throughout the years....

November 19, 2013 On October 23rd 2013 around 6:36pm, the walls of the Roy Thomson Hall were quivering under the ominous tones of one of...

March 25, 2013 On January 16th 2013 around 8:36pm, the walls of the Roy Thompson Hall were bustling under the sweet vibrations of one of...

March 5, 2013 Guiseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner are both excellent examples of Italian and German opera composers. Together, their operas...

January 29, 2013 The finale to Mozart’s Symphony No. 41 in C major (a.k.a. “Jupiter”) is an excellent representation of a sonata-allegro...

April 1, 2012 Recently I had the privilege of attending a classic rock tribute band known as Comfortably Numb: Canada’s Pink Floyd Show....

December 1, 2011 Cymatics: Everybody feels the effects of it, but very few understand the source. One of the interesting things about...

It has often been found that colour compliments music and vice versa. There is evidence of this ideology stemming from the 15th century...