“We're living in a time when pretty much anything can happen in the music world. There are a lot of musical languages in which people work. When I think of common practice I think back to the time I was studying the flute, where I learned that in the Baroque period many things were not notated, since they were understood - that was because of common practice.” PeopleThinkingWorldLanguageCommonStudyMusicalAnything Can HappenBaroque Author:Jennifer Higdon
“As a consequence, I think of the idea of 'common practice' at any time as something that can only be seen by looking backwards. Maybe around the turn of the 20th century there might have been some kind of common practice but now it looks to me like the boundaries have come down.” ThinkingKindCommonConsequenceBoundariesLooking BackBackwards20th Century Author:Jennifer Higdon
