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Time Signatures: A Series on Music

Photo of a record shop

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Writing from multiple languages and genres that examines the place of music in our lives.

A row of violins

Photo by Umutcan Günüç on Unsplash

Strands

By Verena Rossbacher

He laid the hairs out in front of him on the kitchen table, stretched out straight and flat next to each other like the strings of an instrument.

Translated from German by Anne Posten

A row of building windows facing another row of windows in front of it

Photo by Sabri Tuzcu on Unsplash

Parentheses

By Felipe Franco Munhoz

The vinyl record turns three thousand four hundred and fifty-six degrees. I counted.

Translated from Portuguese by Alison Entrekin

Score of Anold Schoenberg's Transfigured Night

Outside Music

By Hernán Bravo Varela

Anything audible can be remembered.

Translated from Spanish by Robin Myers

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Photo by Patrick Schneider on Unsplash

Inside “Outside Music”

By Eric M. B. Becker

A playlist for Hernán Bravo Varela’s eulogy for his father and the music that he loved

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