Thomas Cable considers the influence of Wimsatt and Beardsley's "The Concept of Meter" (1959) from a broadly ontological perspective. The authors took issue with structural linguistics for not being abstract enough when discussing poetic meter and with “temporal” (including “musical”) approaches for imposing a score extraneous to the text. What these methods had in common was attention to an individual performance that might be plausible but was something different from the enduring text from which other performances might derive; hence their article's subtitle, “An Exercise in Abstraction.” 

Let me present a backhanded insult about Alex Ross. (Which is to say, a compliment.) Here's the thing that pisses me off about the guy.

A few weeks ago the august and (by some accounts) curmudgeonly classical music critic Alan Rich

One of the items I have seen most frequently on this year’s “best-of-the-decade” lists is the iPod. Mp3 players are so ubiquitous now it’s hard to believe they have only been around for 9 years.