Recommended Articles
by Don Robertson
About Positive Music
Don Robertson wrote About Positive Music to be the feature article on the DoveSong.com website that he and his wife, Mary Ellen, launched in March of that year. The article presents his work of thirty years on the nature of the effects that musc can have, either positive or negative. The experiments of researcher Dorothy Retallack, who played different kinds of music to plants and watched the effects that the music had on the plants, are clearly detailed.
Music in the 20th Century
Music in the 20th Century is a series of five articles from Don Robertson’s 2005 book Music Through the Centuries. The five articles are important documents that detail major events in 20th-century music:
- The destruction of classical music through discordant harmony and noise
- How great 20th-century composers who refused to bow to discord were treated by discordant inteligensia
- The important introduction of North Indian classical music in the Western world
- Minimalism and the return to tonality
- New-age music
Classical Music in the 21st Century
At the very beginning of the 21st century, the year 2000, Don Robertson wrote the definitive article defining the path that music has taken from the Romantic Era of the 19th century, through the destructive 20th century, and on to what the 21st-century classical music will be.
The Genesis of New-Age Music
The important article that in 2005 for the very first time defined exactly the path that the new-age-music genre took from its inception with the release of the first-ever new-age album of music (Don Robertson’s 1969 album Dawn) through its development to a point where the genre was hijacked by major record labels, and it became something other than what it had been.
The Seeds of the Renaissance
An important article that explanes how the music of the 16th-century European Renaissance evolved from the advanced islamic civilization called Al-Andalus (modern Spain and Portugal).