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Edward Green

Composer, Musicologist, Aesthetic Realism Associate

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    • Aesthetic Realism and Music: Technique and Beauty
      • Rhythm Contradicts Contempt: Aesthetic Realism and The Rite of Spring
      • Greatness in Music and Chopin’s Waltz in Ab, Op. 69
      • Aesthetic Realism: A New Foundation for Interdisciplinary Musicology
      • Sincerity in Music: Sergei Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony
      • Music and the Victorian Mind: The Musical Aesthetics of the Rev. H. R. Haweis
      • The Technique of Chromatic Completion in Haydn’s Late Masses
      • Harmony and the Oneness of Opposites
      • Music From China and the Universal Criterion for Beauty
    • The Lives and Work of Great Musicians
      • How Much Should a Man Care for Besides Himself? On Glenn Gould, Men and Myself
      • “Aesthetic Realism Explains the Beauty of Jazz and of Duke Ellington: A Talk by Edward Green”
      • Berlioz and the Power Men & Women Want Most
      • What Does It Mean to Be a Real Friend?
      • Why Are Men & Women Troubled about Ambition and Importance?
      • What Will Have a Man Really Sure of Himself?
    • Music, Literature & Life
      • Is Good Will Our Greatest Power?, Aesthetic Realism and Samuel Richardson’s ‘Clarissa’
      • The Mind of Adolf Hitler: A Study in the Unconscious Appeal of Contempt
      • Contempt: the Cause of Insanity—Eli Siegel’s Discovery & Two African Short Stories
      • How Can a Man Have True Integrity?
    • Conference Papers

Articles about Edward Green’s Music

“A Composer Looks at Music, Ethics, and Aesthetics: An Interview with Edward Green”—published in ICONI

“…As Aesthetic Realism sees it, it’s the permanent aesthetics of the world — its structure of opposites — which music aims to express and embody. It’s true whatever the style of the music is. The title of an important essay Eli Siegel wrote on the subject is “Music Tells What the World Is Like….” read more


Edward Green’s Concerto in C and the Poetry of Eli Siegel.    

by Paul Neebe and Brandon Walsh.   
Journal of the International Trumpet Guild, June 2012


“Choral Works by Edward Green”
— by Dennis Tucker (The American Organist)

“As these works soar and are yet precise, as they are gentle and at the same time strong, as they assert and then yield in controlled decrescendos, we feel more at one with the world itself, which contains the grandest examples of opposites, such as in its mighty oceans and gentle morning breezes…” read more


“Edward Green’s Symphony for Guitars and Flutes”
— by Brent Simpson (Classical Guitar)

“How symphonic can a guitar ensemble sound? Edward Green, an American composer who is on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music, asked that question, and the result was his Chamber Symphony for an ensemble of eight guitars, flute, and two alto flutes…” read more

Faculty, Aesthetic Realism Foundation

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Professor Emeritus, Manhattan School of Music

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