Pavan and Galliard

Consort Music

Small ensembles known as consorts or English consorts were the predominant mode of instrumental ensemble music making in the 16th and 17th century England.   An ensemble of like instruments, for example viols or lutes, was…

Welcome to Nix Notions, a blog of ideas.  You will find new posts and older posts from a Tumblr blog.  

Nix Picks: The Same Sea, Amos Oz  translated from the Hebrew by 

Nicholas De Lange.  Pub. 1999 in Hebrew, translation 2001

This dreamy novel switches between free verse and prose in short one page vignettes.  The cast, a father, son…

Nix Picks: Garner, Kirstin Allis 
A beautifully written book based in a south central New Hampshire town. The author 
used the two histories of Temple, New Hampshire as templates. Temple, NH was the hometown of my best friend, and musical…

Nix Picks: Summer Reading

I’m finally getting around to reading “The Cello Suites” by Eric Siblin.  A former Pop Music Critic for the Montreal Gazette and unschooled in classical music, Eric threw himself into historical research with a journalist’s enthusiasm…

     Years ago I left academic and institutional teaching and set up my private lesson studio so that I would have the flexibility to work on my writing and performance career.  Between the private lessons, and free-lance performing/touring (a whole separate…

Welcome to the new Michael Nix Tumblr blog.  I will be addressing topics musical and otherwise.  You can follow here at Tumblr, from the blog page on my website at www.NixWorks.com, and on Facebook.  I’ll welcome your feedback and…