“Some of the shared concepts – even words that psychoanalysis and musicians use – such as conflict, ambiguity, silences, dissonance, resolution or not, working through, is in the Mozart you’ve heard. What you hear in the very opening four measures was worked through this entire sonata, it was thematic. If we play the whole sonata, … Continue reading Episode 131: ‘Music Sounds the Way Emotion Feels’: from the Piano to the Couch with Julie Nagel, PhD (Dexter, Michigan)