
Editor’s Note: Ekstasis in Music Criticism and Analysis
The Ateneo de Manila University has always prided itself in how its curricula (and extra-curriculars) are geared towards holistic...


Intimacy and Reflection: The Parallelisms of Friedrich and Chopin’s Masterpieces
Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich Defining a stylistic archetype of the Romantic period has been found to be...


Romanticism: Musical Emotion Embodied in the Visual Emotion
"Casa de Locos,” or “The Madhouse.” Romanticism was a movement that reacted towards the scientific rationalization of nature. Despite...

Revolutionizing Harmony through Baroque Painting and Music
Vocazione di San Matteo (“The Calling of Saint Matthew”), a painting by Baroque artist Michaelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, depicts the...


The Beginning of Farewell: Saying Goodbye Through Painting and Music
Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer born in Alsergrund, Vienna on January 31, 1797 during the early Romantic era of music. His...


The Expression of Baroque-ness in Music and Beyond
On January 31, 2018, ten-year-old Matthew Villagomez performed a couple of Baroque pieces on the piano for Sir Jonathan Coo’s class on...


Vivan Las Humanidades: The 2017 Music Literature Minor Graduates
As the school year draws to a close, we take time to congratulate the graduates of the Music Literature Minor program of the School of...

No Small Roles With Kayla Acosta
One of a college student’s greatest questions in life is “what am I really going to do after graduation?” It is a question that both...

Swinging to a Passion's Beat
Music has the ability to make an individual feel many things; it has that underlying influence on the values we uphold, and the decisions...

The Man that is EJ Macabenta
The Ateneo has produced outstanding individuals who are potent in multiple fields. The diversity of the Ateneo’s curriculum has produced...