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The final installment of John Zorn's major series of new music theory, with Oren Ambarchi, Peter Blegvad, Annea Lockwood, Henry Threadgill and many more Initiat

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Initiated in 1997 and now in its eighth installment, John Zorn's acclaimed Arcana series is a major source of new music theory and practice in the 21st century.

An exploration of what self-referential compositions reveal about late medieval musical networks, linking choirboys to canons and performers to theorists.