A wolf interval occurs in the circle of fifths in certain temperament schemes. It is dissonant in the face of harmony. It is the interval whose imperfection makes the other fifths perfect. Tradition holds that its discord sounds like a wolf howling.
Editorial Introduction - Volume 5
Welcome to the fifth issue of The Wolf Interval: A Journal of Student Writing at Juilliard. The purpose of this journal is to showcase the writing of Juilliard students and, where appropriate, to provide models for other writers to follow.
The British poet Matthew Arnold characterized true culture as the source of “sweetness and light,” pleasure and illumination, and it is our hope that readers find both within these pages.
Publications are always a community effort, and we thank our community: the student contributors, first of all, and our colleagues in Liberal Arts and Music History who recommended them. Thanks to the administration for its encouragement and material support, and to Rafael Tapia for his guidance through the printing process.
I thank Chelsea Feltman, Cynthia Eytina, and Brian Bahe for their effort in organizing these materials and putting together the manuscript itself. They are the sine qua non of this annual project.
We hope The Wolf Interval will nourish the bloom of student writing already in progress at Juilliard. Feedback and inquiries welcome. Please send them to writing.center@juilliard.edu
As Little Red Riding Hood once said of her encounter with the Wolf in Into the Woods: “I know things now, many valuable things, that I hadn't known before.” May our encounters with the wolf be just as enlightening.
Anthony Lioi
Coyote-in-Chief
Spring 2016