YESTERDAY BTINTERNET SLANDERED AND BLOCKED THE MONITOR YET AGAIN.

25 February—Today’s brief Daily Disquisition was produced in its entirety on Beowulf, the young desktop computer. The expectation (hope?) is that you’ll receive—or have received—the direct link as in the past. Better than in the past.

To celebrate The Monitor’s hard-fought victory over the forces of digital disruption, then, here are two magnificent keyboard reductions of John Philip Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever,” first for piano, then for harpsichord.

Celebrate and enjoy . . .