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Meditations on Objective Aesthetics in World Music
Author: Tenzer, Michael Publications details: Ethnomusicology 59, no. 1 (2015): 1-30. Weblink: https://music.ubc.ca Abstract: This essay opens a dialogue between ethnomusicology and neo- Darwinism as promulgated by biologist Richard Dawkins and others. The first half engages quantum physicist David Deutsch’s much-discussed The Beginning of Infinity (2011), which integrates neo-Darwinism with the epistemology of objective knowledge developed […]
Early Voices in SamulNori’s Historical Record
Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: SamulNori: Korean Percussion for a Contemporary World, by Keith Howard, 76-86. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. Weblink: https://routledge.com Abstract: SamulNori is a percussion quartet which has given rise to a genre, of the same name, that is arguably Korea’s most successful ’traditional’ music of recent times. Today, there are dozens of amateur and […]
Thesaurus litaniarium: The Symbolism and Practice of Musical Litanies in Counter-Reformation Germany
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: Early Music History 34 (2015): 45-95. Weblink: https://cambridge.org Abstract: A venerable form of petitionary prayer, the litany emerged as a key aural expression of Counter-Reformation Catholicism around the turn of the seventeenth century, particularly in the confessionally contested borderlands of the Holy Roman Empire. Its explicit projection of the dogma of sanctoral […]
Mid-Winter Songs / Un Soir de Neige
Ensemble: Phoenix Chamber Choir, Graeme Langager director Artists: Terence Dawson piano, Michael Murray organ Recording details: Independent, December 2014 Featured composers: Matthew Emery, Graeme Langager Link
Review of James Kennaway, Bad Vibrations: The History of the Idea of Music as a Cause of Disease
Author: Konoval, Brandon Publication details: Isis 105, no. 4 (December 2014): 829-830. Weblink: https://jstor.org
Summer Evening
Ensemble: Alan Matheson & Wade Mikkola Duo Artists: Alan Matheson cornet and piano Wade Mikkola bass Recording details: Atro Mikkola, 2014 Composer: Oskar Merikanto Link
Beyond Shadows
Artists: The Nu:BC Collective (Paolo Bortolussi flute, alto flute, conductor; Eric Wilson cello; Corey Hamm piano) Recording details: Redshift Records, October 2014 Featured work: Dorothy Chang Beyond Shadows Link Beyond Shadows by The Nu:BC Collective
PEP (Piano and Erhu Project) – Vol. 1
Ensemble: PEP (Piano and Erhu Project) Artists: Corey Hamm piano, Nicole Ge Li erhu Recording Details: Redshift Records, 2014 Featured works: Roydon Tse Blues n’ Grooves Jared Miller Captive Jocelyn Morlock Verdigris John Oliver Eternity Gaze Edward Top Along the Riverrun Link PEP (Piano and Erhu Project) Vol. 1 by Corey Hamm, piano; Nicole Ge Li, erhu […]
Six Departures
Ensemble: Trio Verlaine Artists: Lorna McGhee flute, David Harding viola, Heidi Krutzen harp Recording details: Ravello Records, 2014 Link PARMA Recordings · SIX DEPARTURES – Trio Verlaine
Bartók’s Grooves: Metrical Processes in the Fourth String Quartet
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Bartók’s String Quartets: Tradition and Legacy, edited by Harald Krebs and Daniel Biro, 81-107. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014 Weblink: http://www.oupcanada.com Abstract: Many passages in Bela Bartók’s string quartets resemble the repeated pattern, or grooves, of popular and world music. The fourth quartet, for instance, exposes extended periodicities near the beginning of […]