Compositional Flora and Fauna in Anton Webern’s song “Gleich und Gleich,” op. 12 no. 4
Author: Kurth, Richard Publication details: Vancouver International Song Institute
Mission: Possible
Author: Volpé Bligh, Elizabeth Publication details: Harp Column Weblink: https://harpcolumn.com
Sins and Fantasies
Artist: Mark McGregor (DMA’12) flute Recording details: Redshift Records, April 2014 Featured works: Dorothy Chang Wrath Jocelyn Morlock L Benton Roark Untitled Mark McGregor Le Dernier Repas De Monsieur Creosote Link Sins and Fantasies by Mark Takeshi McGregor
Cobalt
Composer: Jocelyn Morlock Ensembles: CBC Radio Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Pacific Baroque Orchestra, Windsor Symphony Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra, Duo Concertante. Recording details: CMC Centrediscs, 2014 Link
Advice—How Can I Get Better at Counting?
Author: Volpé Bligh, Elizabeth Publication details: Harp Column Weblink: https://www.harpcolumn.com
Rhythmic Play, Compositional Intent, and Communication in Rock Music
Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: Popular Music 33, no. 1 (2014): 69-90. Weblink: https://www.cambridge.org Abstract: This paper focuses on the use of rhythmic play in the compositional strategies of rock musicians. Such play is seen as both embodying an attitude on the part of the performer-composer in which music as pure structure tests one’s skill and imagination in […]
Von Bulow 2 / Mark Anderson
Artist: Mark Anderson piano Composer: Hans Von Bülow Recording details: Nimbus Records, 2014 Link
Transformation in Post-Tonal Music
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Oxford Handbooks Online in Music, ed. Alexander Rehding. New York: Oxford University Press Weblink: http://oxfordhandbooks.com Abstract: Post-tonal music (loosely, most Western art-music compositions since the turn of the 20th century) manifests many organizational techniques but not the processes of harmony and counterpoint that direct and articulate time in tonal music. Of the diverse […]
The Ethnomusicologist as Composer
Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: Music and Culture 31:31-44 (2014)
Meticulous Markings
Author: Volpé Bligh, Elizabeth Publication details: Harp Column Weblink: https://harpcolumn.com Abstract: When you rent—whether it’s a car, a beach house, or even a harp—you are at the mercy of the previous renters. What you have to work with can be less than ideal—beat up, messy, poorly maintained. The same is true when it comes to rental music. Rental […]