Pierrot Lunaire: Persona, Voice, and the Fabric of Allusion

Author: Kurth, Richard Publication details: The Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg, edited by Jennifer Shaw and Joseph Auner, 120-34. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Weblink: https://cambridge.org Abstract: Since its 1912 composition and premiere, Schoenberg’s Dreimal sieben Gedichte aus Albert Girauds Pierrot lunaire (Three Times Seven Poems from Albert Giraud’s Pierrot lunaire), Op. 21 has […]

Immanence and Transcendence in Moses und Aron

Author: Kurth, Richard Publication details: The Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg, edited by Jennifer Shaw and Joseph Auner, 177-90. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Weblink: https://cambridge.org Abstract: Schoenberg’s opera Moses und Aron dramatizes – along philosophical, theological, and psychological lines – the predicament of the prophet, who grasps the essential unrepresentability (Unvorstellbarkeit) of […]

Reference and Mosaic Form in Peter-Jan Wagemanss Opera Legende

Reference and Mosaic Form in Peter-Jan Wagemanss Opera Legende

Author: Top, Edward Publication details: Reference and Mosaic Form in Peter-Jan Wagemanss Opera Legende, Deel 59, No. 2 (2009), pp. 157-184 (28 pages) Weblink: Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis (KVNM)

Expectation and Treatment of Dissonance in Wolfgang Rihm’s Third String Quartet

Author: Top, Edward Publication details: Dutch Journal of Music Theory 14, no. 3 (2009): 143-54. Weblink: https://lup.be Abstract: In his Third String Quartet, as in many of his works, composer Wolfgang Rihm demonstrates his fascination with the unexpected. It appears that in order for expectation to be thwarted, a passionate, though highly sophisticated level of […]

Gestures and Pathways in György Kurtág’s Kafka Fragments, op. 24

Author: Kurth, Richard Publication details: School of Music, University of Washington, 16 January 2009

Archivists meet Artists: InterPARES Insights into Authenticity

Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Art, Conservation, and Authenticities: Material, Concept, Context, ed. Erma Hermens and Tina Fiske, 227-234. London: Archetype Publications Weblink: http://www.interpares.org

‘Yŏngdong Nongak’: Mountains, Music, and the SamulNori Canon

Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: Acta Koreana 12.1:1-26 (2009) Weblink: www.earticle.net

A Transformational Space Structuring the Counterpoint in Adès’s “Auf dem Wasser zu singen”

Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Music Theory Online 15/1 Weblink: http://www.mtosmt.org Abstract: The third movement of Thomas Adès’s string quartet Arcadiana features a complex, free textural counterpoint that seems resistant to the transformational analysis of the common sort that focuses, as does motivic analysis, on a small family of structured objects. However, by choosing a suitable space of […]

Review of Michael Cherlin, Schoenberg’s Musical Imagination

Author: Kurth, Richard Publications detail: Journal of the American Musicological Society 62/1: 243-252 Weblink: http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca/stable/10.1525/jams.2009.62.1.243

Local polymetric structures in Elliott Carter’s 90+ for piano (1994)

Author: Poudrier, Ève Publication details: Modernist legacy: Essays on new music, edited by Björn Heile, Aldershot, 205-223. England: Ashgate, 2009. Weblink: https://taylorfrancis.com Abstract: At the heart of early musical modernism was a desire to face the challenges of a rapidly changing way of life brought about by scientific discoveries, technological advances and industrialization with radically new forms […]