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Constructing Transformational Signification: Gesture and Agency in Bartók’s Scherzo, Op. 14, No. 2, mm. 1-32
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Music Theory Online 15/1 Weblink: www.mtosmt.org Abstract: David Lewin’s didactic examples of transformational analysis leave open questions about how to choose the most expressive object families, network types, and visual representations, as well as deeper questions about the nature of “gesture” and the agent “inside the music.” By developing several contrasting analyses of […]
Interacting Solitudes: Analytical and Interpretive Approaches to György Kurtág’s Kafka Fragments
Author: Kurth, Richard Publication details: Department of Music, University of Chicago, 5 December 2008
‘Tout, dans ses charmes, est dangereux’: music, gesture and the dangers of French pantomime, 1748—1775
Author: Law, Hedy Publication details: Cambridge Opera Journal 20, no. 3 (2008): 241-268. Weblink: https://www.jstor.org Abstract: In 1779 Chabanon noted the potential danger inherent in gesture because it might produce instantaneous and harmful effects. This article examines how Rameau, Rousseau and Gretry incorporated putatively dangerous gestures into the pantomimes they wrote for their operas, and […]
Multiple Modes of Continuity and Coherence in Schoenberg’s Piano Piece, Op. 11, No.1
Author: Kurth, Richard Publication details: Musical Currents from the Left Coast, ed. Jack Boss and Bruce Quaglia. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 282-298 Weblink: http://www.cambridgescholars.com
Part Three—Authenticity, Reliability and Accuracy of Digital Records in the Artistic, Scientific and Governmental Sectors: Domain 2 Task Force Report
Author: Roeder, John, Eppard, Philip, Underwood, William, and Lauriault, Tracey Publication details: International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems (InterPARES 2): Experiential, Interactive and Dynamic Records, Luciana Duranti and Randy Preston, eds., 139-186. Padova, Italy: Associazione Nazionale Archivistica Italiana. Weblink: http://www.interpares.org
Music and Politics on the Korean Peninsula. Special Volume of The World of Music
Editor: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung Weblink: http://www.journal-the-world-of-music.com Abstract: The collection of essays in this volume moves forward from the position that music and politics are always inextricably linked. The modern conceit of autonomous art fails to account for the historical and cultural embeddedness of music, that its creation and performance exist within […]
Music and Politics on the Korean Peninsula
Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: The World of Music 49.3:7-12 (2008) Weblink: www.jstor.org
Celestial Sirens and Nightingales: Change and Assimilation in the Munich Anthologies of Georg Victorinus
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music 14, no. 1 Weblink: http://sscm-jscm.org Abstract: The Italianate sacred vocal concerto of the early seventeenth century was transmitted not least through the efforts of northern anthologists. Two anthologies of Georg Victorinus in Munich, Siren coelestis(1616) and Philomela coelestis (1624), containing 200 Latin sacred concertos, demonstrate not only the enthusiasm for the new style […]
Coming to the City: SamulNori and 1970s’ Korean Music Culture
Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: Mandang Yi Hyegu paksa paeksu songch’uk nonmunjip (Essays on Music Offered to Dr. Lee Hye-ku in Honor of His Hundredth Birthday), ed. Hwang Junyeon et al, 661-91. Seoul: Minsogwŏn, 2008.
A transformational space for Elliott Carter’s recent complement-union music
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS). Vol. 37, pp. 300-307 Weblink: http://download.springer.com Abstract: Elliott Carter’s recent music exploits a special combinatorial property of the all-trichord hexachord. I show how this property can be reconceived in terms of interesting and analytically significant musical transformations: three involutions on the pitch-class aggregate which constitute a […]