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Taking Culture Seriously: Democratic Music and its Transformative Potential in South Korea
Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: The World of Music 49, no. 3 (2007): 75-106. Weblink: https://jstor.org Abstract: This article outlines my personal search for a working theory of democratic music in the context of South Korean folk drumming and dance (p’ungmul). Motivated by the call of Korean political theorists and folklorists of the late twentieth century for […]
Co-operating Continuities in the Music of Thomas Adès
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Music Analysis 25/1-2: 125-154 Weblink: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com Abstract: Jonathan Kramer defined postmodern music as an ironic, fragmentary mix of past and present compositional procedures embodying multiple temporal dimensions. Recent theorising grounded in phenomenological and cognitive-scientific accounts of musical experience suggests that it may be possible to develop a more insightful interpretative perspective by extending Kramer’s […]
Triadic Transformation and Parsimonious Voice Leading in Some Interesting Passages by Gavin Bryars
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Intégral 20:43-67 Weblink: https://www.jstor.org
Autonomy and Dialog in Elliott Carter’s ‘Enchanted Preludes
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Analytical Studies in World Music. Ed. Michael Tenzer. New York: Oxford. Weblink: http://www.oxfordscholarship.com Abstract: This chapter provides a detailed examination of a contemporary chamber work by a celebrated American composer, with: Social and Artistic Context; One Composer’s Response; Sources of Autonomy: Definitions; Textural Overview; Pitch-Interval Dialogue; Deepening Engagements; and Closure.
Twelve-Tone Compositional Strategies and Poetic Signification in Schönberg’s Vier Stücke für gemischten Chor, op. 27
Author: Kurth, Richard Publication details: Journal of the Arnold Schönberg Center 7: 157-186. Download: PDF
Co-operating Continuities in the Music of Thomas Adès
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Music Analysis 25/1-2: 125-154 Weblink: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com Abstract: Jonathan Kramer defined postmodern music as an ironic, fragmentary mix of past and present compositional procedures embodying multiple temporal dimensions. Recent theorising grounded in phenomenological and cognitive-scientific accounts of musical experience suggests that it may be possible to develop a more insightful interpretative perspective by extending Kramer’s […]
Analytical Studies in World Music
Author: Tenzer, Michael Publication details: New York: Oxford. 434 pages. Weblink: https://global.oup.com
P’ungmul: Han’guk ŭi puk nori-wa ch’um (P’ungmul: South Korean Drumming and Dance)
Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: Chicago Series in Ethnomusicology. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2006. [Winner of 2008 Lee Hye-gu Award, Korean Musicological Society] Weblink: http://press.uchicago.edu Abstract: Composed of a core set of two drums and two gongs, p’ungmul is a South Korean tradition of rural folk percussion. Steeped in music, dance, theater, and pageantry, but centrally focused on rhythm, […]
‘The Formation of Namsadang (Korean Itinerant Performer) Troupes’: Chapter One A Study of Namsadang Troupes
Translated, edited, and with an Introduction by: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: Acta Koreana 9.2:31-57 (2006) Weblink: www.earticle.net
Mirages: Music of Dorothy Chang
Artists: Atlas Trio; Kylix New Music Ensemble; Yuri Hooker, cello Featured Faculty Composer: Dorothy Chang Recording details: CMC Link