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Guiding Light: An Octopath Traveler Harp Collection
Artist: Samantha Ballard (BMus’15) Producer: Samantha Ballard Recording details: Independent release, May 2020 Link
Donizetti, Vienna, Cosmopolitanism
Author: Vellutini, Claudio Publication details: Journal of the American Musicological Society 73, no. 1 (Spring 2020): 1-52. Weblink: http://jams.ucpress.edu Abstract: This article examines the change in the Viennese reception of Donizetti’s operas in relation to the internationalization of the city’s theatrical life during the last fifteen years of the Metternich regime (1833–48), as well as […]
100,000 Lakes
Composer: T. Patrick Carrabré Recording details: Winter Wind Records, April 2020 Link
A Quinary
Ensemble: Vancouver Island Symphony Featured UBC composers: Dorothy Chang, Stephen Chatman, Jocelyn Morlock, Edward Top Featured UBC artist: Paolo Bortolussi Recording details: Redshift Records, released March 14, 2020 Link
A North American Songbook
Artists: J. Patrick Raftery, Mark Anderson Recording details: Canadian Music Centre, released March 7, 2020 Link
The Vocal Music of Marga Richter: Volume 2
Artists: Corey Hamm, William George Composer: Marga Richter Recording details: Deep Cove Records, released March 6, 2020 Link
Formative Processes of Durational Projection in “Free Rhythm” World Music
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm, edited by Richard Wolf, Stephen Blum, and Christopher Hasty, 55-74. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Weblink: https://www.oxfordscholarship.com Abstract: Recent theories of meter have been enriched by consideration of the time cycles and nonisochronous beats found in many musical cultures. However, these theories do […]
Logic Programming Models of Music: A Semiotic Evaluation
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Perspectives of New Music Vol. 57, No. 1-2, Perspectives on and around John Rahn (Winter/Summer 2019), pp. 375-402 Weblink: https://www.jstor.org/ Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7757/persnewmusi.57.1-2.0375?refreqid=excelsior%3A737216277498eff13493ebc85e955f5e&seq=1
Interpreting the Italian Voice in London (and Elsewhere)
Author: Vellutini, Claudio Publication details: “Interpreting Italian Singing in London (and Elsewhere).” In London Voices, 1820-1840, edited by Roger Parker and Susan Rutherford, 51–69. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. Weblink: https://www.press.uchicago.edu Abstract: An enduring and ever-changing trope, the notion of the “Italian voice” became a contentious subject in the opera discourse […]
After Love
Composer: Stephen Chatman Text author: Sara Teasdale Publisher: E.C. Schirmer Music Co. Abstract: In Sara Teasdale’s poem After Love, the opening line “There is no magic any more” establishes the theme of vanishing love. This setting of the poignant text, in the dark key of D-flat major, emphasizes the natural rhythm of the words, mixed meters, and irregular […]