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Apogee
Composer: Farshid Samandari (MMus’07, DMA’14) UBC Music Performers: Mark Takeshi McGregor flute, Joy Yeh harp Recording details: Redshift Records, June 15, 2018 Link iTunes | Spotify
Lines in Harmony: Types of Cooperation in Four Recent Chinese Compositions
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Presented at 2018 Perspectives on Chinese Contemporary Music Conference at Harvard Center Shanghai, Shanghai, 29 May, 2018. Weblink: https://shanghaicenter.harvard.edu
Sobbing Cupids, Lamenting Lovers, and Weeping Nymphs in the Early Zarzuela: Calderón de la Barca’s El laurel de Apolo (1657) and Durón and Navas’s Apolo y Dafne (ca. 1700)
Author: Acuña, Maria Virginia Publication details: “Sobbing Cupids, Lamenting Lovers, and Weeping Nymphs in the Early Zarzuela: Calderón de la Barca’s El laurel de Apolo (1657) and Durón and Navas’s Apolo y Dafne (circa 1700).” Bulletin of the Comediantes 69, no. 2 (2017): 69-95. Weblink: https://muse.jhu.edu Abstract: How did the mythological zarzuela develop following its […]
Simone Osborne: Live in Concert with Anne Larlee
Title: Simone Osborne: Live in Concert with Anne Larlee Performers: Simone Osborne soprano (DMPS’09). Anne Larlee piano Recording details: Released April 25, 2018
Is the Essay Dead? Research and Writing in the Humanities at a Research-Intensive University
Author: Konoval, Brandon Publications details: “Is the Essay Dead? Research and Writing Instruction in the Humanities at a Research-Intensive University,” University Higher Education Review 50, no. 2 (spring/summer 2018): 53-85. Weblink: https://academia.edu Abstract: The essay is increasingly challenged to justify its relevance and role as a pedagogical tool for introducing undergraduates to research and writing. Genre […]
Comparing Musical Cycles Across the World
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Presented at the Eastman Theory Colloquium at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, 30 March 2018. Weblink: https://www.esm.rochester.edu Abstract: Growing interest in world-music analysis has highlighted the challenges, long recognized by ethnomusicologists, of comparing music from different cultures on the basis of their divergent indigenous conceptions. Yet, […]
Comparing Musical Cycles Across the World
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Presented at the 2018 Rocky Mountain Music Scholars Conference in Tucson, Arizona, 24 March 2018. Weblink: https://music.arizona.edu Abstract: Growing interest in world-music analysis has highlighted the challenges, long recognized by ethnomusicologists, of comparing music from different cultures on the basis of their divergent indigenous conceptions. Yet, in today’s free-for-all sonic […]
Ballads: A History of Emotions in Popular Culture
Author: Metzer, David Publication details: Presented at South By Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, 17 March 2018. Weblink: https://schedule.sxsw.com Abstract: Ballads tell us much about how feelings are understood and experienced in popular culture at particular moments. In my book The Ballad in American Popular Music: From Elvis to Beyoncé, a larger historical development emerges: […]
The African Imagination in Music. By Kofi Agawu
Author: Roeder, John Article: Music Theory Spectrum 40, no. 1 (Spring 2018): 154–159. Weblink: https://academic.oup.com Abstract: The author aims not only to scrutinize the continent’s rich musical practices, but also to confound entrenched prejudices and to promote a deeper appreciation of its musicians’ creativity and expression. While he takes measure of African imagination partly in […]
Chromaticity
Ensemble: Sea and Sky Performers: Julia Nolan alto and soprano saxophones, Joan Blackman violin, Jane Hayes piano Recording details: Afterday Audio, March 2 2018 Featured compositions: Walk Safely Over Soft Places (2013) by Matthew Emery Anne-uity No. I (1993) by Fred Stride