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Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music, 1900-1960
Authors: Laurel Parsons with Brenda Ravenscroft, eds. Publication details: Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers. Vol. 1: Concert Music, 1900–1960, New York: Oxford University Press, 2022 Weblink: global.oup.com Description: Through musical analysis of compositions written in the first half of the twentieth century, Analytic Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music, 1900-1960 celebrates the […]
Music and Deafness in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. Imagination
Author: Anabel Maler Publication details: Journal of the Society for American Music, Volume 16 , Issue 2 , May 2022 , pp. 184 – 205 Weblink: cambridge.org Abstract: This article argues that deaf musical knowledge became epistemically excluded from systems of musical thought in the United States as the result of a battle between two […]
Viola Borealis
Artist: Marina Thibeault, viola Recording details: ATMA Classique, released March 25, 2022 With her latest album, Viola Borealis, violist Marina Thibeault explores the musical links between several northern cultures. From the 2016 concerto by Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks to solo works by Anishinaabe composer Melody McKiver to the very first viola concerto—composed around 1716 by Telemann—the elections on this album showcase the […]
Perception of Musicality and Emotion in Signed Songs
Author: Anabel Maler with Heather Harden Mangelsdorf and Jason Listman. Publication details: Music Perception (2021) 39 (2): 160–180. Weblink: online.ucpress.edu Abstract: This study investigated how signed performances express musical meaning and emotions. Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing (HoH), and hearing participants watched eight translated signed songs and eight signed lyrics with no influence of music. The participants […]
The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy
Edited by: VanHandel, Leigh Publication details:The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy Weblink: https://routledge.com Outstanding Multi-authored Collection Award given for a distinguished multi-author collection for a volume edited by Leigh VanHandel, The Routledge companion to music theory pedagogy. It’s the first pedagogically-oriented scholarship to win a Society for Music Theory Publication award. From publisher: Today’s […]
Living song : an intergenerational investigation of Moravian folk song
Author: Julia Ulehla Publication details: PhD Thesis for the University of British Columbia Weblink: ubc.library.ca Description: Throughout the first half of the 20th century, biologist/ethnomusicologist Vladimír Úlehla (1888-1947) transcribed hundreds of folk songs from Strážnice, his hometown in the rural region of Slovácko, which lies at the border of present-day Czech and Slovak Republics. For Úlehla, Slovácko songs […]
The Multifunctional Pianist: The Recipe for Orchestral Color and Playing
Author: Wong, Lucas Publication details: NATS Journal of Singing Excerpt:As vocal pianists throughout our studies and careers, we all work with piano reductions encountered in choral and operaticrepertoire. Singers, who study these works through the lens of a piano score or reduction, depend on accompanists’ or coaches’ expertise in realizing these scores, while adapting accordingly […]
Rhythmic Techniques in Deaf Hip Hop
Author: Robert Komaniecki with Anabel Maler Publication details: Society for Music Theory, Volume 27, Number 1, March 2021 Weblink: mtosmt.org Abstract:The art of signed music involves the use of rhythmicized signs from a signed language, such as American Sign Language (ASL), in a musical context. Signed music encompasses a variety of subgenres, including ASL hip […]
Vocal Pitch in Rap Flow
Author: Robert Komaniecki Publication details: INTÉGRAL The Journal of Applied Musical Thought, Volume 34 Weblink: esm.rochester.edu Abstract: In this article, I argue that pitch plays an important role in the structure and delivery of rap flows. I demonstrate the ways in which rappers manipulate pitch to create a structural parameter that can operate independently from […]
Transcendent Beethoven
Artist: David Fung Transcendent Beethoven Steinway & Sons (STNS 30081) Release Date: 08/07/2020 Recorded live on January 19, 2013 at Morse Recital Hall, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Engineer: Corin Lee Art Direction: Jackie Fugere Design: Cover to Cover Design, Anilda Carrasquillo Photos of David Fung: Studio D2 A new addition to Steinway & Sons’ Beethoven […]