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Through the Lens of Time
Artist: Francisco Fullana, violin and David Fung, piano | Through the Lens of Time City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Carlos Izcaray, conductor Release Date: March 2nd 2018 Orchid Classics: ORC100080 Purchase album
Post-Tonal Solmization for Post-Tonal Aural Skills: Implementing Ordered Pitch-Class Intervals
Author: Robert Komaniecki with David Geary Publication details:Music Theory Pedagogy Online, Volume 31 Weblink: jmtp.appstate.edu Abstract: Scholarship regarding solmization systems is largely limited to tonal methods. The present article extends the discussion to post-tonal aural skills, citing the need for a separate, interval-based methodology that fulfills the same functional role for atonal repertoire as scale-degree […]
Analyzing Collaborative Flow in Rap Music
Author: Robert Komaniecki Publication details: Society for Music Theory, Volume 23, Number 4, December 2017 Weblink: mtosmt.org Abstract: This article is a study of the ways in which collaboration is signaled in the delivery of rap lyrics. I begin by describing the importance and prevalence of unified flow in music released by rap groups during […]
And You, Dear Eagle, Have You Seen My Cows? Reflections of Moravian Song in North American Indigenous Spaces
Author: Julia Ulehla Publication details: In From Folklore to World Music: Reflections, edited by Irena Přibylová and Lucie Uhlíková, 119-31. Náměšt nad Oslavou: Municipal Cultural Center, 2017. Weblink: folkoveprazdniny.cz Description: According to mythologist Martin Shaw, folk tales are not the “penned agenda of one brainrattled individual” who employs “the most succulent portions of the human imagination” to author […]
Scherzando Piano: Music of Debussy & Chabrier
Artists: Silvia Celadin soprano, Lucas Wong piano, Timothy Kwok piano Release Year: 2017 Recorded at Fazioli Concert Hall, Sacile, Italy Engineer: Federico Furlanetto Description: Playful works by Debussy and Chabrier.
Encountering Life in Sound : Affect, Vibration, and the Architecture of Sound (Davala Concert)
Author: Julia Ulehla Publication details: Performance given for a Colloquium of the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. Weblink: library.ubc.ca Description: Concert by the experimental folk band Dálava, given as part of a workshop entitled “Encountering Life in Song: Affect, Vibration, and the Architecture of Sound” by Julia Úlehla. In the workshop recording, Úlehla answers questions from […]
Conjuring Ancestors: Moravian Folklore in the Urban Avant-Garde
Author: Julia Ulehla Publication details: In From Folklore to World Music: In the Beginning There Was…, edited by Irena Přibylová and Lucie Uhlíková, 114-23. Náměšt nad Oslavou: Municipal Cultural Center, 2016. Weblink: folkoveprazdniny.cz Description: This presentation explores the sources, both real and imagined, of a diasporic performance practice/auto-ethnographic research on Moravian folk song. The New York/Vancouver based Dálava […]
Humour in late Debussy: multiple perspectives on “Douze études”
Author: Wong, Lucas Publication details: WONG, LUCAS. “Humour in Late Debussy: Multiple Perspectives on ‘Douze Études.’” The Musical Times 157, no. 1935 (2016): 77–98. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44862507.
Inhabiting or Inhibiting? Physical Expression and Ancillary Movements in Instrumental Music Performance
Author: MacLennan, Scott Publication details:Canadian Music Educator, Vol. 57, Iss. 4, (Summer 2016): 22-27. Weblink: www.proquest.com Abstract: Music theorists have emphasized the intellectual, disembodied mind throughout music education’s history in Western culture extending back to the time of the ancient Greeks. Additionally, Regelski (2009) notes that the dominant and residual view of music curriculum involves […]
This Imaginary Halfe-Nothing
Author: Laurel Parsons Publication details: “‘This Imaginary Halfe-Nothing’: Temporality in Elisabeth Lutyens’s Essence of Our Happinesses.” In Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers. Vol. 3: Concert Music, 1960–2000 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016). 196–220. Weblink: academic.oup.com Description: In Essence of Our Happinesses (1968), a three-movement work for tenor, chorus, and orchestra, Elisabeth Lutyens explores the […]