Entangled Histories: Opera and Cultural Exchange Between Vienna and the Italian States After Napoleon
Author: Claudio Vellutini Publication details: Oxford University Press Weblink: doi.org/10.1093/9780197656594.001.0001 Abstract: Entangled Histories discusses the role of opera in the patterns of cultural exchange across the Austrian Empire in the decades following the wars against revolutionary and Napoleonic France. It argues that new modes of opera production and dissemination between Vienna and the Italian states […]
French Reflections, vol. II: Vienna to Paris (2024)
Featured UBC Faculty Artist: Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet Label: Music@Menlo LIVE Featured Tracks: 8,9,10- L’heure du berger for Winds and Piano, op. 20 by Jean Françaix Recording details: Vienna and Paris have long been cultural powerhouses across art forms. Haydn, the founder of the Classical style, and Mozart, who refined and augmented it, are represented in this volume by […]
Understories
Ensemble: Dálava Featured UBC Students and Alumni: Julia Úlehla (PhD ’21) and Aram Bajakian (PhD Candidate) Recording details: Pi Recordings, April 25th, 2025 Dálava, the genre-defying ensemble led by vocalist Julia Úlehla with guitarist Aram Bajakian (Lou Reed, John Zorn, Diana Krall), returns with Understories, a deeply evocative new album that explores uncharted territories of […]
Mourning for the Death of a Political System: Cantonese Opera and Cantopop in 香 • 夭 Requiem HK (2017)
Author: Hedy Law Publication details: In East Asian Voices of Resistance Against Racism in Music, edited by Maiko Kawabata and Ken Ueno, 138–149. Cambridge: Ethics Press, 2025. Weblink: ethicspress.com/products/east-asian-voices-of-resistance-against-racism-in-music Abstract: The negative racialization of East Asian musicians in Western classical music manifests through tropes of othering such as “Yellow Peril,” Orientalism, and various harmful stereotypes. This volume centers […]
Acoustic Alloy
Ensemble: Vancouver Brass Collective Featured UBC Alumni: Jaelem Bhate (conductor, artistic director, and featured composer), Matheus Moraes (trumpet), Albert Wu (horn), Emily Daily (horn), Maddie Davis (horn), Tyrell Loster (horn), Alan Li (tuba), Jacob Kryger (percussion), Kaiya Gazley (percussion), Chris Baldwin (trumpet), Duane Kirkpatrick (horn), Albert Wu (horn), Marina Antoniou (trombone), Kevin Jackson (trombone), Nick Francis […]
The Influence of Dissonance on Listeners’ Perceived Emotions in Rhythmically Complex Musical Excerpts Copy
Author: Poudrier, Ève & Daniel Shanahan Publication details: Journal of New Music Research, Volume 52, Issue 5 Weblink: doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2025.2453697 Abstract: Although a great deal of research has delved into the perception of rhythm and metre, relatively few studies have focused on how listeners perceive and aesthetically evaluate complex musical rhythms. Here, we ask what it […]
Space fantasy: Nagaoka Shusei’s contributions to Afrofuturist visual culture
Author: Nathan Hesselink Publication details: Hesselink, Nathan. 2024. “ Space Fantasy: Nagaoka Shusei’s Contributions to Afrofuturist Visual Culture.” The Journal of American Culture 00(0): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13598.
Before the World Sleeps
UBC Faculty and Alumni: Alfredo Santa Ana (MMus’05, DMA’10), composer; Miranda Wong, pianist Label: Redshift Records Recording details: Much of the inspiration behind the music in Before the World Sleeps is rooted in the overwhelming sense that the world continues to be on a steady course toward ecological, political, and technological disaster. As the expanding rift between human […]
Confraternities, Congregations and Aural Culture in Counter-Reformation Germany
Author: Alexander Fisher Publication details: In Listening to Confraternities: Spaces for Performance, Patronage and Urban Musical Experience, edited by Tess Knighton, 272–304. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Weblink: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004702776_012 Abstract: The fate of confraternities in post-Reformation Germany was profoundly shaped by the history of religious division. On the eve of the Reformation, major cities like Cologne and Augsburg […]
Seeing Voices: Analyzing Sign Language Music
Author: Anabel Maler Publication details: Oxford University Press, Oxford Studies in Music Theory Weblink: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/seeing-voices-9780197601976?cc=ca&lang=en& Abstract: First monograph-length analytical study of sign language music Introduces and explicates the concepts of a singing signing voice, sign language melody, sign language rhythm and meter, and meaning in sign language music Includes interviews with Deaf musicians that have […]