Kurtág’s Aphoristic Reflex: Constellations of Poetic and Vocal Presence in the Attila József Fragments
Author: Kurth, Richard Publication details: Musicological Conference on the 90th Birthday of György Kurtág. Institute for Musicology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
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 […]
Dual Portrait, in Fragments: György Kurtág’s Attila József Fragments for Solo Soprano, op. 20
Author: Kurth, Richard Publication details: Presented at the Research Colloquia Spring 2016, Department of Music, University of Hong Kong, Lung Fu Shan, Hong Kong. 6 April 2016. Weblink: http://arts.hku.hk Abstract: György Kurtág’s many vocal compositions reflect his discerning and uniquely responsive literary sensibility. He extracts fragments that reveal aphoristic geometries of vivid imagery, conceptual juxtaposition, and […]
Superposition in Kaija Saariaho’s ‘The claw of the magnolia….’
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music from 1960-2000, edited by Laurel Parsons, and Brenda Ravenscroft, 156-175. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Oxford Scholarship Online, 2016. Weblink: https://global.oup.com Abstract: Kaija Saariaho’s From the Grammar of Dreams, for two solo female singers, elegantly articulates the poetic structure of Sylvia Plath’s […]
Verdi on Stage: Notes on Five Recent Productions
Author: Vellutini, Claudio Publication details: Nineteenth-Century Music Review 13, no. 2 (2016): 392-400. Weblink: https://www.cambridge.org
Discipline and Pianist: Foucault and the Genealogy of the Étude
Author: Konoval, Brandon Publication details: Foucault on the Arts and Letters: Perspectives for the 21st Century, edited by Catherine M. Soussloff, 79-102. London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016. Weblink: http://www.academia.edu
Dyslexia and Post-Secondary Aural Skills Instruction
Authors: Laurel Parsons Publication details: Aural Skills and the Music Major with Dyslexia.” Music Theory Online 21.4, December 2015. Weblink: mtosmt.org Abstract: Traditional post-secondary aural-skills curricula can create extreme difficulties for music majors with dyslexia. This article places the author’s experience teaching these students into the context of contemporary scientific and educational research on dyslexia, including […]
Music, Bacchus, and Freedom
Author: Law, Hedy Publication details: The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Body, edited by Youn Kim and Sander L. Gilman. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2015. Weblink: http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com Abstract: Nietzsche points out in The Birth of Tragedy (1872, rev. 1886) that modern Dionysiac music began with Beethoven’s symphonic music and matured in Wagner’s […]
A Cannon-Shaped Man with an Amphibian Voice: Castrato and Disability in Eighteenth-Century France
Author: Law, Hedy Publication details: The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies, edited by Blake Howe, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Neil William Lerner, Joseph Nathan Straus, 329-344. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2015. Weblink: https://global.oup.com Abstract: This essay suggests how cultural histories of the castrato (exemplified by the writings of Giuseppe Gerbino, Roger Freitas, Bonnie […]
Performed Listening: Aesthetic Experience, Musical Imagination, Propulsion, and Elasticity
Author: Kurth, Richard Publication details: Presented at the Department of Music, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, 6 November, 2015. Weblink: http://arts.cuhk.edu.hk Abstract: Seeking to articulate and explore a for comparative analysis of musical performances, this lecture considers questions that lie between music theory and analysis, cognitive science, and philosophical perspectives, then moves towards […]