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 […]
Mapping how students conceptualize ancillary movements in instrumental music performance
Author: MacLennan, Scott Publication details: University of British Columbia. Open Collections, UBC Theses and Dissertations (open.library.ubc.ca) Weblink: open.library.ubc.ca 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 […]
Cracking the Nutcracker
Author: Volpé Bligh, Elizabeth Publication details: Harp Column Weblink: https://harpcolumn.com
Two Harps Are Better Than One
Author: Volpé Bligh, Elizabeth Publication details: Harp Column Weblink: https://harpcolumn.com
Defining temporal multiplicity in American popular music, 1950-2000: A case study in macroanalysis using multiple bibliographic databases
Author: Poudrier, Ève & Castonguay, Rémi Presentation details: Current Musicology 50th Anniversary Conference, Columbia University, New York City, New York, 29 March 2015 Weblink: http://columbia.edu Abstract: This presentation explores the challenges of assembling a corpus of secondary literature for the purpose of computational analysis working across multiple bibliographic databases. Our multi-tiered search methodology will be described, and […]
Meditations on Objective Aesthetics in World Music
Author: Tenzer, Michael Publications details: Ethnomusicology 59, no. 1 (2015): 1-30. Weblink: https://music.ubc.ca Abstract: This essay opens a dialogue between ethnomusicology and neo- Darwinism as promulgated by biologist Richard Dawkins and others. The first half engages quantum physicist David Deutsch’s much-discussed The Beginning of Infinity (2011), which integrates neo-Darwinism with the epistemology of objective knowledge developed […]
Early Voices in SamulNori’s Historical Record
Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: SamulNori: Korean Percussion for a Contemporary World, by Keith Howard, 76-86. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. Weblink: https://routledge.com Abstract: SamulNori is a percussion quartet which has given rise to a genre, of the same name, that is arguably Korea’s most successful ’traditional’ music of recent times. Today, there are dozens of amateur and […]
Thesaurus litaniarium: The Symbolism and Practice of Musical Litanies in Counter-Reformation Germany
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: Early Music History 34 (2015): 45-95. Weblink: https://cambridge.org Abstract: A venerable form of petitionary prayer, the litany emerged as a key aural expression of Counter-Reformation Catholicism around the turn of the seventeenth century, particularly in the confessionally contested borderlands of the Holy Roman Empire. Its explicit projection of the dogma of sanctoral […]
Review of James Kennaway, Bad Vibrations: The History of the Idea of Music as a Cause of Disease
Author: Konoval, Brandon Publication details: Isis 105, no. 4 (December 2014): 829-830. Weblink: https://jstor.org
Bartók’s Grooves: Metrical Processes in the Fourth String Quartet
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Bartók’s String Quartets: Tradition and Legacy, edited by Harald Krebs and Daniel Biro, 81-107. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014 Weblink: http://www.oupcanada.com Abstract: Many passages in Bela Bartók’s string quartets resemble the repeated pattern, or grooves, of popular and world music. The fourth quartet, for instance, exposes extended periodicities near the beginning of […]