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 […]
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 […]