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 […]
Compositional Flora and Fauna in Anton Webern’s song “Gleich und Gleich,” op. 12 no. 4
Author: Kurth, Richard Publication details: Vancouver International Song Institute
Mission: Possible
Author: Volpé Bligh, Elizabeth Publication details: Harp Column Weblink: https://harpcolumn.com
Advice—How Can I Get Better at Counting?
Author: Volpé Bligh, Elizabeth Publication details: Harp Column Weblink: https://www.harpcolumn.com
Rhythmic Play, Compositional Intent, and Communication in Rock Music
Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: Popular Music 33, no. 1 (2014): 69-90. Weblink: https://www.cambridge.org Abstract: This paper focuses on the use of rhythmic play in the compositional strategies of rock musicians. Such play is seen as both embodying an attitude on the part of the performer-composer in which music as pure structure tests one’s skill and imagination in […]
Reworking the Confessional Soundscape in the German Counter-Reformation
Author: Alexander Fisher Publication details: Basler Jahrbuch für historische Musikpraxis 38 (2014): 105-16. Weblink: https://go.exlibris.link/T0BtjzkL