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
A Musical Dialogue in Bronze: Gregor Aichinger’s Lacrumae (1604) and Hans Reichle’s Crucifixion Group for the Basilica of SS. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg
Author: Alexander Fisher Publication details: Visual Acuity and the Arts of Communication in Early Modern Germany, edited by Jeffrey Chipps Smith, 119-41. Farnham, Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. Weblink: https://www.routledge.com/
The Sounds of Eucharistic Culture
Author: Alexander Fisher Publication details: A Companion to the Eucharist in the Reformation, edited by Lee Palmer Wandel, 445-65. Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition 46. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2014. Weblink: https://go.exlibris.link/CRcr2FfM
Transformation in Post-Tonal Music
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Oxford Handbooks Online in Music, ed. Alexander Rehding. New York: Oxford University Press Weblink: http://oxfordhandbooks.com Abstract: Post-tonal music (loosely, most Western art-music compositions since the turn of the 20th century) manifests many organizational techniques but not the processes of harmony and counterpoint that direct and articulate time in tonal music. Of the diverse […]
The Ethnomusicologist as Composer
Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: Music and Culture 31:31-44 (2014)
Meticulous Markings
Author: Volpé Bligh, Elizabeth Publication details: Harp Column Weblink: https://harpcolumn.com Abstract: When you rent—whether it’s a car, a beach house, or even a harp—you are at the mercy of the previous renters. What you have to work with can be less than ideal—beat up, messy, poorly maintained. The same is true when it comes to rental music. Rental […]
Adina par excellence: Eugenia Tadolini and the Performing Tradition of Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore in Vienna
Author: Vellutini, Claudio Publication details: Nineteenth-Century Music 38, no. 1 (2014): 3-29 Weblink: http://ncm.ucpress.edu Abstract: Gaetano Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore was subjected to a series of substantial modifications after its premiere in 1832. In this article I focus on the performing tradition of the opera in Vienna. The history of these performances and their reception allow us to examine […]
Music, Piety, and Propaganda: The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: The New Cultural History of Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Weblink: https://global.oup.com Abstract: Music, Piety, and Propaganda: The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria explores the nature of sound as a powerful yet ambivalent force in the religious struggles that permeated Germany during the Counter-Reformation. Author Alexander J. Fisher goes beyond a […]