Publications

Themes of Exile and (Re-)Enclosure in Music for the Franciscan Convents of Counter-Reformation Munich during the Thirty Years War

Themes of Exile and (Re-)Enclosure in Music for the Franciscan Convents of Counter-Reformation Munich during the Thirty Years War

Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: Enduring Loss in Early Modern Germany: Cross Disciplinary Perspectives, edited by Lynne Tatlock, 281-305. Leiden: Brill, 2010. Weblink: https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004184541.i-478.39 Abstract: This anthology assembles cross-disciplinary perspectives on the experience of and responses to forms of material and spiritual loss in early modern Germany, tracing how individuals and communities registered, coped with, and […]

Pierrot Lunaire: Persona, Voice, and the Fabric of Allusion

Author: Kurth, Richard Publication details: The Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg, edited by Jennifer Shaw and Joseph Auner, 120-34. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Weblink: https://cambridge.org Abstract: Since its 1912 composition and premiere, Schoenberg’s Dreimal sieben Gedichte aus Albert Girauds Pierrot lunaire (Three Times Seven Poems from Albert Giraud’s Pierrot lunaire), Op. 21 has […]

Immanence and Transcendence in Moses und Aron

Author: Kurth, Richard Publication details: The Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg, edited by Jennifer Shaw and Joseph Auner, 177-90. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Weblink: https://cambridge.org Abstract: Schoenberg’s opera Moses und Aron dramatizes – along philosophical, theological, and psychological lines – the predicament of the prophet, who grasps the essential unrepresentability (Unvorstellbarkeit) of […]

Alls wie mann inn krieg pflegt zue thuen: Music and Catholic Processions in Counter-Reformation Augsburg

Alls wie mann inn krieg pflegt zue thuen: Music and Catholic Processions in Counter-Reformation Augsburg

Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: City Limits: Perspectives on the Historical European City, edited by Glenn Clark, et al., 254-72. Montréal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2010. Weblink: https://go.exlibris.link/MGCKKm2c Abstract: Deals with the aspects of city life in the European centres such as London, Paris, Augsburg, Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Edinburgh. Covering topics such as governance, performance, high culture […]

Expectation and Treatment of Dissonance in Wolfgang Rihm’s Third String Quartet

Author: Top, Edward Publication details: Dutch Journal of Music Theory 14, no. 3 (2009): 143-54. Weblink: https://lup.be Abstract: In his Third String Quartet, as in many of his works, composer Wolfgang Rihm demonstrates his fascination with the unexpected. It appears that in order for expectation to be thwarted, a passionate, though highly sophisticated level of […]