Anerca: Representations of Inuit Poetry in Late 20th-Century Art Music
Author: Laurel Parsons Publication details: “Anerca: Representations of Inuit Poetry in Late 20th-Century Art Music.” Arctic Discourses. Edited by Anka Ryall, Johan Schimanski, and Henning Howlid Wærp. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010. Weblink: www.cambridgescholars.com Description: Both fictional and non-fictional accounts of the Arctic have long been a major source of powerful images of the […]
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 […]
Cosmophony
Featured UBC Faculty Artist: Jennifer Butler composer Track 14. Neptune Redshift Music: redshiftmusicsociety.bandcamp.com/album/cosmophony Released: June 27th, 2010 CREDITS Performer: Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa, piano (iwaasa.com) Producers: Mark Takeshi McGregor and Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa Recording engineer: Nathan Hilton Assistant engineer: Jonathan Hong Digital editing: Nathan Hilton Mastering and Mixing: Nathan Hilton Piano Technician: Albert Picknell Recorded at: Rolston Recital […]
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
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 […]
Early Music and the Ambivalent Origins of Elisabeth Lutyens’s Modernism.
Author: Laurel Parsons Publication details: “Early Music and the Ambivalent Origins of Elisabeth Lutyens’s Modernism.” British Music and Modernism, 1895–1960. Edited by Matthew Riley. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010. Weblink: www.taylorfrancis.com Abstract: The English imagination takes the form of a ring or circle. It is endless because it has no beginning and no end; it moves backwards as […]
Reference and Mosaic Form in Peter-Jan Wagemanss Opera Legende
Author: Top, Edward Publication details: Reference and Mosaic Form in Peter-Jan Wagemanss Opera Legende, Deel 59, No. 2 (2009), pp. 157-184 (28 pages) Weblink: Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis (KVNM)
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 […]
Different Stones
Featured UBC Faculty Artist: Jennifer Butler composer Track 3. Sky Redshift Music: redshiftmusicsociety.bandcamp.com/album/different-stones Released: May 2nd, 2009 CREDITS Performers: Mark Takeshi McGregor, flutes www.marktakeshimcgregor.com Producers: Emma Lain and Mark Takeshi McGregor Studio manager: Chris Segnitz Engineer: Emma Lain Assistant Engineer: Ramsés Ramírez Digital Editing: Emma Lain, Ina Nikolow and John D.S. Adams Mastering: John D.S. Adams Recorded at: […]