Korean Rock, Sanjo, and National Identity
Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: Perspectives on Korean Music 2 (2011): 87-102.
Transformational Aspects of Arvo Pärt’s Tintinnabuli Music
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Journal of Music Theory 55, no. 1 (April 01. 2011): 1-41. Weblink: http://jmt.dukejournals.org/content/55/1/1 Abstract: Arvo Pärt’s strict and elemental compositional procedures, which have been described and evaluated critically by several scholars, are here expressed via a mathematical formalism drawn from theories of musical transformations. The analytical opportunities that this perspective provides are […]
Rhythm and Folk Drumming (P’ungmul) as the Musical Embodiment of Communal Consciousness in South Korean Village Society
Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: Analytical and Cross-Cultural Studies in World Music, edited by Michael Tenzer and John Roeder, 263-87. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Weblink: http://oxfordindex.com Abstract: This chapter suggests the musical means by which rhythm and folk drumming embody and recreate what South Korean folklorists and anthropologists have identified in traditional village society […]
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 […]