Gestures and Pathways in György Kurtág’s Kafka Fragments, op. 24
Author: Kurth, Richard Publication details: School of Music, University of Washington, 16 January 2009
Edition of Anton Holzner, Viretum pierium
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: (Munich: Nikolaus Heinrich, 1621). Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era 156. Madison, Wisc.: A-R Editions, 2009. Weblink: https://www.areditions.com
Archivists meet Artists: InterPARES Insights into Authenticity
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Art, Conservation, and Authenticities: Material, Concept, Context, ed. Erma Hermens and Tina Fiske, 227-234. London: Archetype Publications Weblink: http://www.interpares.org
‘Yŏngdong Nongak’: Mountains, Music, and the SamulNori Canon
Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: Acta Koreana 12.1:1-26 (2009) Weblink: www.earticle.net
A Transformational Space Structuring the Counterpoint in Adès’s “Auf dem Wasser zu singen”
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Music Theory Online 15/1 Weblink: http://www.mtosmt.org Abstract: The third movement of Thomas Adès’s string quartet Arcadiana features a complex, free textural counterpoint that seems resistant to the transformational analysis of the common sort that focuses, as does motivic analysis, on a small family of structured objects. However, by choosing a suitable space of […]
Review of Michael Cherlin, Schoenberg’s Musical Imagination
Author: Kurth, Richard Publications detail: Journal of the American Musicological Society 62/1: 243-252 Weblink: http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca/stable/10.1525/jams.2009.62.1.243
Local polymetric structures in Elliott Carter’s 90+ for piano (1994)
Author: Poudrier, Ève Publication details: Modernist legacy: Essays on new music, edited by Björn Heile, Aldershot, 205-223. England: Ashgate, 2009. Weblink: https://taylorfrancis.com Abstract: At the heart of early musical modernism was a desire to face the challenges of a rapidly changing way of life brought about by scientific discoveries, technological advances and industrialization with radically new forms […]
Constructing Transformational Signification: Gesture and Agency in Bartók’s Scherzo, Op. 14, No. 2, mm. 1-32
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Music Theory Online 15/1 Weblink: www.mtosmt.org Abstract: David Lewin’s didactic examples of transformational analysis leave open questions about how to choose the most expressive object families, network types, and visual representations, as well as deeper questions about the nature of “gesture” and the agent “inside the music.” By developing several contrasting analyses of […]
Interacting Solitudes: Analytical and Interpretive Approaches to György Kurtág’s Kafka Fragments
Author: Kurth, Richard Publication details: Department of Music, University of Chicago, 5 December 2008
‘Tout, dans ses charmes, est dangereux’: music, gesture and the dangers of French pantomime, 1748—1775
Author: Law, Hedy Publication details: Cambridge Opera Journal 20, no. 3 (2008): 241-268. Weblink: https://www.jstor.org Abstract: In 1779 Chabanon noted the potential danger inherent in gesture because it might produce instantaneous and harmful effects. This article examines how Rameau, Rousseau and Gretry incorporated putatively dangerous gestures into the pantomimes they wrote for their operas, and […]