Musicalische Friedens-Freud: the Westphalian Peace and Music in Protestant Nuremberg
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: Rethinking Europe: War and Peace in the Early Modern German Lands, edited by Gerhild Scholz Williams, Sigrun Haude and Christian Schneider, 277-99. Chloe 48. Leiden: Brill, 2019. Weblink: https://go.exlibris.link/FYz6Jw52
Timely Negotiations: Formative Interactions in Cyclic Duets
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Analytical Approaches to World Music 7, no. 1 (2019) Weblink: https://aawmjournal.com Abstract: Susanne Fürniss’s (2006) magisterial survey of Aka polyphony analyzes a remarkable duet in which each singer draws material from a regularly repeating cycle but varies it on the fly to complement her partner’s likewise varying repetitions. This texture […]
Naming and Singing the Psalter in Counter-Reformation Germany
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: In Names and Naming in Early Modern Germany, edited by Joel F. Harrington and Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, 87-108. New York, Oxford: Berghahn, 2019. Weblink: https://go.exlibris.link/tH46cDHx
Music and the Book of Nature: Vincenzo Galilei on the Conundrum of Musical Consonance
Author: Konoval, Brandon Publication details: I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance 22, no. 1 (Spring 2019): 93-119. Weblink: https://journals.uchicago.edu Abstract: Few figures have drawn more scholarly attention to the relationship between Renaissance musical humanism and early modern science than Vincenzo Galileo (c.1520/30–1591). From the Dialogo della Musica Antica et della Moderna (1581) through to […]
That’s All It Does: Steve Reich and Balinese Gamelan
Author: Tenzer, Michael Publication details: Rethinking Reich, edited by Sumanth Gopinath and Pwyll ap Siôn, 303-322. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Weblink: https://oxfordscholarship.com Abstract: Though integral to his formation as a composer, Steve Reich’s studies of Balinese gamelan have been overlooked. In part this is because of a certain redundancy: features of Balinese overlap […]
From Sexuality to Governmentality: The Oedipus Complex of Michel Foucault
Author: Konoval, Brandon Publications details: Modern Intellectual History 16, no. 1 (2019): 217-49. Weblink: https://cambridge.org Abstract: The figure of Oedipus haunted the thought of Michel Foucault from the outset of his tenure at the Collège de France, in association with several key philosophical and historical projects, and enduring until the conclusion of his career. However, […]
Max Weber and the Sociology of Music
Author: Konoval, Brandon Publication details: The Oxford Handbook of Max Weber, edited by Edith Hanke, Lawrence Scaff, and Sam Whimster. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Weblink: https://oxfordhandbooks.com Abstract: No art form drew closer or more sustained attention from Max Weber than music. A lifelong personal passion, music became the subject of a singularly ambitious […]
Maestro Media: Harnessing technology in the evolution of the 21st Century ensemble program
Author: Taylor, Robert and Girard, Jonathan Publication details: Presented at College Band Directors National Association Conference at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 21 February, 2019. Abstract: Technology can facilitate collaborative learning, raise performance standards, and increase external visibility immensely. We will discuss strategies for using virtual learning enhance learning and expand creative potential. Whether a […]
Lutheranism and Calvinism
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: The Cambridge History of Sixteenth-Century Music, edited by Iain Fenlon and Richard Wistreich, 56-91. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019 Weblink: https://go.exlibris.link/JPXNDv0n
Korea and the Western Drumset: Scattering Rhythms
Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: Asian Ethnology 78, no. 2 (2019): 515-517. Weblink: https://jstor.org Abstract: This book is an exciting new addition to the growing body of academic literature written about non-Western influences on the Western drumset by an active practitioner. Simon Barker, a lecturer in jazz studies at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University […]