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 […]
Reference and Mosaic Form in Peter-Jan Wagemans’ Opera Legende
Author: Top, Edward Publication details: “Reference and Mosaic Form in Peter-Jan Wagemanss Opera Legende.” Tijdschrift Van De Koninklijke Vereniging Voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis 59, no. 2 (2009): 157-84. Weblink: https://www.jstor.org Abstract: The three pillars of Wagemans’s aesthetic, as he outlined in a 1994 publication by Donemus, are recollection, association and quality. In Adorno’s view, expression had […]
Life Has Loveliness
Composer: Stephen Chatman Text author: Sara Teasdale Publisher: Galaxy Music Corporation Purchase
Six Preludes
Composer: Stephen Chatman Publisher: Galaxy Music Corporation PDF
Repeated Borrowing: The Case of “Es ist genug”
Author: Metzer, David Publications details: Journal of the American Musicological Society 71, no. 3 (2018): 703-748. Weblink: http://jams.ucpress.edu Abstract: “Repeated borrowing” refers to the incorporation of elements of a preexisting work in several new compositions. While various studies have focused on songs that have been frequently borrowed, such as “L’homme armé” and “Apache,” they have not considered […]
Rossini’s Operas in Vienna and the Politics of Translation, 1816-1822
Author: Vellutini, Claudio Publication details: “Rossini’s Operas in Vienna and the Politics of Translation, 1816-1822.” In Gioachino Rossini 1868-2018: La musica e il mondo, edited by Ilaria Narici, Emilio Sala, Emanuele Senici, and Benjamin Walton, 337-55. Pesaro: Fondazione Rossini, 2018.
Tapping to Carter: Mensural Determinacy in Complex Rhythmic Sequences
Author: Poudrier, Ève Publication details: “Tapping to Carter: Mensural Determinacy in Complex Rhythmic Sequences.” Empirical Musicology Review 12, no. 3-4 (2018): 277-315. Weblink: http://emusicology.org/ Abstract: The tapping paradigm has played an important role in formulating beat induction models. However, experimental studies that make use of actual music as source materials to investigate pulse finding mechanisms […]
The Essence and Evolution of Song
Author: Vladimír Úlehla. Translated by Julia Ulehla. Edited by Katherine Freeze and Richard K. Wolf Publication details: Ethnomusicology Translations, Number 7, 2018, pp. 1-136. Weblink: scholarworks.iu.edu Description: Vladimír Úlehla (1888-1947) uses his expertise in the biological sciences to perform an in-depth and ecologically situated study of folk songs from his native Czechoslovakia. His posthumous magnum opus […]
Racing Ahead: Race-ing Queer Music Scholarship
Author: Law, Hedy Publication details: Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 22 (2018): 1-2. Weblink: http://muse.jhu.edu
The Memory of the Body: Folk Song as a Key for Releasing Cultural Memory
Author: Julia Ulehla Publication details: In From Folklore to World Music: On Memory, edited by Irena Přibylová and Lucie Uhlíková, 145-50. Náměšt nad Oslavou: Municipal Cultural Center, 2018. Weblink: folkoveprazdniny.cz Description: Offered as a companion to a Dálava performance that occurred at the 2018 iteration of the Folk Holidays Festival, this essay posits the body as a receptacle of […]