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 […]
Human-technology interfaces with the tactile metronome
Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 144, no. 3 (2018): 1891-1891. Weblink: https://asa.scitation.org Abstract: The story of the metronome is the story of humankind coming to terms with evolving conceptions of time and coordination as mediated through technologies of the modern age. What began as a tool for […]