Music and Sound Studies

Transformation in Post-Tonal Music

Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Oxford Handbooks Online in Music, ed. Alexander Rehding.  New York: Oxford University Press Weblink: http://oxfordhandbooks.com Abstract: Post-tonal music (loosely, most Western art-music compositions since the turn of the 20th century) manifests many organizational techniques but not the processes of harmony and counterpoint that direct and articulate time in tonal music. Of the diverse […]

The Ethnomusicologist as Composer

Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: Music and Culture 31:31-44 (2014)

Adina par excellence: Eugenia Tadolini and the Performing Tradition of Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore in Vienna

Author: Vellutini, Claudio Publication details: Nineteenth-Century Music 38, no. 1 (2014): 3-29 Weblink: http://ncm.ucpress.edu Abstract: Gaetano Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore was subjected to a series of substantial modifications after its premiere in 1832. In this article I focus on the performing tradition of the opera in Vienna. The history of these performances and their reception allow us to examine […]

Music, Piety, and Propaganda: The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria

Music, Piety, and Propaganda: The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria

Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: The New Cultural History of Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Weblink:  https://global.oup.com Abstract: Music, Piety, and Propaganda: The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria explores the nature of sound as a powerful yet ambivalent force in the religious struggles that permeated Germany during the Counter-Reformation. Author Alexander J. Fisher goes beyond a […]

Beopgo Changshin: New Music for Samul nori

Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: Musicology in Korea, ed. Kim Sejung, 495-507. Seoul: Minsogwŏn, 2014

A Geometry of Music: Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice

Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Journal of Music Theory 57, no. 1 (2013): 159–191 Weblink: https://dukeupress.edu

Can musicians track two different beats simultaneously?

Author: Poudrier, Ève, Repp, B.H. Publication details: Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal 30, no. 4 (2013): 369-90. Weblink: http://cogsys.ubc.ca Abstract: The simultaneous presence of different meters is not uncommon in Western art music and the music of various non-Western cultures. However, it is unclear how listeners and performers deal with this situation, and whether it is […]