Music and Sound Studies

Alls wie mann inn krieg pflegt zue thuen: Music and Catholic Processions in Counter-Reformation Augsburg

Alls wie mann inn krieg pflegt zue thuen: Music and Catholic Processions in Counter-Reformation Augsburg

Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: City Limits: Perspectives on the Historical European City, edited by Glenn Clark, et al., 254-72. Montréal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2010. Weblink: https://go.exlibris.link/MGCKKm2c Abstract: Deals with the aspects of city life in the European centres such as London, Paris, Augsburg, Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Edinburgh. Covering topics such as governance, performance, high culture […]

Edition of Anton Holzner, Viretum pierium

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 […]

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 […]

‘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 […]

Part Three—Authenticity, Reliability and Accuracy of Digital Records in the Artistic, Scientific and Governmental Sectors: Domain 2 Task Force Report

Author: Roeder, John, Eppard, Philip, Underwood, William, and Lauriault, Tracey Publication details: International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems (InterPARES 2): Experiential, Interactive and Dynamic Records, Luciana Duranti and Randy Preston, eds., 139-186. Padova, Italy: Associazione Nazionale Archivistica Italiana. Weblink: http://www.interpares.org