Transformational Aspects of Arvo Pärt’s Tintinnabuli Music
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Journal of Music Theory 55, no. 1 (April 01. 2011): 1-41. Weblink: http://jmt.dukejournals.org/content/55/1/1 Abstract: Arvo Pärt’s strict and elemental compositional procedures, which have been described and evaluated critically by several scholars, are here expressed via a mathematical formalism drawn from theories of musical transformations. The analytical opportunities that this perspective provides are […]
Rhythm and Folk Drumming (P’ungmul) as the Musical Embodiment of Communal Consciousness in South Korean Village Society
Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: Analytical and Cross-Cultural Studies in World Music, edited by Michael Tenzer and John Roeder, 263-87. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Weblink: http://oxfordindex.com Abstract: This chapter suggests the musical means by which rhythm and folk drumming embody and recreate what South Korean folklorists and anthropologists have identified in traditional village society […]
Anerca: Representations of Inuit Poetry in Late 20th-Century Art Music
Author: Laurel Parsons Publication details: “Anerca: Representations of Inuit Poetry in Late 20th-Century Art Music.” Arctic Discourses. Edited by Anka Ryall, Johan Schimanski, and Henning Howlid Wærp. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010. Weblink: www.cambridgescholars.com Description: Both fictional and non-fictional accounts of the Arctic have long been a major source of powerful images of the […]
Themes of Exile and (Re-)Enclosure in Music for the Franciscan Convents of Counter-Reformation Munich during the Thirty Years War
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: Enduring Loss in Early Modern Germany: Cross Disciplinary Perspectives, edited by Lynne Tatlock, 281-305. Leiden: Brill, 2010. Weblink: https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004184541.i-478.39 Abstract: This anthology assembles cross-disciplinary perspectives on the experience of and responses to forms of material and spiritual loss in early modern Germany, tracing how individuals and communities registered, coped with, and […]
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 […]
Early Music and the Ambivalent Origins of Elisabeth Lutyens’s Modernism.
Author: Laurel Parsons Publication details: “Early Music and the Ambivalent Origins of Elisabeth Lutyens’s Modernism.” British Music and Modernism, 1895–1960. Edited by Matthew Riley. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010. Weblink: www.taylorfrancis.com Abstract: The English imagination takes the form of a ring or circle. It is endless because it has no beginning and no end; it moves backwards as […]
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 […]