Music and Sound Studies

Pungmul and Samulnori

Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: Music of Korea, ed. Byong Won Lee and Yongshik Lee, 93-104. Korean Musicology Series 1. Seoul: National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts, 2007

‘Per mia particolare devotione’: Orlando di Lasso’s Lagrime di San Pietro and Jesuit Spirituality in Counter-Reformation Munich

‘Per mia particolare devotione’: Orlando di Lasso’s Lagrime di San Pietro and Jesuit Spirituality in Counter-Reformation Munich

Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: Journal of the Royal Musical Association 132 (2007): 167–220 Weblink: http://www.jstor.org

Taking Culture Seriously: Democratic Music and its Transformative Potential in South Korea

Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: The World of Music 49, no. 3 (2007): 75-106. Weblink: https://jstor.org Abstract: This article outlines my personal search for a working theory of democratic music in the context of South Korean folk drumming and dance (p’ungmul). Motivated by the call of Korean political theorists and folklorists of the late twentieth century for […]

Music and Religious Change

Music and Religious Change

Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: Reform and Expansion, 1500–1660, edited by R. Po-Chia Hsia. The Cambridge History of Christianity 6. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Weblink:  https://go.exlibris.link/7P3HMLWY Abstract: Between the beginning of the Lutheran Reformation and the end of the Thirty Years’ War sacred music in early modern Europe underwent several waves of transformation, responding partly […]

Co-operating Continuities in the Music of Thomas Adès

Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Music Analysis 25/1-2: 125-154 Weblink: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com Abstract: Jonathan Kramer defined postmodern music as an ironic, fragmentary mix of past and present compositional procedures embodying multiple temporal dimensions. Recent theorising grounded in phenomenological and cognitive-scientific accounts of musical experience suggests that it may be possible to develop a more insightful interpretative perspective by extending Kramer’s […]

Triadic Transformation and Parsimonious Voice Leading in Some Interesting Passages by Gavin Bryars

Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Intégral 20:43-67 Weblink: https://www.jstor.org

Autonomy and Dialog in Elliott Carter’s ‘Enchanted Preludes

Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Analytical Studies in World Music. Ed. Michael Tenzer. New York: Oxford. Weblink: http://www.oxfordscholarship.com Abstract: This chapter provides a detailed examination of a contemporary chamber work by a celebrated American composer, with: Social and Artistic Context; One Composer’s Response; Sources of Autonomy: Definitions; Textural Overview; Pitch-Interval Dialogue; Deepening Engagements; and Closure.

Co-operating Continuities in the Music of Thomas Adès

Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Music Analysis 25/1-2: 125-154 Weblink: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com Abstract: Jonathan Kramer defined postmodern music as an ironic, fragmentary mix of past and present compositional procedures embodying multiple temporal dimensions. Recent theorising grounded in phenomenological and cognitive-scientific accounts of musical experience suggests that it may be possible to develop a more insightful interpretative perspective by extending Kramer’s […]

Analytical Studies in World Music

Author: Tenzer, Michael Publication details: New York: Oxford. 434 pages. Weblink: https://global.oup.com

P’ungmul: Han’guk ŭi puk nori-wa ch’um (P’ungmul: South Korean Drumming and Dance)

Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: Chicago Series in Ethnomusicology. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2006. [Winner of 2008 Lee Hye-gu Award, Korean Musicological Society] Weblink: http://press.uchicago.edu Abstract: Composed of a core set of two drums and two gongs, p’ungmul is a South Korean tradition of rural folk percussion. Steeped in music, dance, theater, and pageantry, but centrally focused on rhythm, […]