Music and Sound Studies

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, […]

‘The Formation of Namsadang (Korean Itinerant Performer) Troupes’: Chapter One A Study of Namsadang Troupes

Translated, edited, and with an Introduction by: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: Acta Koreana 9.2:31-57 (2006) Weblink: www.earticle.net

La conservazione a lungo termine dell’autenticitá di composizioni digitali interattive: la ricerce di InterPARES 2

Author: Roeder, John and Duranti, Luciana Publication details: Archivi e Computer 15/3: 45-62 Weblink: http://www.interpares.org

Introduction

Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: Wagner’s Lexical Tonality, Jonathan Petty, i-iii. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005 Weblink: www.amazon.com Abstract: This book re-theorizes Wagner’s post-Opera and Drama tonal language in the linguistic terms in which the composer himself conceived and executed the “Ring of the Nibelung and Parsifal”. Topics include Wagner’s lexical use of key; the composition of […]

Salminger, Sigmund

Salminger, Sigmund

  Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 2d ed., Personenteil 14:867–8. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2005. Weblink: www.abebooks.com

Rhythmic Process and Form in Bartók’s ‘Syncopation’

Author: Roeder, John Publication details: College Music Symposium, Vol. 44 (2004), pp. 43-57 Weblink: http://www.jstor.org