Music and Sound Studies

José Maceda and the Paradoxes of Modern Composition in Southeast Asia

Author: Tenzer, Michael Publication details: Ethnomusicology 47/1: 93-120 Weblink: http://www.jstor.org

Kil kunak ch’ilch’ae (Seven-Stroke Road Military Music) Rhythmic Pattern: P’ungmul and the Bridging of the North-South Divide

Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: Tongyang ŭmak [Asian Music] 25:111-27 (2003)

The Craft of Hybrid Composition: Meter, Tonality, and Grouping in Michael Torke’s ‘Adjustable Wrench’

Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Perspectives of New Music 41/2: 120-158. Weblink: https://www.jstor.org

Beat-Class Modulation in Steve Reich’s Music

Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Music Theory Spectrum 25/2: 275 – 304 Weblink: http://www.jstor.org Abstract: A beat-class model of rhythm, employed by Cohn and others to analyze textural form in Steve Reich’s early phase-shifting compositions, is here enlarged to embrace the concepts of beat-class “tonic” and “mode,” defined formally by analogy to pitch-class tonality. Using these concepts, analyses […]

“Fugger” [family of bankers and music patrons]

“Fugger” [family of bankers and music patrons]

  Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 2d ed., Personenteil 7:246–52. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2002. Weblink: www.abebooks.com

Edition of Rudolph di Lasso, Virginalia Eucharistica

Edition of Rudolph di Lasso, Virginalia Eucharistica

  Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: (Munich: Nikolaus Heinrich, 1615). Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era 114. Madison, Wisc.: A-R Editions, 2002. Weblink: https://www.areditions.com

Modernization, Urbanization, and the Re-emergence of the Professional Korean Folk Musician

Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: Han’guk ŭmaksa hakpo [Journal of the Society for Korean Historico-Musicology] 29:519-49 (2002)

Narratives of Middle Eastern Music History

Narratives of Middle Eastern Music History

Author: Fisher, Alexander and Dr. Virginia Danielson Publication details: The Middle East, 15–27. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music 6. New York: Routledge Reference, 2002. Weblink: https://www.routledge.com/The-Garland-Encyclopedia-of-World-Music-The-Middle-East/Danielson-Reynolds-Marcus/  

Song, Confession, and Criminality: Trial Records as Sources for Popular Musical Culture in Early Modern Europe

Song, Confession, and Criminality: Trial Records as Sources for Popular Musical Culture in Early Modern Europe

Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: Journal of Musicology 18, no. 4 (Fall 2001): 616–57 Weblink: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/jm.2001.18.4.616 Abstract In the late 16th and early 17th centuries, the city government of Augsburg, Germany, struggled to maintain religious peace as the confessional boundaries between its Catholic and Protestant communities hardened. As tensions gradually rose, city officials feared and scrutinized the disruptive […]

Pulse Streams and Problems of Grouping and Metrical Dissonance in Bartók’s “With Drums and Pipes”

Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Music Theory Online 7, no. 1 (2001) Weblink: http://mtosmt.org Abstract: Polyphony has many interesting rhythmic properties that do not obtain in textures that are modeled by most rhythmic theories. This paper invokes the concept of pulse streams to demonstrate how phenomenal accent and grouping are organized in a extended two-voice polyphony by Bartók […]