Interactions of Folk Melody and Transformational (Dis)continuities in Chen Yi’s Ba Ban (1999)
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Music Theory Online, Vol. 26 No. 3, 2020 Weblink: https://www.mtosmt.org/ Abstract: Chen Yi’s Ba Ban (1999) for solo piano, like many works of Western-trained Chinese composers, situates fragments of evocative traditional folk melody within a post-tonal discourse that is well described by transformation theory. The eponymous folk tune that it […]
Die Teutsche Nation: Musical Links between the Habsburg Courts and the German States of the Empire
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: A Companion to Music at the Habsburg Courts in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, edited by Andrew W. Weaver, 467-98. Leiden: Brill, 2020 Weblink: https://go.exlibris.link/BWxTBJxH
“The Influence of Rate and Accentuation on Subjective Rhythmization”
Author: Poudrier, Ève Publication details: Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2020) 38 (1): 27–45. Weblink: https://online.ucpress.edu/ Abstract: The parsing of undifferentiated tone sequences into groups of qualitatively distinct elements is one of the earliest rhythmic phenomena to have been investigated experimentally (Bolton, 1894). The present study aimed to replicate and extend these findings through online […]
Music, Pantomime and Freedom in Enlightenment France
Author: Law, Hedy Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, 2020 Weblink: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/music-pantomime-and-freedom-in-enlightenment-france Abstract: How did composers and performers use the lost art of pantomime to explore and promote the Enlightenment ideals of free expression?
Donizetti, Vienna, Cosmopolitanism
Author: Vellutini, Claudio Publication details: Journal of the American Musicological Society 73, no. 1 (Spring 2020): 1-52. Weblink: http://jams.ucpress.edu Abstract: This article examines the change in the Viennese reception of Donizetti’s operas in relation to the internationalization of the city’s theatrical life during the last fifteen years of the Metternich regime (1833–48), as well as […]
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Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: A Companion to Late Medieval and Early Modern Augsburg, edited by B. Ann Tlusty and Mark Häberlein, 553–74. Leiden: Brill, 2020. Weblink: https://go.exlibris.link/cDs6Gvvz
Formative Processes of Durational Projection in “Free Rhythm” World Music
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm, edited by Richard Wolf, Stephen Blum, and Christopher Hasty, 55-74. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Weblink: https://www.oxfordscholarship.com Abstract: Recent theories of meter have been enriched by consideration of the time cycles and nonisochronous beats found in many musical cultures. However, these theories do […]
Logic Programming Models of Music: A Semiotic Evaluation
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Perspectives of New Music Vol. 57, No. 1-2, Perspectives on and around John Rahn (Winter/Summer 2019), pp. 375-402 Weblink: https://www.jstor.org/ Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7757/persnewmusi.57.1-2.0375?refreqid=excelsior%3A737216277498eff13493ebc85e955f5e&seq=1
Interpreting the Italian Voice in London (and Elsewhere)
Author: Vellutini, Claudio Publication details: “Interpreting Italian Singing in London (and Elsewhere).” In London Voices, 1820-1840, edited by Roger Parker and Susan Rutherford, 51–69. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. Weblink: https://www.press.uchicago.edu Abstract: An enduring and ever-changing trope, the notion of the “Italian voice” became a contentious subject in the opera discourse […]
Experiencing Resonance as a Practice of Ritual Engagement
Author: Julia Ulehla, Manulani Aluli-Meyer, Delphine Armstrong, Mariel Belanger, Jill Carter, Cori Derickson, Claire Fogal, Vicki Kelly, Carolyn Kenny, Virginie Magnat, Joseph Naytowhow, and Winston Wuttunee Publication details: In Research and Reconciliation: Unsettling Ways of Knowing Through Indigenous Relationships, edited by Shawn Wilson, Adrea V. Breen, and Lindsay Dupré, 157-178. Toronto: Canadian Scholars, 2019 Weblink: ebookcentral.proquest.com Description: In this […]