Die Soundscape der spätmittelalterlichen Stadt
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: Musikleben in der Renaissance. Zwischen Alltag und Fest. Teilband II: Räume der Musik, edited by Wolfgang Fuhrmann, 131-42. Lilienthal: Laaber, 2021 Weblink: https://laaber-verlag.de/
Prisoners’ Voices: Frederic Rzewski’s Coming Together and Attica
Author: Metzer, David Publication details: Journal of Musicology (2021) 38 (1): 109–139. Weblink: https://online.ucpress.edu/ Abstract: Frederic Rzewski composed Coming Together and Attica in response to the 1971 uprising at the Attica Correctional Facility. The texts for the works draw upon testimonies of two men who participated in the riot: Samuel Melville and Richard X. Clark, […]
Vocal Pitch in Rap Flow
Author: Robert Komaniecki Publication details: INTÉGRAL The Journal of Applied Musical Thought, Volume 34 Weblink: esm.rochester.edu Abstract: In this article, I argue that pitch plays an important role in the structure and delivery of rap flows. I demonstrate the ways in which rappers manipulate pitch to create a structural parameter that can operate independently from […]
Lacrumae Divae Virginis et Joannis in Christum a cruce depositum (Tears of the Blessed Virgin and John at the Deposition of Christ from the Cross)
Editor: Fisher, Alexander Score: Lacrumae Divae Virginis et Joannis in Christum a cruce depositum (Tears of the Blessed Virgin and John at the Deposition of Christ from the Cross) by Gregor Aichinger Publication details: A-R Editions, Inc. Weblink: https://www.areditions.com/ Abstract: The Lacrumae Divae Virginis et Joannis in Christum a cruce depositum (Tears of the Blessed […]
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 […]
Music
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