Musicalische Friedens-Freud: the Westphalian Peace and Music in Protestant Nuremberg
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: Rethinking Europe: War and Peace in the Early Modern German Lands, edited by Gerhild Scholz Williams, Sigrun Haude and Christian Schneider, 277-99. Chloe 48. Leiden: Brill, 2019. Weblink: https://go.exlibris.link/FYz6Jw52
Timely Negotiations: Formative Interactions in Cyclic Duets
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Analytical Approaches to World Music 7, no. 1 (2019) Weblink: https://aawmjournal.com Abstract: Susanne Fürniss’s (2006) magisterial survey of Aka polyphony analyzes a remarkable duet in which each singer draws material from a regularly repeating cycle but varies it on the fly to complement her partner’s likewise varying repetitions. This texture […]
Naming and Singing the Psalter in Counter-Reformation Germany
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: In Names and Naming in Early Modern Germany, edited by Joel F. Harrington and Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, 87-108. New York, Oxford: Berghahn, 2019. Weblink: https://go.exlibris.link/tH46cDHx
That’s All It Does: Steve Reich and Balinese Gamelan
Author: Tenzer, Michael Publication details: Rethinking Reich, edited by Sumanth Gopinath and Pwyll ap Siôn, 303-322. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Weblink: https://oxfordscholarship.com Abstract: Though integral to his formation as a composer, Steve Reich’s studies of Balinese gamelan have been overlooked. In part this is because of a certain redundancy: features of Balinese overlap […]
Lutheranism and Calvinism
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: The Cambridge History of Sixteenth-Century Music, edited by Iain Fenlon and Richard Wistreich, 56-91. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019 Weblink: https://go.exlibris.link/JPXNDv0n
Korea and the Western Drumset: Scattering Rhythms
Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: Asian Ethnology 78, no. 2 (2019): 515-517. Weblink: https://jstor.org Abstract: This book is an exciting new addition to the growing body of academic literature written about non-Western influences on the Western drumset by an active practitioner. Simon Barker, a lecturer in jazz studies at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University […]
Repeated Borrowing: The Case of “Es ist genug”
Author: Metzer, David Publications details: Journal of the American Musicological Society 71, no. 3 (2018): 703-748. Weblink: http://jams.ucpress.edu Abstract: “Repeated borrowing” refers to the incorporation of elements of a preexisting work in several new compositions. While various studies have focused on songs that have been frequently borrowed, such as “L’homme armé” and “Apache,” they have not considered […]
Rossini’s Operas in Vienna and the Politics of Translation, 1816-1822
Author: Vellutini, Claudio Publication details: “Rossini’s Operas in Vienna and the Politics of Translation, 1816-1822.” In Gioachino Rossini 1868-2018: La musica e il mondo, edited by Ilaria Narici, Emilio Sala, Emanuele Senici, and Benjamin Walton, 337-55. Pesaro: Fondazione Rossini, 2018.
Tapping to Carter: Mensural Determinacy in Complex Rhythmic Sequences
Author: Poudrier, Ève Publication details: “Tapping to Carter: Mensural Determinacy in Complex Rhythmic Sequences.” Empirical Musicology Review 12, no. 3-4 (2018): 277-315. Weblink: http://emusicology.org/ Abstract: The tapping paradigm has played an important role in formulating beat induction models. However, experimental studies that make use of actual music as source materials to investigate pulse finding mechanisms […]
The Essence and Evolution of Song
Author: Vladimír Úlehla. Translated by Julia Ulehla. Edited by Katherine Freeze and Richard K. Wolf Publication details: Ethnomusicology Translations, Number 7, 2018, pp. 1-136. Weblink: scholarworks.iu.edu Description: Vladimír Úlehla (1888-1947) uses his expertise in the biological sciences to perform an in-depth and ecologically situated study of folk songs from his native Czechoslovakia. His posthumous magnum opus […]