Music and Sound Studies

Formative Processes of Durational Projection in “Free Rhythm” World Music

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)

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 […]

Musicalische Friedens-Freud: the Westphalian Peace and Music in Protestant Nuremberg

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

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

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

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 […]