Comparing Musical Cycles Across the World
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Presented at the Eastman Theory Colloquium at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, 30 March 2018. Weblink: https://www.esm.rochester.edu Abstract: Growing interest in world-music analysis has highlighted the challenges, long recognized by ethnomusicologists, of comparing music from different cultures on the basis of their divergent indigenous conceptions. Yet, […]
Comparing Musical Cycles Across the World
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Presented at the 2018 Rocky Mountain Music Scholars Conference in Tucson, Arizona, 24 March 2018. Weblink: https://music.arizona.edu Abstract: Growing interest in world-music analysis has highlighted the challenges, long recognized by ethnomusicologists, of comparing music from different cultures on the basis of their divergent indigenous conceptions. Yet, in today’s free-for-all sonic […]
Ballads: A History of Emotions in Popular Culture
Author: Metzer, David Publication details: Presented at South By Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, 17 March 2018. Weblink: https://schedule.sxsw.com Abstract: Ballads tell us much about how feelings are understood and experienced in popular culture at particular moments. In my book The Ballad in American Popular Music: From Elvis to Beyoncé, a larger historical development emerges: […]
The African Imagination in Music. By Kofi Agawu
Author: Roeder, John Article: Music Theory Spectrum 40, no. 1 (Spring 2018): 154–159. Weblink: https://academic.oup.com Abstract: The author aims not only to scrutinize the continent’s rich musical practices, but also to confound entrenched prejudices and to promote a deeper appreciation of its musicians’ creativity and expression. While he takes measure of African imagination partly in […]
Fanny Tacchinardi-Persiani, Carlo Balocchino, and Italian Opera Business in Vienna, Paris, and London (1837-1845)
Author: Vellutini, Claudio Publication details: “Fanny Tacchinardi-Persiani, Carlo Balocchino, and Italian Opera Business in Vienna, Paris, and London (1837-1845).” Cambridge Opera Journal 30, nn. 2-3 (2018): 259–304. Weblink: https://cambridge.org Abstract: This article addresses several historiographical questions about narratives of nineteenth-century Italian opera by discussing the international career of prima donna Fanny Tacchinardi-Persiani during the 1830s […]
Post-Tonal Solmization for Post-Tonal Aural Skills: Implementing Ordered Pitch-Class Intervals
Author: Robert Komaniecki with David Geary Publication details:Music Theory Pedagogy Online, Volume 31 Weblink: jmtp.appstate.edu Abstract: Scholarship regarding solmization systems is largely limited to tonal methods. The present article extends the discussion to post-tonal aural skills, citing the need for a separate, interval-based methodology that fulfills the same functional role for atonal repertoire as scale-degree […]
Analyzing Collaborative Flow in Rap Music
Author: Robert Komaniecki Publication details: Society for Music Theory, Volume 23, Number 4, December 2017 Weblink: mtosmt.org Abstract: This article is a study of the ways in which collaboration is signaled in the delivery of rap lyrics. I begin by describing the importance and prevalence of unified flow in music released by rap groups during […]
Interactions of Folk Melody and Transformational (Dis)continuities in Chen Yi’s Ba Ban
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Presented at the Society for Music Theory 40th Annual Meeting in Arlington, Virginia, 3 November 2017 Weblink: https://societymusictheory.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 […]
How to Create Meter and Why
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Presented at the Society for Music Theory 40th Annual Meeting in Arlington, Virginia, 3 November 2017 Weblink: https://societymusictheory.org
Harpocrates at Work: How the God of Silence Protected Eighteenth-Century French Iconoclasts
Author: Law, Hedy Publication details: The Oxford Handbook of Music Censorship, edited by Patricia Hall. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017. Weblink: http://oxfordhandbooks.com Abstract: This article examines music censorship in the Old Regime France by focusing on the politics of theater. More specifically, it analyzes the politics of silence in eighteenth-century pantomime, a type […]