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 […]
The Ballad in American Popular Music: From Elvis to Beyoncé
Author: Metzer, David Publication details: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Weblink: https://cambridge.org Abstract: While ballads have been a cornerstone of popular music for decades, this is the first book to explore the history and appeal of these treasured songs. David Metzer investigates how and why the styles of ballads have changed over a period of more […]
Everything in its Right Place: Analyzing Radiohead by Brad Osborn
Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: Popular Music 36, no. 3 (2017): 446-48. Weblink: https://cambridge.org
And You, Dear Eagle, Have You Seen My Cows? Reflections of Moravian Song in North American Indigenous Spaces
Author: Julia Ulehla Publication details: In From Folklore to World Music: Reflections, edited by Irena Přibylová and Lucie Uhlíková, 119-31. Náměšt nad Oslavou: Municipal Cultural Center, 2017. Weblink: folkoveprazdniny.cz Description: According to mythologist Martin Shaw, folk tales are not the “penned agenda of one brainrattled individual” who employs “the most succulent portions of the human imagination” to author […]
‘Mit singen und klingen’: Urban Processional Culture and the Soundscapes of Post-Reformation Germany
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: “‘Mit singen und klingen’: Urban Processional Culture and the Soundscapes of Post-Reformation Germany”. In Listening to Early Modern Catholicism, ed. Daniele V. Filippi and Michael Noone, 187-203. Leiden: Brill, 2017. Weblink: https://brill.com