Luther, Martin
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: Oxford Bibliographies in Music, http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com. Published 27 July 2017 Weblink: doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199757824-0220
Composing Citoyennes through Sapho
Author: Law, Hedy Publication details: The Opera Quarterly 32, no. 1 (2016): 5-28. Weblink: https://academic.oup.com
Jonas Losch and Musical Culture in Late Sixteenth-Century Augsburg
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: Zeitschrift des Historischen Vereins für Schwaben 109 (2017): 85-95. Weblink: http://digital.bib-bvb.de/
Music and the Jesuit ‘Way of Proceeding’ in the German Counter-Reformation
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: Journal of Jesuit Studies 3, no. 3 (2016): 377-97 Weblink: https://brill.com Abstract: The present essay considers the Jesuits’ relationship to musical culture along the confessional frontier of Germany, where the immediate presence of religious difference led to an explicit marking of space and boundaries, not least through visual and aural media. […]
Orphée at the Forains: Silencing and Silences in Old Regime France
Author: Lam, Hedy Publication details: Cultural Histories of Noise, Sound and Listening in Europe, 1300-1918, edited by Kirsten Gibson and Ian Biddle, 111-126. London: Routledge, 2017. Weblink: https://taylorfrancis.com Abstract: For Robert Darnton this nursery rhyme bears witness to the fact that the early modern city was noisy. Dogs barked; peddlers shouted; beggars sang. But what […]
Encountering Life in Sound : Affect, Vibration, and the Architecture of Sound (Davala Concert)
Author: Julia Ulehla Publication details: Performance given for a Colloquium of the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. Weblink: library.ubc.ca Description: Concert by the experimental folk band Dálava, given as part of a workshop entitled “Encountering Life in Song: Affect, Vibration, and the Architecture of Sound” by Julia Úlehla. In the workshop recording, Úlehla answers questions from […]
Conjuring Ancestors: Moravian Folklore in the Urban Avant-Garde
Author: Julia Ulehla Publication details: In From Folklore to World Music: In the Beginning There Was…, edited by Irena Přibylová and Lucie Uhlíková, 114-23. Náměšt nad Oslavou: Municipal Cultural Center, 2016. Weblink: folkoveprazdniny.cz Description: This presentation explores the sources, both real and imagined, of a diasporic performance practice/auto-ethnographic research on Moravian folk song. The New York/Vancouver based Dálava […]
Humour in late Debussy: multiple perspectives on “Douze études”
Author: Wong, Lucas Publication details: WONG, LUCAS. “Humour in Late Debussy: Multiple Perspectives on ‘Douze Études.’” The Musical Times 157, no. 1935 (2016): 77–98. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44862507.
Inhabiting or Inhibiting? Physical Expression and Ancillary Movements in Instrumental Music Performance
Author: MacLennan, Scott Publication details:Canadian Music Educator, Vol. 57, Iss. 4, (Summer 2016): 22-27. Weblink: www.proquest.com Abstract: Music theorists have emphasized the intellectual, disembodied mind throughout music education’s history in Western culture extending back to the time of the ancient Greeks. Additionally, Regelski (2009) notes that the dominant and residual view of music curriculum involves […]
This Imaginary Halfe-Nothing
Author: Laurel Parsons Publication details: “‘This Imaginary Halfe-Nothing’: Temporality in Elisabeth Lutyens’s Essence of Our Happinesses.” In Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers. Vol. 3: Concert Music, 1960–2000 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016). 196–220. Weblink: academic.oup.com Description: In Essence of Our Happinesses (1968), a three-movement work for tenor, chorus, and orchestra, Elisabeth Lutyens explores the […]