Research Area

Coming to the City: SamulNori and 1970s’ Korean Music Culture

Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: Mandang Yi Hyegu paksa paeksu songch’uk nonmunjip (Essays on Music Offered to Dr. Lee Hye-ku in Honor of His Hundredth Birthday), ed. Hwang Junyeon et al, 661-91. Seoul: Minsogwŏn, 2008.

A transformational space for Elliott Carter’s recent complement-union music

Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS). Vol. 37, pp. 300-307 Weblink: http://download.springer.com Abstract:  Elliott Carter’s recent music exploits a special combinatorial property of the all-trichord hexachord. I show how this property can be reconceived in terms of interesting and analytically significant musical transformations: three involutions on the pitch-class aggregate which constitute a […]

Elliott Carter: A centennial portrait in letters and documents

Author: Poudrier, Ève Publication details: Journal of the Society for American Music (2010) Volume 4, Number 1. Pp. 104–110 Weblink: https://www.cambridge.org

Vincent d’Indy’s theory of rhythm in the Cours de composition musicale (1902-1950): Sources, Reception, and Legacy

Author: Poudrier, Ève Presentation details: Joint Conference of the American Musicological Society (AMS) and Society for Music Theory (SMT), Nashville (TN), 7 November 2008

Combinatorial Modeling in the Chorus Movement of Cantata 24, Ein ungefärbt Gemüte.”

Combinatorial Modeling in the Chorus Movement of Cantata 24, Ein ungefärbt Gemüte.”

Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: About Bach, edited by Gregory G. Butler, Mary Dalton Greer, and George B. Stauffer, 35–52. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008. Weblink: https://go.exlibris.link/sGfYpfmy Abstract: That Johann Sebastian Bach is a pivotal figure in the history of Western music is hardly news, and the magnitude of his achievement is so […]

Review of Franck Jedrzejewski’s Mathematical Theory of Music

Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Journal of Mathematics and Music 1/3: 191-198 Weblink: http://www.tandfonline.com

SamulNori, Wŏn-Pang-Kak, and Cosmological Didacticism

Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: Yearbook for Traditional Music 39:140-61 (2007) Weblink: www.jstor.org

Pungmul and Samulnori

Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: Music of Korea, ed. Byong Won Lee and Yongshik Lee, 93-104. Korean Musicology Series 1. Seoul: National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts, 2007

‘Per mia particolare devotione’: Orlando di Lasso’s Lagrime di San Pietro and Jesuit Spirituality in Counter-Reformation Munich

‘Per mia particolare devotione’: Orlando di Lasso’s Lagrime di San Pietro and Jesuit Spirituality in Counter-Reformation Munich

Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: Journal of the Royal Musical Association 132 (2007): 167–220 Weblink: http://www.jstor.org

Taking Culture Seriously: Democratic Music and its Transformative Potential in South Korea

Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: The World of Music 49, no. 3 (2007): 75-106. Weblink: https://jstor.org Abstract: This article outlines my personal search for a working theory of democratic music in the context of South Korean folk drumming and dance (p’ungmul). Motivated by the call of Korean political theorists and folklorists of the late twentieth century for […]