The cognitive and affective correlates of rhythmic complexity
Authors: Poudrier, Ève, Sapp, C.S., Shanahan, D Publication details: ICMPC ESCOM 2021: Connectivity and diversity in music cognition, 28-31 July 2021 Weblink: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hCtYDdTHfb3Txo2ryT1ZS2JzL8tT5I6U/view and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8lk36AlfPY Abstract: The goal of the present study is to identify the cognitive and affective correlates of rhythmic complexity. Specifically, we hypothesize that there is a relationship between the structural features that […]
Out in Front: Queer Identity and Visibility in the Wind Band
Author: Taylor, Robert Book: The Horizon Leans Forward: Stories of Courage, Strength, and Triumph of Underrepresented Communities in the Wind Band Field Publisher: GIA Publications Weblink: https://www.giamusic.com/ Abstract: At a time when the calls for diversity, equity, and inclusion are stronger and more important than ever, The Horizon Leans Forward . . . amplifies the […]
Rhythmic Techniques in Deaf Hip Hop
Author: Robert Komaniecki with Anabel Maler Publication details: Society for Music Theory, Volume 27, Number 1, March 2021 Weblink: mtosmt.org Abstract:The art of signed music involves the use of rhythmicized signs from a signed language, such as American Sign Language (ASL), in a musical context. Signed music encompasses a variety of subgenres, including ASL hip […]
Bells
Author: Fisher, Alexander Book: Information: A Historical Companion Publication details: Princeton University Press. Edited by Ann Blair, Paul Duguid, Anja-Silvia Goeing, and Anthony Grafton. Weblink: https://press.princeton.edu/ Abstract: Thanks to modern technological advances, we now enjoy seemingly unlimited access to information. Yet how did information become so central to our everyday lives, and how did its processing […]
Die Soundscape der spätmittelalterlichen Stadt
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: Musikleben in der Renaissance. Zwischen Alltag und Fest. Teilband II: Räume der Musik, edited by Wolfgang Fuhrmann, 131-42. Lilienthal: Laaber, 2021 Weblink: https://laaber-verlag.de/
Prisoners’ Voices: Frederic Rzewski’s Coming Together and Attica
Author: Metzer, David Publication details: Journal of Musicology (2021) 38 (1): 109–139. Weblink: https://online.ucpress.edu/ Abstract: Frederic Rzewski composed Coming Together and Attica in response to the 1971 uprising at the Attica Correctional Facility. The texts for the works draw upon testimonies of two men who participated in the riot: Samuel Melville and Richard X. Clark, […]
Vocal Pitch in Rap Flow
Author: Robert Komaniecki Publication details: INTÉGRAL The Journal of Applied Musical Thought, Volume 34 Weblink: esm.rochester.edu Abstract: In this article, I argue that pitch plays an important role in the structure and delivery of rap flows. I demonstrate the ways in which rappers manipulate pitch to create a structural parameter that can operate independently from […]
Lacrumae Divae Virginis et Joannis in Christum a cruce depositum (Tears of the Blessed Virgin and John at the Deposition of Christ from the Cross)
Editor: Fisher, Alexander Score: Lacrumae Divae Virginis et Joannis in Christum a cruce depositum (Tears of the Blessed Virgin and John at the Deposition of Christ from the Cross) by Gregor Aichinger Publication details: A-R Editions, Inc. Weblink: https://www.areditions.com/ Abstract: The Lacrumae Divae Virginis et Joannis in Christum a cruce depositum (Tears of the Blessed […]
Interactions of Folk Melody and Transformational (Dis)continuities in Chen Yi’s Ba Ban (1999)
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Music Theory Online, Vol. 26 No. 3, 2020 Weblink: https://www.mtosmt.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 transformation theory. The eponymous folk tune that it […]
Die Teutsche Nation: Musical Links between the Habsburg Courts and the German States of the Empire
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: A Companion to Music at the Habsburg Courts in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, edited by Andrew W. Weaver, 467-98. Leiden: Brill, 2020 Weblink: https://go.exlibris.link/BWxTBJxH