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That’s All It Does: Steve Reich and Balinese Gamelan

Author: Tenzer, Michael Publication details: Rethinking Reich, edited by Sumanth Gopinath and Pwyll ap Siôn, 303-322. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Weblink: https://oxfordscholarship.com Abstract: Though integral to his formation as a composer, Steve Reich’s studies of Balinese gamelan have been overlooked. In part this is because of a certain redundancy: features of Balinese overlap […]

Maestro Media: Harnessing technology in the evolution of the 21st Century ensemble program

Author: Taylor, Robert and Girard, Jonathan Publication details: Presented at College Band Directors National Association Conference at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 21 February, 2019. Abstract: Technology can facilitate collaborative learning, raise performance standards, and increase external visibility immensely. We will discuss strategies for using virtual learning enhance learning and expand creative potential. Whether a […]

Lutheranism and Calvinism

Lutheranism and Calvinism

  Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: The Cambridge History of Sixteenth-Century Music, edited by Iain Fenlon and Richard Wistreich, 56-91. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019 Weblink:  https://go.exlibris.link/JPXNDv0n

Korea and the Western Drumset: Scattering Rhythms

Korea and the Western Drumset: Scattering Rhythms

Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: Asian Ethnology 78, no. 2 (2019): 515-517. Weblink: https://jstor.org Abstract: This book is an exciting new addition to the growing body of academic literature written about non-Western influences on the Western drumset by an active practitioner. Simon Barker, a lecturer in jazz studies at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University […]

Reference and Mosaic Form in Peter-Jan Wagemans’ Opera Legende

Author: Top, Edward Publication details: “Reference and Mosaic Form in Peter-Jan Wagemanss Opera Legende.” Tijdschrift Van De Koninklijke Vereniging Voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis 59, no. 2 (2009): 157-84. Weblink: https://www.jstor.org Abstract: The three pillars of Wagemans’s aesthetic, as he outlined in a 1994 publication by Donemus, are recollection, association and quality. In Adorno’s view, expression had […]

Life Has Loveliness

Composer: Stephen Chatman Text author: Sara Teasdale Publisher: Galaxy Music Corporation Purchase

Six Preludes

Composer: Stephen Chatman Publisher: Galaxy Music Corporation PDF

Repeated Borrowing: The Case of “Es ist genug”

Repeated Borrowing: The Case of “Es ist genug”

Author: Metzer, David Publications details: Journal of the American Musicological Society 71, no. 3 (2018): 703-748. Weblink: http://jams.ucpress.edu Abstract: “Repeated borrowing” refers to the incorporation of elements of a preexisting work in several new compositions. While various studies have focused on songs that have been frequently borrowed, such as “L’homme armé” and “Apache,” they have not considered […]

Rossini’s Operas in Vienna and the Politics of Translation, 1816-1822

Author: Vellutini, Claudio Publication details: “Rossini’s Operas in Vienna and the Politics of Translation, 1816-1822.” In Gioachino Rossini 1868-2018: La musica e il mondo, edited by Ilaria Narici, Emilio Sala, Emanuele Senici, and Benjamin Walton, 337-55. Pesaro: Fondazione Rossini, 2018.

Tapping to Carter: Mensural Determinacy in Complex Rhythmic Sequences

Author: Poudrier, Ève Publication details: “Tapping to Carter: Mensural Determinacy in Complex Rhythmic Sequences.” Empirical Musicology Review 12, no. 3-4 (2018): 277-315. Weblink: http://emusicology.org/ Abstract: The tapping paradigm has played an important role in formulating beat induction models. However, experimental studies that make use of actual music as source materials to investigate pulse finding mechanisms […]