This contribution focuses on strategies to bridge what in anthropology is called ontological incommensurability: Indigenous worlds often seem inaccessible to modern thought. Instead of trying to open Indigenous worlds to Westerners, I rather intend to make Western worlds accessible to Indigenous thought; and likewise, academic disciplines…[Read more]

A comprehensive list of books, articles, theses, and other material covering the brass band movement, its history, instruments and musicology; together with other related topics (originally issued in book form in January 2009. [c. 12, 710 entries]

A theological biography of Michael Sattler and an examination of some of his final written correspondence prior to his execution. Sattler’s biography was particularly influential because of its unique circulation and historical reception.

The celebration of the “Beethoven Year” in Madrid in 1927 resulted in a whole series of celebrations of all kinds that extended throughout that emblematic year to honour the German composer. This resulted in the public performance of numerous concerts by Madrid’s leading orchestral and choral groups, including the Orquesta Filarmónica de Madrid,…[Read more]

This article focuses on the study of the different musical periods that make up the Modern Age in Europe, taking into account from a critical point of view the current state of the art in bibliography. Each period is previously defined according to the chronological problem and according to its technical, aesthetic and stylistic characteristics.

How do we know if animals can think? In extension of the previous debate on human-animal relations, this book analyzes the conditions and contexts of the scientific acquisition of our knowledge of animals. The current discussions within animal philosophy revolve around the three central questions of whether we can attribute a mind to animals, what…[Read more]

In current debates about the relationships between humans and nonhuman animals, knowledge about animals is often adopted from the sciences. However, this largely ignores the fact that relationships of this kind also exist in empirical animal research and that these constellations between researchers and the researched have both ethical and…[Read more]

Article about the biography and musical output of the Italian composer Doomenico Scarlatti

Study on the personal and artistic career of the master from Lleida, José Cortasa Rives, chapel master of the Collegiate Church of Santa María la Mayor de Talaveta de la Reina.

The importance of this publication lies in the recovery and study of a musical heritage of extraordinary quality: unpublished musical works by the masters of the Royal Chapel of Madrid, the most important centre in Spain at the time, which until now had slept the sleep of oblivion. In addition to the musical transcriptions, this contribution is…[Read more]

This is the first monographic work to be published on one of the most important musical centres and chapels in the Valencian Community: the cathedral of Segorbe, which until now had not been researched. Thanks to the work carried out in the archives of the cathedral on the chapter minutes, factory books and other unpublished documentation, it has…[Read more]

Animal welfare and animal rights issues have reached the curricula, agendas and priorities of a wide range of educational institutions and initiatives. Their actors are faced with the challenge of not only explaining the relevance of animal ethics and animal rights, but also conceptualising how to teach them: How can animal protection and animal…[Read more]

Dictionary articles in Lexicon about women musicians

This book was the result of the Prize ‘X Premio-Beca Serapio Múgica’, awarded in 2008 on a competitive basis by the City Council of Irún to develop the research project ‘La música en Irún en el siglo XIX: La capilla de música de la Iglesia de Santa María del Juncal’ (Music in Irún in the 19th century: The music chapel of the Church of Santa María…[Read more]

Because of its material characteristics, the sonic poses a challenge to the influential paradigm of religion as mediation. This article makes a case for a neo-phenomenological analytic of atmospheres in order to do justice to the sonic in anthropological approaches to religion. Approaching the sonic as atmospheric half-things, I propose a…[Read more]

Because of its material characteristics, the sonic poses a challenge to the influential paradigm of religion as mediation. This article makes a case for a neo-phenomenological analytic of atmospheres in order to do justice to the sonic in anthropological approaches to religion. Approaching the sonic as atmospheric half-things, I propose a…[Read more]

Because of its material characteristics, the sonic poses a challenge to the influential paradigm of religion as mediation. This article makes a case for a neo-phenomenological analytic of atmospheres in order to do justice to the sonic in anthropological approaches to religion. Approaching the sonic as atmospheric half-things, I propose a…[Read more]

In this essay I focus on language among people of South Asian background in a diasporic location, Mauritius, for two reasons. First, language has often been considered as one of the cultural elements whose persistence may yield clues about the production of diasporic identity. However, diasporas do not exist objectively on the basis of a…[Read more]

Journal article about the organization of the music chapel at the royal monastery Descalzas in Madrid during the 18th century

Study about the construction of organs in North Spain by Cavaillé-Coll (19th century)