Elliott Carter once extolled the visceral, primitive effect of Penderecki’s Threnody on untrained listeners. In this article, I examine how a formalized analytical approach to the central section of the piece contributes positively to a phenomenological experience of the whole piece. Part 1 presents an ear-training progression aimed at bringing t…[Read more]

In this article I demonstrate how listeners understand musical processes with their bodies, and how their gestures can be used to build analytical models. Specifically, I draw on the phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty to argue that situated, active listeners project their motor intentional gestures inside music, where they reconstitute the…[Read more]

This article investigates how Gabriele D’Annunzio’s The Triumph of Death brings together Nietzsche’s ideas and Wagner’s music and interweaves them with the motifs of literary Decadence and the author’s own particular sexual politics. The novel is an experimental text striving to be a Gesemtkunstswerk, an integrated work that incorporates music, pa…[Read more]

Composer Donnacha Dennehy could be described as a bi-coastal composer, but in his case that would be the East Coasts of both Ireland and the United States of America. He is known for his work as co-founder of the Crash Ensemble, based in Dublin, and has four collections of his work issued on CDs from Nonesuch, RTE, and NMC. He joined the…[Read more]

Trying to rank Bach’s great moments is like trying to rank miracles in order of impossibility. Yet I’ve caught myself feeling that a moment in the B Minor Mass may be the greatest of all. This short essay, adapted from a chapter in my forthcoming ebook Why Bach?: An Audio-Visual Appreciation, says why. If features highlighted scores that play as a…[Read more]

En el presente ensayo se observará que la recuperación del mito medieval de Fausto cumple con el propósito, no sólo de contar una historia similar a la originada durante el siglo XVI, si- no de contar la propia historia de lo que sucedía durante la época en que fue escrita la novela. Así, Thomas Mann hace uso de la narración testimo…[Read more]

En el presente ensayo se observará que la recuperación del mito medieval de Fausto cumple con el propósito, no sólo de contar una historia similar a la originada durante el siglo XVI, si- no de contar la propia historia de lo que sucedía durante la época en que fue escrita la novela. Así, Thomas Mann hace uso de la narración testimo…[Read more]

The development of the Portuguese entertainment market and the rise of several types of musical theatre are inextricably bound to the complex symbolic and material process through which Portugal was established, presented, developed, and commodified as a modern nation-state between 1865 and 1908. During this period, several fundamental…[Read more]

The development of the Portuguese entertainment market and the rise of several types of musical theatre are inextricably bound to the complex symbolic and material process through which Portugal was established, presented, developed, and commodified as a modern nation-state between 1865 and 1908. During this period, several fundamental…[Read more]

Part One of this study seeks to define the nature of Spanish and Italian printed keyboard sources in the 16th and 17th centuries. In Chapter two, seven Spanish keyboard prints or theoretical works are examined, dating from 1546 to 1626. These works clearly state a conception of the ideals of keyboard playing; they also show the beginnings of a…[Read more]

Ghettoized Languages: Theresienstadt as Czech-German ‘Coerced Community’
(referring to Adler’s book “Theresienstadt 1941-1945; The Face of a Coerced Community”)
1. Theresienstadts Festungen: Von der josephinischen Architektur zum Militärgefängnis und nationalsozialistischen „Ghetto“
2. Nationen im „Ghetto”
3. Zum Begriff der „Zwangsgemein…[Read more]

Ghettoized Languages: Theresienstadt as Czech-German ‘Coerced Community’
(referring to Adler’s book “Theresienstadt 1941-1945; The Face of a Coerced Community”)
1. Theresienstadts Festungen: Von der josephinischen Architektur zum Militärgefängnis und nationalsozialistischen „Ghetto“
2. Nationen im „Ghetto”
3. Zum Begriff der „Zwangsgemein…[Read more]

Ghettoized Languages: Theresienstadt as Czech-German ‘Coerced Community’
(referring to Adler’s book “Theresienstadt 1941-1945; The Face of a Coerced Community”)
1. Theresienstadts Festungen: Von der josephinischen Architektur zum Militärgefängnis und nationalsozialistischen „Ghetto“
2. Nationen im „Ghetto”
3. Zum Begriff der „Zwangsgemein…[Read more]

Bibliographische Hinweise zur deutschsprachigen Fachliteratur des Mittelalters.

Litteraturbanken (The Swedish Literature Bank) is a freely available digital collection of Swedish literary works, ranging from medieval to contemporary literature. It is the result of a cooperation between literary and linguistic scholars, research libraries, and editorial societies and academies. The collection consists not only of digital…[Read more]

Bibliographische Hinweise zur deutschsprachigen Fachliteratur des Mittelalters.

Litteraturbanken (The Swedish Literature Bank) is a freely available digital collection of Swedish literary works, ranging from medieval to contemporary literature. It is the result of a cooperation between literary and linguistic scholars, research libraries, and editorial societies and academies. The collection consists not only of digital…[Read more]

Bibliographische Hinweise zur deutschsprachigen Fachliteratur des Mittelalters.

Litteraturbanken (The Swedish Literature Bank) is a freely available digital collection of Swedish literary works, ranging from medieval to contemporary literature. It is the result of a cooperation between literary and linguistic scholars, research libraries, and editorial societies and academies. The collection consists not only of digital…[Read more]

The Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network (DiXiT) is a Marie Sk odowska-Curie EU-Funded 7th Framework Programme. During the grant period (2013- 2017), twelve Early Stage Research Fellows and five Experi- enced Research Fellows engage with questions and tensions surrounding the evolving theory and practices of digital scholarly…[Read more]