The English dramas of Fernando Pessoa are virtually unknown. Pessoa’s archive includes fragments of Marino, Prometheus Rebound (or Revinctus), and Duke of Parma—three dramatic projects that remain almost entirely unpublished. This paper is the first of two aiming to present Marino, the earliest of these English dramas. The editorial int…[Read more]

The roles in the treatment of audiovisual documentation have a great variety of denominations. Among the most common are Production Researcher, TV Researcher, Film Researcher, Program Researcher and Video Librarian. Although the names vary, the functions are limited to the processing, storage, custody and dissemination of audiovisual collections.…[Read more]

In this talk, presented at the Plenary Session of the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory, I examine the relationship between time, embodiment, and affectivity in music. I argue that music is temporal not because it unfolds in time, or because it takes time as its vector, or even because it has the capacity to alter our sense of…[Read more]

In 1970, a television-show dance contest in a small California town ended abruptly when the studio was briefly plunged into darkness because of an apparent power failure. The media coverage of the event eventually helped uncover criminal activity at the studio; over the course of this reporting, the narrative was accompanied by select genres of…[Read more]

Review of _Analyzing Schubert_ by Suzannah Clark. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. x, 290 pp. ISBN: 978-0-521-84867-1.

This article presents an overview of a new pre-cadential schema in the galant style: the Volta. The Volta is a two-part schema featuring a prominent chromatic reversal: stage one charges up the dominant with a ♯4–5 melodic string, while stage two releases to the tonic using a ♮4–3 string. The schema sheds light on many aspects of galant music-m…[Read more]

Direct and indirect women’s access to the expression of their ideas and wishes on ink and paper has significantly contributed to the construction of the Latin American colonial archive. Nevertheless, this contribution to the area of Latin American women’s studies still remains little known and understudied. The colonial tradition of women’s autho…[Read more]

The recording of Andean data and histories in Peru before and after the arrival of Spanish conquistadors invites us to reflect about the place of the oral word and speech acts, and their function in the transmission and development of knowledge in Western societies. The European fixation with the written word was brought to the Americas in the…[Read more]

El libro aborda los principales resultados y características del proyecto científico: Sistema de Superación de las Televisiones Locales para Potenciar el Proyecto de desarrollo Local, cuyo objetivo se enfoca en el municipio de Caibarién. El territorio se selecciona debido a que cuenta con un canal local y en el mismo se implementa el Programa Nac…[Read more]

This essay introduces a collection of scholarly contributions, from inside and outside of Peru, to the study of the Andean colonial world. These essays address once again Guaman Poma de Ayala’s chronicle in its 405th anniversary in 2020. Unknown, invisible, mute for almost 300 years, the ladino Indian’s “letter to the king” reveals itself as a ta…[Read more]

Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine is an open access, biannual, and peer-reviewed online magazine that aims to bundle cultural diversity. All values of cultures are shown in their varieties of art. Beyond the importance of the medium, form, and context in which art takes its characteristics, we also consider the significance of…[Read more]

Traditional music theory curricula are increasingly scrutinized. Students regularly misunderstand the scope of epistemology and scope of theory, find theory intimidating and difficult, and fail to see its relevance to their career goals. In this essay, I outline a modular music theory curriculum, which works to address these negative perceptions…[Read more]