Musicians are subject to a wide range of medical and performance problems related to the physical and psychological demands of their profession. Such problems are usually diagnosed and treated in relation to a specific cause, for example direct treatment to reduce inflammation. While holistic factors are increasingly acknowledged, currently…[Read more]

Users of contemporary media technology in religious settings often oscillate between immediacy in spiritual interaction and the increasing complexity and visibility of media technology as human artifacts. Drawing on approaches to mediation from philosophy and media theory, I examine Mauritian Muslims’ uses of sound reproduction in performing a d…[Read more]

Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann (nacido en 1973) es un compositor peruano/brasileño/estadounidense que estudió composición en São Paulo en la Faculdade Santa Marcelina y en los Estados Unidos en la Universidad Internacional de Florida y la Universidad de Boston. Su cuarteto de cuerdas no. 3 apareció en un disco reciente de cuartetos de cuerda lati…[Read more]

This article traces the notion in rabbinic writings that Ezra–a leader of the Jewish people in the early Second Temple period–also functioned as a High Priest (Kohen Gadol).

Ever since appearing in Disney’s Saludos Amigos (1942), Ary Barroso’s musical ode to the Brazilian motherland, “Brazil,” is among the most recognizable songs circulating in Western Culture about Brazil. This essay shows how the song became detached from its roots as a nationalist samba to represent in audiovisual media such divergent ideas as tro…[Read more]

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]

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]

Review of Edward J. Watts, Hypatia. The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher

Los estudios lexicográficos medievales siempre son muy bien recibidos por la comunidad
académica, pues, al fin y al cabo, tanto la reconstrucción de las sociedades del pasado como la reproducción y edición de textos de aquellos tiempos han de nutrirse de las correctas acepciones semánticas de los vocablos contenidos en los textos que nos sirve…[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]

Los estudios lexicográficos medievales siempre son muy bien recibidos por la comunidad
académica, pues, al fin y al cabo, tanto la reconstrucción de las sociedades del pasado como la reproducción y edición de textos de aquellos tiempos han de nutrirse de las correctas acepciones semánticas de los vocablos contenidos en los textos que nos sirve…[Read more]

Los estudios lexicográficos medievales siempre son muy bien recibidos por la comunidad
académica, pues, al fin y al cabo, tanto la reconstrucción de las sociedades del pasado como la reproducción y edición de textos de aquellos tiempos han de nutrirse de las correctas acepciones semánticas de los vocablos contenidos en los textos que nos sirve…[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]

Musico-analytical examination of Frank Ocean’s album Blonde and the lyrical references and musical allusions to a marijuana high.

Historical, analytical, and critical overview of John Zorn’s celebrated file-card composition, Cobra.

For Arnold Schoenberg, presentation (Darstellung) is an act of conscien- tious composition by which the formal/functional properties of motives and Gestalten, along with any possible development or variation, are real- ized in the creation of a coherent musical artwork. Presentation, then, is the manner by which a musical idea (Gedanke) is made…[Read more]