Publications on form in popular music have largely assumed the formal sections germane to pop-rock to be the formal designs of “popular music.” But the most popular music of our time—music charting on the Billboard Top-40—has absorbed the influence of electronic dance music (EDM) in a way that has fundamentally changed its formal structu…[Read more]

Tritones sounding over subdominant harmony, either as suspensions, accented passing tones, or incomplete neighbors, constitute a class of sonorities regularly heard in film and television music. I collectively refer to these phenomena as “subdominant tritones” (SdTT), and theorize a link between the SdTT and emotions it engenders. The article pre…[Read more]

Eighteenth-century Spanish music experienced a golden age thanks, especially, to the proliferation of centers such as the chapels, which articulated and structured the musical life of our cities: the main sound activity was centered on ecclesiastical music, both liturgical and paraliturgical, with which religious festivities were solemnized.…[Read more]

This article focuses on Spanish music in the 18th century, which experienced one of the most brilliant periods in its history. This was undoubtedly due to the splendour achieved by keyboard music, which reached an extraordinary level of development after the arrival in Spain of the Neapolitan composer Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757), harpsichord…[Read more]

The publication of Cervantes’ Don Quixote served as inspiration from the very moment of its creation for a whole series of artistic manifestations, among which those related to the art of sound stand out. Among the famous Spanish composers of Romanticism, the Sevillian composer Manuel del Pópulo García shines and stands out with his own light. H…[Read more]

Article about the Spanish composer, teacher and musicologist Felipe Pedrell, founder of the Modern Musicology in Spain

Osborn, Brad and D.K. Blake. 2019. “Triangulating Timbre in Sigur Rós’s Iceland.” In *Sounds Icelandic*, edited by Thorbjörg Daphne Hall, N. Dibben, Á.H. Ingólfsson, and T. Mitchell. Equinox Press, 208–219.

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.

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

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]

Research about Bruckner and the relation of Greek-German musicologist Constanton Floros and Anton Bruckner

Chapter about the relation of Greek-german musicologist Constantn Floros and his output about Austrian composer Gustav Mahler

Dictionary Article about the 18th century Spanish composer Antonio Soler (1729-1783), chapel master of Escorial Monastery in Madrid

Critical study about the musical bibliography of Antonio Soler