Article about the composer Pauline Viardot

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.

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.

The biographical trajectory of the Franco-Flemish composer Josquin des Prez can be described as exciting and his musical contribution as transcendent in an era of sublime creativity that coincided with the artistic and intellectual rediscovery of the values of classical Greco-Latin antiquity. A contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo,…[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The importance of this publication lies in the recovery and study of a musical heritage of extraordinary quality: unpublished musical works by the masters of the Royal Chapel of Madrid, the most important centre in Spain at the time, which until now had slept the sleep of oblivion.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 article examines two important texts of Teresa de Jesús, El Libro de la vida and Las moradas del castillo interior, to take a new look at an old debate about whether Santa Teresa’s written expression is “spontaneous” or whether it is in fact more literary. Dr. Davis arrives at the conclusion that the writer’s works are both more indebted to…[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]