Taking the idea of a “radical ethnomusicology” from Ed Emery (2017), I want to expose that the fact there is not a normal academic situation for ethnomusicology in the Balearic Islands it is also an opportunity to develop a radical and transforming scholar field, and I also rise some questions that I believe a radical Catalan ethnomusicology…[Read more]

In this article we present the close relationship between Baltasar Samper and Manuel Blancafort, two of the most prominent Catalan composers of the first half of the 20th Century, and the rediscovery of the forgotten piano roll of one Samper’s most succesful works, which now can be heard to hear for the first time in 90 years. Edit Sonograma…[Read more]

One could call «industrial musicology» the study of the musical life in factories and workshops. Unlike agrarian societies, there are very few works about industrial workers’ musical activity, neither at the Catalan Countries nor Europe. Based on British and Catalan scholars’ few theoretical works, our research Música popular i indust…[Read more]

Baltasar Samper i Marquès (1888-­1966), from Majorca, was one of the most promi­nent musicians of the first third of the 20th century, forming part of the musical elite of Catalonia until the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. A long exile, first in France and later in Mexico, from where he was never to return, pushed him into the background an…[Read more]

Finite Element Analyses (FEA) was used to predict the resonant modes of the Tsar Kolokol, a 200-ton fractured bell that sits outside the Kremlin in Moscow. Frequency and displacement data informed a physical model implemented in the Faust programming language (Functional Audio Stream). The authors hosted a concert for Tsar bell and carillon with…[Read more]

This bibliography presents selected sources (mostly in English) at the intersection of music and architecture. Many of the sources approach the relationship between the practices through multiple case studies. Several books focused on particular artists in both disciplines have been included not because those artists are central to the study of…[Read more]

An exhibit catalog for “Tintinnabulation!,” a decade-long exhibit at the Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments curated by Tiffany Ng that highlighted holdings from the Robyna Neilson Ketchum Collection of Bells.

366-entry multimedia CD-ROM catalog of the complete collections of the Museum of the Royal Carillon School ‘Jef Denyn,’ now owned by the Municipal Museum of Mechelen, Belgium.