Hip-hop producers rely on several specific formulas to create sample-based hip-hop. Developed with a combination of analysis and ethnography, this typology of sampling is a systematic terminological and conceptual approach to this repertoire. There are three main types of samples: structural samples, surface samples, and lyric samples. Each of…[Read more]

An essay on Ruth Crawford Seeger’s string quartet, using the technique of integral serialism: http://www.theavidlistener.com/2014/12/the-innovations-of-ruth-crawford-seeger.html

An essay on The Decemberists’ The Tain: http://www.theavidlistener.com/2015/11/american-folk-rock-cattle-raid-the-decemberistss-the-tain.html

An essay on Anthony Burgess’s Napoleon Symphony: http://www.theavidlistener.com/2015/11/art-mimics-art-anthony-burgesss-napoleon-symphony-a-novel-in-four-movements.html

An essay on Delia Derbyshire and women in electronic music: http://www.theavidlistener.com/2014/12/women-cant-do-that-delia-derbyshire-and-electronic-music.html?cid=6a00d83534ac5b69e201bb07c160e9970d#comment-6a00d83534ac5b69e201bb07c160e9970d

An essay on autobiography in pop songs by women: http://www.theavidlistener.com/2014/12/singing-about-yourself-autobiography-in-pop-music.html

An essay on music in Margaret Atwood’s Maddaddam Trilogy: http://www.theavidlistener.com/2015/10/survival-through-song.html

An essay on gender and music in the Star Wars films: http://www.theavidlistener.com/2015/01/hearing-gender-in-george-lucass-galaxy.html

Essay on music inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. http://www.theavidlistener.com/2015/10/heavy-metal-elves.html

All of the edited songs extracted from The Art Songs of Louise Talma, CMS Sourcebooks in American Music series, Routledge, 2017.

Research on global Shakespeare has focused on the ways in which the plays have been adapted for indigenous languages and customs. Less attention has been paid to the ways in which non-British directors have treated the Elizabethan drama. Yet there are a number of works that create direct musical dialogues between Elizabethan drama, history, and…[Read more]

Review of guides to writing about music

On the treatment and assessments of female students at the Conservatoire Américain in Fontainebleau, France