“Melomachia”: Melodic Challenge and Displacement in Some 19th Century Music, by Rodney Stanning Edgecombe
“Melomachia”: Melodic Challenge and Displacement in Some Nineteenth-Century Music Rodney Stenning Edgecombe In François Philidor’s Ernelinde (the three-act version of which premiered at the Opéra in 1767, and the five-act […]
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A 16th Century Publication Who-Dun-it: Gabrieli and Lassus, by Karen Linnstaedter Strange
A 16th Century Publication Who-Dun-it: Exploring implications of the double attribution of the madrigal “Canzon se l’esser meco” to Andrea Gabrieli and Orlande de Lassus. Karen Linnstaedter Strange, MM A […]
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Jünger der Musenkunst in Rom, by Andrea Scheithauer
Die Musik war in Rom ebenso wie in Griechenland ein wesentlicher Bestandteil von Kult, Festen, Sport, Geselligkeit, Arbeit und Kriegführung. Folglich waren nahezu alle Lebensbereiche von ihr durchdrungen, gab es […]
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Rachmaninov’s Aleko: Theoretical Reflections on the Russian-Gypsy Soul, by ILdar Khannanov
It is dusk and the young Gypsy clings to his Zemfira. Both Gypsies hope to remain until daylight, despite the dire tragedy they know this might bring. If Zemifa’s non-Gypsy […]
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Schoenberg, Unfolding, and “Composing With Twelve Tones”, by John Bracket
Schoenberg, Unfolding, and “Composing With Twelve Tones”: A Case Study (Op. 25/I) John Brackett Introduction “Composition is: thinking in tones and rhythms. Every piece of music is the presentation of […]
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Syntonality – A New System of Harmony, by Dana Richardson
This article has been inadvertently deleted and is now again at your disposition Syntonality is a system of composition designed to provide composers with the ability to control the tension/relaxation […]
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THE ILLUSORY MOZART: SELFISH MEMES IN THE PRIESTS’ MARCHES, by Steven Jan
Steven Jan THE ILLUSORY MOZART: SELFISH MEMES IN THE PRIESTS’ MARCHES FROM IDOMENEO AND DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE for Julian Rushton I want to claim almost limitless power for slightly inaccurate self-replicating […]
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The Relation between Minor Mode Music and Sadness, by Milton D. Heifetz
The Relationship Between Minor Mode Music And Sadness By Milton C. Heifetz There appears to be a general consensus among musicologists that music written in the minor mode is more […]
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Topoi and Melodic Morphology in the Operas of Donizetti, by Rodney Stenning Edgecombe
Topoi and Melodic Morphology in the Operas of Donizetti Rodney Stenning Edgecombe For as long as there has been literature in the world, there have also been genres, the institutions […]
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Wagnerianismus, Translations of Greek Drama by T. Zielinsky, by Grazyna Golik-Szarawarska
Grazyna Golik-Szarawarska WAGNERIANISMUS IN DEN ÜBERSETZUNGEN DER GRIECHISCHEN DRAMATISCHEN DICHTUNG VON TADEUSZ ZIELINSKI Summary: Wagnerianism in Tadeusz Zieliński’s Translations of Greek Tragedies. Tadeusz Zielinski (1859 – 1944) was not only […]
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