Teleology and Structural Determinants in Beethoven's C# Minor Quartet, Op. 131

01 October 1990 in Twentieth Century Culture (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1967), 33-37; 46-48; 53. authors: Barbara Barry author_ids: 350 authors: Barbara Barry author_ids: 350

Iconography of the Viol: The Soloist in Baroque Portraits

01 October 1980 Iconography of the viol was the theme of the special project for the 1978-79 academic year sponsored by the Research Center for Musical Iconography. Based at City University of New York, the Research Center is the American branch of RIdIM, the...

RCMI/CUNY: The Research Center for Musical Iconography of the City University of New York

01 October 1973 The Research Center for Musical Iconography was established in the spring of 1972 under the auspices of the Ph.D. Program in Music at the City University of New York, to augment the facilities for music research within the University and to serve as...

The RILM Project: Charting the Seas of Modern Musicological Literature

01 October 2000 Every year, lately around August or September, music libraries around the world receive a very large blue book: the latest annual volume of RILM Abstracts of Music Literature. Every year we know it will be heavier to lift, perhaps a few millimeters...

Contemporary Music as Represented in Stockhausen's Plus-Minus

01 October 1977 "Art," to combine two well-used adages, "is a mirror to life and a reflection of its times." It has rarely been made clear, however, what these two images really mean, except on a direct one-to-one basis, and that at the surface level. It is possible...

Saying Something Else: Improvisation and Music-Play Facilitation in a Medical Ethnomusicology Program for Children on the Autism Spectrum

01 October 2008 Studies of social and interactive processes in music improvisation constitute an important dimension of contemporary ethnomusicological research.1 The range of topics, issues, and traditions addressed is vast, yet one may identify across this...

The Teacher's Guide to Recent Recordings of Music by Black Composers

01 October 1973 This discography is restricted to "concert" music by composers of African ancestry, regardless of the country of their birth. I acknowledge immediately that several of the figures listed are represented on recordings by works in other genres (e.g.,...