Music as Life-Saving Project: Venezuela’s El Sistema in American Neo-Idealistic Imagination

28 April 2014 Abstract The U.S. reception of El Sistema has been, for the most part, enthusiastic, as reflected in numerous media articles and the literature of prominent advocates such as Tricia Tunstall. An analysis of these sources points to a tendency on the...

From Settler Colonialism to Standing Rock: Hearing Native Voices for Peace

30 November 2018 Earth Speaks.” On Once in a Red Moon, 2016. __________. “They Didn’t Listen.” On Joanne Shenandoah, 1989. authors: Nancy S. Love author_ids: 265321 authors: Nancy S. Love author_ids: 265321

Carissimi’s [i]Jephte[/i] and Jesuit Spirituality

01 April 2019 Abstract The lament that ends Jacomo Carissimi’s Jephte is frequently anthologized and taught in undergraduate surveys, and is justly famous for its emotional impact. Although it is generally thought to have been composed for performance at the...

Connecting Music to Ethics

30 November 2018 Many features of music contribute to its positive potential for promoting social harmony. But music’s influence on human interaction is not entirely benign. I consider features of music that enable it to serve such contrary projects, beginning by...

The Global DJ Project and the Blank Canvas: World Music, Memory and Meaning

20 May 2013 Abstract1 “The blank canvas” is a hypothetical psychoacoustic adaptation strategy which enables latter day American listeners to survive and even thrive within an environment of extreme musical diversity. This diversity is as much historical as it is...

Florentín Giménez’s [i]Misa folclórica paraguaya[/i]: A Liturgical Celebration through the Lens of Musical Nationalism

01 May 2021 Abstract Exemplifying his approach to musical nationalism, the Misa folclórica paraguaya (“Paraguayan Folkloric Mass”) of Florentín Giménez (1925–2021) combines elements of the Roman Catholic Mass with folkloric music idioms. Composed in 1990, this...

Introducing Musical Meaning through Popular Music

20 September 2018 Abstract When analyzing challenging texted art music, all too often the act of labeling a concept (for example, “common-tone modulation”) can mislead students into thinking that the label is the end of the story. Several factors, such as difficulty in...

“Shot Into the Air Like a Rocket”: Climax in the Lieder of Alma Mahler

01 May 2023 Abstract The appropriation of musical climax as an act of subversion became a common claim in feminist analysis of music by women composers. The focus on the tension and release in Western classical music has been called out as overtly masculine and...

The Woman in the Music (On Feminism as Theory and Practice)

01 October 2000 The Woman in the Music 1 (On Feminism as Theory and Practice) At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars! The outside pattern, I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can...

A Taxonomy of Sentence Structures

07 August 2014 Abstract In his 1967 Fundamentals of Musical Composition, Arnold Schonberg described the sentence as a basic tool for organizing themes. Over the past thirty years, a growing number of scholars have been reexamining Schoenberg's concept of the sentence...

[i]Ethnomusicology Scholarship and Teaching[/i] - Neurodiversity and the Ethnomusicology of Autism

25 August 2014 Abstract In this article, I explore how musical experience and an emergent ethnomusicology of autism can provide both people with autism and their neurotypical counterparts with opportunities to collectively live, model, and promote an epistemology of...

Paul Hindemith's Philosophy of Music and the Role of [i]The Four Temperaments[/i]

01 October 2011 Paul Hindemith formulated his philosophy of music upon two "basic and unalterable musical values," the one, Augustinian, the other, Boethian. He defined the latter as the "power of music, its ethos . . . brought into action upon our mind"; the former,...

Feminist Scholarship and the Field of Musicology: I

01 October 1989 Feminist Scholarship and the Field of Musicology: I1 In a study entitled Feminist Scholarship: Kindling in the Groves of Academe, five authors surveyed recent scholarship in the fields of anthropology, education, history, literature, and philosophy in...

Women Conductors on the Orchestral Podium: Pedagogical and Professional Implications

01 October 2008 Introduction Recent discussions about women's experiences in the orchestral profession1 have revealed the gendered politics behind many of the generally accepted norms and customs in the orchestral tradition. With the bourgeoning of feminist...