Diabolical Dances and Rhythmic Poetry: Interpreting and Performing Franz Liszt’s Metric Conflicts

28 October 2025 Editor, Scholarship and Research James A. Grymes Expand Article The technical and musical difficulties of Franz Liszt’s piano music are well known to pianists and non-pianists alike. Such difficulties have been discussed in diverse venues from...

Union Musicians and the Medal of Honor During the American Civil War

08 July 2014 Abstract The sound of fifes, drums, and bugles are recognized as a commonplace yet significant part of the Civil War soundscape. Those who performed this music, however, have drawn less attention than the pieces they performed. This is unfortunate, as...

Not Without a Grievance: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the Suffrage Movement, and the Reception of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

01 October 2024 Abstract In an 1882 article in the American suffrage newspaper, The Woman’s Journal, Thomas Wentworth Higginson expressed outrage that the Mendelssohn family had discouraged Fanny Hensel from composing and that her music had been published under Felix...

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,...

In Mulieribus, Cycles of Eternity: Contemporary Works for Female Voices

20 September 2020 Cycles of Eternity: Contemporary Works for Female Voices. 2019. In Mulieribus. Contents: works of Tarik O’Regan, John Vergin, Robert Lockwood, Craig Kingsbury, Andrea L. Reinkemeyer, Kay Kyurim Rhie, Nicola LaFanu, and Wolfgang Plagge. Digital...

Teaching Embodied Musickmaking: Pedagogical Perspectives from South Asian Music and Dance

13 May 2016 Embodied cognition posits that the mind and body function as a single entity and that all aspects of the mind are shaped by the body. Embodied pedagogy, influenced by embodied cognition, realizes the role of the body and its relationship to the mind...

The Renaissance of Sir Arthur Sullivan

01 October 1981 When the authoritative work on unjustly neglected composers is written, a prominent chapter will surely have to be devoted to Victorian England's Wunderkind, Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900). Despite the fact that he is one of the very few British composers...

Jeff Beck: The Quintessential Postmodern Virtuoso Meets Baudrillard’s Racing Driver and his Double

05 June 2013 Abstract Jean Baudrillard contends that human achievement has become so intertwined with the media, technology, and hypereality that individual accomplishment has become nearly impossible. This generates nostalgia for exceptional talents who can...