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The Popular And The Sacred In Music, Jacob Johnson

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

A book review is presented for Antti-Ville Kärjä, The Popular and the Sacred in Music, London and New York: Routledge, 2022.

Everyday Creativity: Singing Goddesses In The Himalayan Foothills, Nadia Chana

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

A book review is presented for Kirin Narayan, Everyday Creativity: Singing Goddesses in the Himalayan Foothills (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016).

Retrat Del ‘Clubber’ Adolescent, Una Mirada Retrospectiva Als ‘Balearic Beats’, Antoni Pizà

Publications and Research

Quan jo tenia uns deu anys, crec que era l’estiu del 1972, els meus pares van apuntar-me a un campament de l’OJE a Sa Caleta, a Eivissa. Ningú a casa nostra tenia cap tendència tardofeixista. A les escoles dels pobles de Mallorca, però, arribaven avisos anunciant dues setmanes de salut, esport, disciplina i camaraderia (indicis d’allò que alguns ha anomenat male bonding, perquè els campaments naturalment eren exclusivament masculins) i alguns pares, animats pel fet que tot era de franc, enviaven els fills a aquests llocs de possible sinistre ensinistrament. I a pesar de tot, la majoria de pares …

Hildegard Of Bingen And Musical Reception: The Modern Revival Of A Medieval Composer (Book Review), John Macinnis

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

Reviewed Title: Hildegard of Bingen and Musical Reception: The Modern Revival of a Medieval Composer by Jennifer Bain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 235 pp. ISBN: 9781107076662.

"Beyond The Score: Music As Performance" By Nicholas Cook, Aron Edidin

Performance Practice Review

Aron Edidin reviews and discusses Nicholas Cook's 2013 work. Cook, Nicholas. Beyond the Score: Music as Performance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN: 978-0-19-935740-6.

Book Review: "Staging The French Revolution: Cultural Politics And The Paris Opera, 1789-1794", Wayne C. Wentzel

Wayne Wentzel

Dr. Wayne Wentzel's review of Mark Darlow, Staging the French Revolution: Cultural Politics and the Paris Opéra, 1789-1794. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xi + 421 pp. Tables, illustrations, graphs, musical examples, bibliography and index. $ 65.00 (hb). ISBN 978-0-19-977372-5.

Mendelssohn, The Organ, And The Music Of The Past: Constructing Historical Legacies (Book Review), John Macinnis

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

Reviewed Title: Mendelssohn, the Organ, and the Music of the Past: Constructing Historical Legacies by Jurgen Thym. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2014. 339 pp. ISBN: 9781580464741.

"The Rameau Compendium" By Graham Sadler, Mary Cyr

Performance Practice Review

Mary Cyr discusses and reviews Graham Sadler's 2014 work.

Sadler, Graham. The Rameau Compendium. Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2014.

ISBN: 978-1-84383-905-1

Book Review: Dislocated Memories: Jews, Music, And Postwar German Culture, David B. Levy

Touro College Libraries Publications and Research

The author reviews the book Dislocated Memories: Jews, Music, and Postwar German Culture.

"The Notation Is Not The Music: Reflections On Early Music Practice And Performance" By Barthold Kuijken, Colin Lawson

Performance Practice Review

Colin Lawson discusses and reviews Kuijken's 2013 work.

Kuijken, Barthold. The Notation Is Not the Music: Reflections on Early Music Practice and Performance. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2013.

ISBN: 978-0-253-01060-5

"Off The Record: Performing Practices In Romantic Piano Playing" By Neal Peres Da Costa, William Kinderman

Performance Practice Review

William Kinderman discusses and reviews Peres Da Costa's 2012 work.

Peres Da Costa, Neal. Off the Record: Performing Practices in Romantic Piano Playing. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

ISBN: 978-0-19-538691-2

Book Review: "Staging The French Revolution: Cultural Politics And The Paris Opera, 1789-1794", Wayne C. Wentzel

Scholarship and Professional Work – Arts

Dr. Wayne Wentzel's review of Mark Darlow, Staging the French Revolution: Cultural Politics and the Paris Opéra, 1789-1794. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xi + 421 pp. Tables, illustrations, graphs, musical examples, bibliography and index. $ 65.00 (hb). ISBN 978-0-19-977372-5.

"Baroque Music, The Library Of Essays On Music Performance Practice" Edited By Peter Walls And Mary Cyr, David Schulenberg

Performance Practice Review

David Schulenberg discusses and reviews Walls' 2011 work.

Walls, Peter, ed. Baroque Music, The Library of Essays on Music Performance Practice, series editor Mary Cyr. Farnham, Surry, UK, and Burlington, VT, USA: Ashgate, 2011.

ISBN 978-0-7546-2882-8.

Book Review: The Cambridge History Of American Music, Judith Tick

Judith Tick

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Oscar Esplá In Belgium (1936-1949) [Book Review], Antoni Pizà

Publications and Research

In sum, one feels grateful that someone has taken up the task of debunking, one brick at a time, the vast amount of misinformation that exists about Esplá. De Kloe is a thorough, meticulous scholar whose work shows a masterly command of Spanish music history and its sources.

Review Of La Imagen De Nuestros Músicos: Del Siglo De Oro A Edad De Plata, Antoni Pizà

Publications and Research

La imagen de nuestros músicos: Del Siglo de Oro a la Edad de Plata is a hefty compilation of 681 portraits of Spanish composers from the Renaissance to the present. The illustrations are organized in four large chapters: "Del siglo de oro a la ilustración", covers the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries; "El primer romanticismo" and "El segundo romanticismo", deal with the first and second half of the 19th century; the final section, "Los músicos de nuestro siglo" focuses on the 20th century. If my numbers are correct, the earliest composer included in the study is the polyphonist Cristóbal de …

A Study On The Acoustical Foundations Of Music By John Backus, Sally Mccarty

Honors Theses

For this project, the book, The Acoustical Foundations of Music, by John Backus, was read and studied. The purpose of reading this book was twofold. The first was to gain a better understanding of how musical sounds are produced and transmitted to the listener. The second purpose was to decide whether or not this book would be suitable to use as a textbook in a course dealing with acoustics as it applies to music. Since it would be impractical to discus in the bounds of this paper, all that was learned concerning the subject of acoustics, the topic of …