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The Mulberry Tree, The Birds And The Divine In The Music Of The Dotār In Khorāssān (Iran), Farrokh Vahabzadeh

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

The relationship between music and environment plays an important role both in musical compositions and in research on music. The paper is about an anthropological study on the relationship between music of the long-necked lute dotār and the environment, in the region of Khorāssān in Iran. By examining the close relationship between the mulberry tree, birds, metaphor and music of dotār, we will try to show how the environmental factors, data or aspects can be directly or indirectly related to the music, particularly through the symbolism of Sufi beliefs in the region. These relationships to the nature are strongly linked …

Ecojustice, Religious Folklife And A Sound Ecology, Jeff Todd Titon

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

Folk, traditional, and indigenous ecological knowledges have a significant role to play in ecojustice. A case study in the traditional ecological knowledge among one of the religious communities with whom I have spent several decades illustrates how they embody the main principle and three fields of an ecological rationality: the community of inter-related beings; the ways the beings participate in that community or place; and the relations of nature and the nonhuman world to humans and human nature. Ecological rationality stands in contrast to economic rationality, a branch of instrumental reason exemplified by what economists call rational choice theory. An …

“A Gentle, Angry People”: Music In A Quaker Nonviolent Direct-Action Campaign To Power Local Green Jobs, Benjamin A. Safran

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

While the use of spiritual music in non-violent resistance is noted by such scholars as Thomas Turino (2008), one not might expect music to play a large role in a Quaker-led non-violent direct action campaign. Even though Quakerism is known for its historical animosity toward music, I argue that Quakerism's historic values have in fact fostered a robust musical culture within Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT) and shaped its ability to function effectively as a "rebel" non-violent direct action group. Music is used to summon courage and unity within scary actions. The “gentle” Quaker aesthetic may meanwhile partially mask or …

"No Human Ever Made A Cathedral Such As This": Scoping The Ecology Of The Carols By Candlelight Effect In Australia's Open-Air Environments, Robin Ryan

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

During Australia’s dry December, traditional and popular forms of caroling shape the sight and sound of the key Christian festival of Christmas. Creative connections between belief, place, and music are characteristically manifest in focused open-air environments of beach, bushland or park. Reasoning from gospel belief that the very first “Christmas carol” emanated from a heavenly host of angels singing to an audience of shepherds in a field, caroling alfresco is an appropriate activity. How, then, do Australian caroling venues become conducive to environmental spheres of sound and influence? While the annual mass Carols by Candlelight concerts televised from Melbourne and …

Conch Calls Into The Anthropocene: Pututus As Instruments Of Human-Environmental Relations At Monumental ChavíN, Miriam A. Kolar

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

Pututus, conch shell musical horns, are known in the Andes as annunciatory devices enabling their players to call across long distances. Beyond their iconic call, the sonic and gestural versatility possible in pututu performance constitutes dynamical evidence for prehistorical uses and site-specific cultural valuations of these multifaceted ritual instruments. Pututus appear in drawings created during the Spanish conquest and colonization of the Andes, and intact shell horns have been excavated from monumental architecture in Perú preceding the Inca by more than two millennia. At the late Andean Formative center at Chavín de Huántar, Perú, a well-preserved ceremonial complex active …

The Musical Poetics Of Witness: Two Anthropocene Journeys, Heidi Hart

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

Kerstin Ekman’s The Forest of Hours (first published in Swedish in 1988) and Jenny Erpenbeck’s Visitation(published in German as Heimsuchung in 2008) span two decades and two countries, but both novels reach across far larger epochs, in their respective journeys from Europe’s glacial prehistory through the Dark Ages and the Thirty Years War, and through the twentieth century’s collective trauma. Though disagreement persists on when the Anthropocene began to leave its mark in stone, contemporary fiction often registers its traces through a marginally human witness who somehow survives generation after generation, recording in word or action what he or …

2019-2020 Nsal Collaborative Piano Competition, Conservatory Of Music, The National Society Of Arts And Letters

Other Competitions

Sponsored by Donald Mandich, National Society of Arts and Letters Florida East Coast Chapter presents 2020 Collaborative Piano-Strings Duo Competition Finals

Committee

• Lisa Leonard, chairperson
• Kim Champion
• Barbara Fisher
• Madi Guzinski
• Olga Lien
• Marilyn Nelson
• Renee Plevy
• Bruce Spizler
• Kay Renz, PR

Judges

• Manuel Capote
• Sheng-Yuan Kuan
• Dina Kostic

Winners

• 1st Place - Feruza Dadabaeva (Piano) and Askar Salimfjanov (Violin)
• 2nd Place - Guzal Isametdinova (Piao) and Zulfiya Bashirova (Violin)
• 3rd Place - Sharon Villegas (Piano) and David Brill (Violin)

Anxhela Janaqi: Graduate Piano Recital, Anxhela Janaqi

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

No abstract provided.

Note By Note, Luke Fahey

2020 Honors Council of the Illinois Region

My poster describes the initial goals and functions of a new organization that I am starting. The organization, Note by Note, is a local program that aims to engage children in the arts. Its current activities include providing enriching performances to younger students in the district 200 area. Every year, kids drop out of performing arts programs for a variety of reasons. This limits the important benefits provided by learning music. The main goal of this organization is to keep more students in the arts programs because of the benefits it has on child education and quality of life.

Illinois State University Sixth-Grade Honor Festival, February 29, 2020, Illinois State University School Of Music

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
February 29, 2020
Saturday
3:00 p.m.

Chamber Music For String Sextets, Department Of Music

Concerts and Event Programs 2019-2020

An evening of music for string sextet. Performed by Carla Trynchuck, violin I, Stephanie Guimaraes, violin II, Claudio Gonzales, viola I, Shania Watts, viola II, German Marcano, cello I, and Grant Steinweg, cello II. Featuring works by Mozart and Brahms.

2019-2020 Master Class - Members Of The Eroica Trio, Eroica Trio, Erika Nickrenz, Sara Parkins, David Brill, Askar Salimdjanov, Tom Wong, Georgiy Khokhlov, Feruza Dadabaeva, Zulfiya Bashirova, Guzal Isametdinova

Master Classes

No abstract provided.

The Music Of Steven Snowden Hosted By Uni-Percussion Group, February 28, 2020 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Music Recital Programs

Program of a music recital given by faculty, students, or guest artists from the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.

Guest Artist Recital Teresa Buchholz, Mezzo-Soprano, February 28, 2020 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Music Recital Programs

Program of a music recital given by faculty, students, or guest artists from the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.

Senior Recital: Sam Mcpeak, Tenor, Department Of Music, University Of Richmond

Music Department Concert Programs

No abstract provided.

2019-2020 Dean's Showcase No. 3, Justin Ochoa, Karla Mejias, Sheng Yuan Kuan, Lydia Roth, Guzal Isametdinova, Jannina Eliana Pena, Davron Ziyadjanov, Aaron Small, Feruza Dadabaeva, Scott Quirk

Dean's Showcase

No abstract provided.

The Eleventh Annual Festival Of New Music, Mark Zanter

All Performances

No abstract provided.

Recital 6: Program, Peter Bloom

Schubertiade, Jiayan Sun, piano

No abstract provided.

Uni Wind Ensemble And Uni Concert Band, February 27, 2020 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Music Recital Programs

Program of a music recital given by faculty, students, or guest artists from the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.

Concerto For Violin And Orchestra And "Nevertheless, She Composed: A Contemporary Survey Of Women Composers Of The Twenty-First Century", Elizabeth Anne Knox

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation consists of two parts: the first part includes an original composition titled, “Concerto for Violin and Orchestra.” This twenty-minute work is composed for traditional orchestral instrumentation and solo violin. Motivic variation is the primary focus of this piece with a goal to show evidence of a thorough understanding and use of this technique. In music composition, variation is a technique achieved by restating musical material in an altered form. Schoenberg describes a motive as, “a unit which contains one or more features of interval and rhythm [whose] presence is maintained in constant use throughout a piece.” Therefore, motivic …