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Making "Music At The Margins"? A Social And Cultural Analysis Of Xinyao In Singapore, Lily Kong

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Formalist critics and aestheticians have argued that music does not possess any kind of "extra-musical" significance, that there is no meaning beyond the form and structural relations of the notes. For them, music exemplifies the laws of mathematical harmony and proportion rather than the social and political contexts within which it is produced, reproduced and consumed. This view has been challenged by a number of social theorists: Max Weber, Theodor Adorno and Edward Said have all argued for an understanding of music within its social, cultural, economic and political contexts. Such analysis of popular music is now unquestioned. Indeed, it …

Women And Music : A Selective Annotated Bibliography On Women And Gender Issues In Music, 1987-1992., Margaret Ericson

Margaret D. Ericson

400 page monographic bibliography on all aspects of scholarship on women and music, with a particular emphasis on the concept of gender and "difference" in the formation and production of music cultures.

The Mirror, Doug Lofstrom

Doug Lofstrom

Full-length ballet. Commissioned and produced by Midwest Ballet Theatre, Downers Grove, IL 1996.

Dervish (Saxophone Quartet), Chris Rutkowski

Chris Rutkowski

Commissioned by Donald Sinta and premiered by his quartet in New York City and Philadephia.

750 Years In The Life Of A Pair Of Cistercian Antiphonals, Elizabeth Teviotdale

Elizabeth C Teviotdale

Examines the provenance and dissemination of a multivolume antiphonary produced for the Cistercian nunnery near Cambrai. The MS is presently dispersed through several collections. In 1983 the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, purchased from the German art collectors Peter and Irene Ludwig 19 leaves and four cuttings from the MS (MS Ludwig VI 5). In 1992, the Museum acquired an additional 81 leaves (MS 44). One leaf is kept at the Cleveland Museum of Art (inv. no. 85.83), and cuttings are at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm (B 1730-32) and in a private collection in Collegeville, Minnesota (Hill Monastic Manuscript …

Am I Being Followed? Finding The Elusive Connection Between Conductor And Ensemble, Thomas Lloyd

Thomas Lloyd

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Two Works For Clarinet By Germaine Tailleferre: Sonata For Solo Clarinet (1959); Arabesque For Clarinet And Piano, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone