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"Amazing Together": Mason Bates, Classical Music, And Neoliberal Values, Marianna Ritchey

Music & Dance Department Faculty Publication Series

We are all connected...one universe...one planet...one ecosystem...thriving as one network...working with one purpose...we are...amazing together

These sentiments, accompanied by images of dolphins, forests, cell-phone towers, and outer space, were projected onto screens encircling the Las Vegas Youth Orchestra as it performed at the 2014 partner summit of Cisco Systems, Inc., a multinational conglomerate specializing in networking technology. The music on offer was The Rise of Exotic Computing, a composition for orchestra and laptop by the 38 year old composer Mason Bates. The piece musically depicts synthetic computing, in which lines of code are replicated without human intervention. Thus, it …

The Yale-Classical Archives Corpus, Christopher William White, Ian Quinn

Music & Dance Department Faculty Publication Series

The Yale-Classical Archives Corpus (YCAC) contains harmonic and rhythmic information for a dataset of Western European Classical art music. This corpus is based on data from classicalarchives.com, a repository of thousands of user-generated MIDI representations of pieces from several periods of Western European music history. The YCAC makes available metadata for each MIDI file, as well as a list of pitch simultaneities ("salami slices") in the MIDI file. Metadata include the piece's composer, the composer's country of origin, date of composition, genre (e.g., symphony, piano sonata, nocturne, etc.), instrumentation, meter, and key. The processing step groups the file's pitches …

John Travers: 18 Canzonets For Two And Three Voices (1746), Emanuel Rubin

Music & Dance Department Faculty Publication Series

Introductory essay only, to a critical edition of the two and three-part canzonets of John Travers, mostly settings of the satirist Matthew Prior. Includes corrected texts and notes on the edition.

Four Compositions By Menachem Wiesenberg, Emanuel Rubin

Music & Dance Department Faculty Publication Series

Listener's guide to four compositions by the Israeli composer, Menachem Wiesenberg, accompanied by a brief biography of the composer and texts of the songs in the original Hebrew with English translations. Wiesenberg was in residence at the University of Massachusetts in February, 2005. This concert of his works was the culmination of his master classes, rehearsals, and public lectures.

Rhythmic And Structural Aspects Of The Masoretic Cantillation Of The Pentateuch, Emanuel Rubin

Music & Dance Department Faculty Publication Series

This paper defines a new approach to understanding and transcribing Jewish cantillation based on the writings of the medieval Masoretes. It presents an analysis of the rhythmic and structural features at the core of the system of biblical cantillation in the Jewish liturgy, and asserts that those features,rather than specific melodies, are the principal factors to be taken into consideration in understanding the liturgical, semantic, and exegetical functions of cantillation.

Israel's Theatre Of Confrontation, Emanuel Rubin

Music & Dance Department Faculty Publication Series

Following Israel's victory in the "Six-Day War" a sense of jubilation permeated Israeli society. Far from participating in that mood, Israeli playwrights took an aggressively critical stance, objecting that life in Israel was becoming misguidedly hedonistic as a result of that success and was straying from the ideals on which the country was founded. Following a brief look at the national context, several important plays confronting Israeli theater-goers are traced over the following years with special attention to the 1983-84 season, in an attempt to explain the point of view of selected playwrights as well as that of the public …