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Henry Cowell, The Great Experimenter: Uncovering The Catalysts That Generated A Composer’S Ultramodernist Piano Techniques, Chessa Catherine Wathen Jan 2016

Henry Cowell, The Great Experimenter: Uncovering The Catalysts That Generated A Composer’S Ultramodernist Piano Techniques, Chessa Catherine Wathen

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In the scholarship surrounding piano repertoire, Henry Cowell is seen as a kind of “one-hit-experimental-wonder,” being know mostly for his astonishingly progressive piece The Banshee. However, Cowell was an enigmatic composer, a diverse scholar, an influential proponent new music, as well as a music theorist and comparative musicologist. Therefore in order to gain a more complete understanding of Cowell and his deeply influential piano works, this project seeks to explore the philosophical, cultural, and non- Western musical influences that inspired Cowell’s novel experimentation at the piano.

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Return With Us Now... Featured Facsimile: Henry Worrall’S Spanish Retreat, Robert Ferguson Jan 2016

Return With Us Now... Featured Facsimile: Henry Worrall’S Spanish Retreat, Robert Ferguson

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Ferguson examines Henry Worrall's Spanish Retreat. Its origins go back to London, specifically to two guitar prints published there in the mid-1820s. Though the earliest of these (c.1826) states that the piece was "arranged for guitar" by Alexander Sosson, this does not necessarily indicate that it was originally written for a different instrument, such as piano. "Arranged" could mean the piece was already in circulation among guitarists, or another guitarist created or popularized it, and Sosson merely reworked it (and wrote it down). Moreover, imitating other instruments, at which the guitar proved particularly adroit, constituted the essence and charm of …

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Giuliani’S Naples: A Walking Tour, Nicoletta Confalone, Grégory Leclair Jan 2016

Giuliani’S Naples: A Walking Tour, Nicoletta Confalone, Grégory Leclair

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With 430,000 inhabitants in 1800, Naples had become the third most populous European city after London and Paris. The excavation of the site of Pompeii in the eighteenth century gave a special prestige to the city. Its newly unearthed antiquities and frescoes led to a vogue of neoclassicism across the arts. Images of ancient Greek and Roman lyres inspired the creation of the lyre-guitar, an instrument on which Mauro Giuliani performed on various occasions in Naples--probably more for its visual effect than for audibility's sake.

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The Guitar In Tudor England: A Social And Musical History, By Christopher Page, Richard Long Jan 2016

The Guitar In Tudor England: A Social And Musical History, By Christopher Page, Richard Long

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Long reviews The Guitar in Tudor England: A Social and Musical History by Christopher Page.

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German Romantic Guitar Duets (Schneiderman, Yamaya), Richard Long Jan 2016

German Romantic Guitar Duets (Schneiderman, Yamaya), Richard Long

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Long reviews Darr's German Romantic Guitar Duets by John Schneiderman and Hideki Yamaya.

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Rhizomatic Approaches To Screen-Based Music Notation, Lindsay R. Vickery Jan 2016

Rhizomatic Approaches To Screen-Based Music Notation, Lindsay R. Vickery

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The rhizome concept explored by Deleuze and Guatarri has had an important influence on formal thinking in music and new media. This paper explores the development of rhizomatic musical scores that are arranged cartographically with nodal points allowing for alternate pathways to be traversed. The challenges of pre-digital exemplars of rhizomatic structure are discussed. It follows the development of concepts and technology used in the creation of five works by the author Ubahn c. 1985: the Rosenberg Variations [2012], The Last Years [2012], Sacrificial Zones [2014], detritus [2015] and trash vortex [2015]. this paper discusses the potential for the evolution …

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