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Pacific Studies

Book Listing for the Vol 6, No 2 Spring Edition of the Pacific Studies Journal

Vol. 6 No. 2 (1983): Pacific Studies Front Matter, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

acific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US$40.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, and …

Thematic Similarities In Early And Middle Verdi, Clifford D. Alper

Verdi Forum

No abstract provided.

Abstracts, James Hepokoski, David Lawton, Martin Chusid, Andrew Hornick, John Nádas, Gary Tomlinson, Leonard Garrison, Harold S. Powers, Gregory W. Harwood, Richard B. Beams, William P. Cole, Albert O. Cordell, Marianne Davis, Loryn E. Frye, Ben King, James Mason, William E. Mccauley, Stephen Town

Verdi Forum

Abstracts of papers about Giuseppe Verdi and his works, presented at joint meetings of the AIVS and Greater NY Chapter of the American Musicological Society, 1979-81 (Hepokoski, Lawton, Chusid, Hornick, Nádas, Tomlinson, Garrison, Powers), at the 1982 national meeting of the American Musicological Society (Harwood), and at an NEH-sponsored summer seminar at NYU in 1980 (Beams, Cole, Cordell, Davis, Fry, King, Mason, McCauley, Town).

A Newly-Discovered Letter From Verdi To Leon Escudier, Stephen Casale

Verdi Forum

No abstract provided.

The Musical Language Of Kindertotenlieder No. 2, V. Kofi Agawu

Publications and Research

Three times during his compositional career, Mahler turned to the medium of the orchestral song cycle either to experiment with or to refine certain technical procedures. This resulted in a variety of methods for establishing large-scale tonal coherence, using song as a resource for later symphonic composition, and stylizing folk material, melodically and rhythmically. These compositional techniques are clearly exemplified in Mahler's three cycles, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (1883-85), Kindertotenlieder (1901-04), and Das Lied von der Erde (1907-08).

A List Of Verdi's Music, Librettos, Production Materials, Nineteenth-Century Italian Periodicals, And Other Research Materials, Martin Chusid, Luke Jensen, David Day

Verdi Forum

A descriptive catalog of the microfilm holdings of the American Institute for Verdi Studies as of November 1982. The purposes of the catalog are to to inform the Verdi community and others about the holdings of the Verdi Archive at New York University and to invite readers to assist in the Archive's growth by reporting the location of materials not listed here.

Fiddle Songs And Banjo Songs: A Description Index, Gilbert Wayne Howard

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

English-language texts associated with fiddle and banjo in the southern United States are described and then indexed for comparative reference. The fiddle songs are typically humorous, very brief, highly variable and disunified. The same is true of many banjo songs associated with the banjo. Ballads in the fiddle and the banjo repertory are not indexed if previously catalogued by Child or Laws.

Fiddle and banjo songs are defined as texts associated with fiddle or banjo playing, either through instrumental accompaniment or because informants mentally associate them with the fiddle or banjo. Various ways of performing the songs are enumerated, with …

Notes On The Performance Of Rigoletto, Martin Chusid

Verdi Forum

No abstract provided.

Other Conferences

Verdi Forum

Brief summary of some recent conferences related to Giuseppe Verdi.

Some New Publications

Verdi Forum

No abstract provided.

Home, Loved Ones & Heaven: Folk Expressin In The Songs Of Katherine O'Neill Peters Sturgill, George Reynolds

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Formation, expression, and function of world view were examined in the life and compositions of folk musician, Katherine O'Neill Peters Sturgill. It was seen that the institutions of home, loved ones, and heaven were dominant themes in the formation of her world view. When twenty-two of Kate's gospel and sentimental song compositions were examined for thematic content, they were found to reflect the predominant formative influences in Kate's life. An interpretive model was developed showing home, loved ones, and heaven to be unified themes in a concept of sacred order--a concept which stood to oppose and defend against the banal …

The Verdi Archive At New York University (As Of May 1979): A Brief History And Description, Martin Chusid, John Nádas, Luke Jensen

Verdi Forum

No abstract provided.

Non-Operatic Works, Martin Chusid, John Nádas, Luke Jensen

Verdi Forum

Brief inventory of scores related to Giuseppe Verdi's non-operatic compositions in the microfilm collection of the American Institute for Verdi Studies.

Letters On Film Or In Photocopy, Martin Chusid, John Nádas, Luke Jensen

Verdi Forum

Brief inventory of letters in the collection of the American Institute for Verdi Studies

Operas, Martin Chusid, John Nádas, Luke Jensen

Verdi Forum

Brief inventory (circa 1979) of scores and librettos for Verdi's operas in the microfilm collection of the American Institute for Verdi Studies.

Uncatalogued Ms Scenarios And Librettos Of Operas Not Completed By Verdi For Performance, Martin Chusid, John Nádas, Luke Jensen

Verdi Forum

No abstract provided.

Traces, Mary Jane Phillips-Matz

Verdi Forum

No abstract provided.

Giuseppina Strepponi In Paris (With A Review By Berlioz), Marcello Conati

Verdi Forum

No abstract provided.

Flying With Verdi: The First Letter, Mary Jane Phillips-Matz

Verdi Forum

No abstract provided.

New Publications

Verdi Forum

No abstract provided.

From The Director's Desk, Martin Chusid

Verdi Forum

No abstract provided.

Maddalena's Aria, Patric Schmid

Verdi Forum

No abstract provided.

Casts For The Verdi Premieres In London, 1845-1977 (Part 1), Martin Chusid

Verdi Forum

No abstract provided.

They Like To Sing The Old Songs: The A.L. Phipps Family & Its Music, David Taylor

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

An ethnographic study of the musical traditions of the A. L. Phipps Family, of Barbourville, Kentucky, reveals various social forces which have affected the family's repertoire and performance career. A life history of the family, compiled from extensive fieldwork, is presented along with analyses of the Phippses' secular music, sacred songs, and their performance career. The family is clearly representative of the musical traditions of the upland South, drawing its music from sources common to most white Appalachian singers. A discography of the Phipps Family's recordings is included along with a selection of photographs highlighting their life and performance career.

Mary Cassatt/Edgar Degas And Clara Wieck/Robert Schumann: The Comparative Status Of Female And Male Artists And Composers In The Nineteenth Century, Carol Ann Munchel O.S.F.

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The nineteenth century bequeathed few women artists and composers to art and music history as currently recorded. Those women, noted by biographers and historians, seem to be inferior to their male contemporaries in status and significance. This paper has attempted to trace the development of two women in the arts, Mary Cassatt and Clara Wieck, and in comparing their talent, growth, and contributions, uncover possible reasons for the inequality of repute they have been given. The problem, then, was to discover any significant differences in the education, criticism, and acceptance of nineteenth-century artists and composers on the basis of sex. …

From The Director's Desk, Martin Chusid

Verdi Forum

No abstract provided.

The Danville Congress, Andrew Porter

Verdi Forum

Recap of the Fifth International Verdi Congress held at the University of Danville (Kentucky) in 1977, with a focus on the opera Macbeth.

New Verdi Documents, Mary Jane Phillips-Matz

Verdi Forum

No abstract provided.

Jean Thomas' American Folk Song Festival : British Balladry In Eastern Kentucky., Marshall A. Portnoy

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Serious musicological research initiated in the first decades of the twentieth century in America uncovered vast riches of British folk music that had been transplanted to these shores by early pioneers. In the mountains of Appalachia, traditional British ballads remained miraculously unspoiled, and distinguished researchers from Britain and America published many volumes of such songs. Jean Thomas, a legal stenographer born in eastern Kentucky in 1881, became fascinated with this phenomenon. She came to believe that an annual festival of mountain music would help ensure the survival of this art and, in 1930, she founded the American Folk Song Festival. …