Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by FAS Department "Music"
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Performing the Humanities at the Ethiopian Millennium
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The Power of Silent Voices: Women in the Syrian Jewish Musical Tradition
(Routledge, 2009)In much of the Jewish and Islamic Middle East, women have been constrained by religious precept from participating publicly in musical performance. This chapter explores one such case study in detail – the Syrian Jewish ... -
The Principles of Microtiming and Musical Photorealism
(2009)A detailed description of the process by which microtiming data (in milliseconds) and sound energy data (in decibels) generated by LARA is transformed into musical notation, followed by a brief summary of the genesis of ... -
Rain, God, and Unity among the Kotas
(Oxford University Press, 1997) -
Rethinking the Urban Community: Re (Mapping) Musical Processes and Places
(Fakulta humanitních studií Univerzity Karlovy, 2012)Urban musical research continues to present theoretical and methodological challenges. This paper suggests a revised approach to the study of the urban diaspora community, mapping ways in which musical processes have been ... -
The Rhythms of Raga Alapana in South Indian Music: A Preliminary Investigation
(Ashgate Publishing Group, 2010) -
Riemann and Melodic Analysis: Studies in Folk-Musical Tonality
(Oxford University Press, 2011)This article discusses Riemann's Folkloristische Tonalitätsstudien or “Studies in Folk-Musical Tonality”. While his study at a glance seemed to contradict his earlier beliefs on tonality as a natural and universal system, ... -
Some Account of the Practice of Microtiming and Musical Photorealism
(2009)A detailed description of the process by which microtiming data (in milliseconds) and sound energy data (in decibels) generated by LARA is transformed into musical notation, followed by a brief summary of the genesis of ... -
The Still-Life Paintings of William Michael Harnett (Their Reflections upon Nineteenth-Century American Musical Culture)
(Oxford University Press, 1977) -
The Structure of Plato's Dialogues and Greek Music Theory: A Response to J. B. Kennedy
(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2011)J. B. Kennedy recently proposed a radical new interpretation of the Platonic dialogues, arguing that their stichometric structure is based in a Greek twelve-tone musical scale. We explore to what extent such an interpretation ... -
Studying U.S. Music in the 21st Century: A Colloquium
(University of California Press, 2011) -
Studying U.S. Music in the Twenty-First Century
(University of California Press, 2011) -
Style and Tradition in Karaikkudi Vina Playing
(University of Hawaii Press, 1991) -
Three Music-Theory Lessons
(Informa UK Limited, 2016)This article is an attempt to understand music theory from the perspective of written and sounding media. It examines three radically different music-theoretical practices, which operate with different forms of written ... -
Three Perspectives on Music and the Idea of Tribe in India
(University of Texas Press, 2000) -
Von 茉莉花 zu Moo-Lee-Chwa. Geschichte eines musikalischen Transfers ca. 1796
(VWB Verlag, 2017)Das dünne Notenheft, das mit dem englischen „Two Original Chinese Songs, Moo-Lee-Chwa – High Highaw, for the PianoForte or Harpsichord“ betitelt ist und ca. 1796 in London erschienen ist, erscheint zunächst nicht weiter ...