This conversation marks the completion of the trilogy The guitar in Tudor England (Cambridge, 2015), The guitar in Stuart England (Cambridge, 2017) and The guitar in Georgian England (New Haven and London, 2020), by Christopher Page.

Over the course of two three-year research projects funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and hosted at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, a team led by Agnese Pavanello has produced a substantial amount of original research on the late 15th- and early 16th-century compositional phenomenon of the motet cycle. The most famous of such cycles originated at the ducal court of Milan, with examples

ABSTRACT This study examines the role music and social media can play in forming and revising cultural memory. We analyze responses to a call delivered on Facebook to suggest and discuss the Israeli “soundtrack of memory” and compare this user-generated “playlist” to the list of songs broadcast over Israel’s Memorial Day. We show that users conduct a critical dialogue with the traditional memory culture

The purpose of this study is to explore interstitial spaces in higher music education. Interstitial spaces are small-scale settings where individuals interact around common activities. Drawing from the learning experiences of three students, the disparate feelings that students have within the interstices are unpacked. Specifically, we lean on Michel Foucault’s notions of power and hierarchy as a way

Curious as to why conducting gesture are both acknowledged and ignored by choral singers, this article investigates the enigmatic nature of the act of conducting. Education and research are biased toward gestural aspects of the choral conductor role. At the same time, research shows that gestural skills rank strikingly low compared with other musical skills and interpersonal skills. This study endeavors

AbstractThe Grand Tour was the highpoint of the education of the sons of many members of the British upper classes. Despite its contributions to British culture, the Tour came in for contemporary objection and satire. More recently Richard Leppert has used his construct of 18th-century British ideology of gender, class and music to argue that men’s musical activities on the Tour were devalued. This

There can be no doubting that Jeremy Montagu was a towering figure in the field of Organology, both concerning Western and ethnological instruments. He may not have aspired to either a professorship or even a doctorate, but in different circumstances would surely have merited both.

(2021). Live in Boston 1982: The Complete Concert. Popular Music and Society. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Destination Lonely Street: 32 Tearjerkers for My Shadow, My Echo, and Me. Popular Music and Society. Ahead of Print.

(2021). More Than Just Sixteen Candles. Popular Music and Society. Ahead of Print.

Because teaching is an inherently political act, it is important for music teacher educators to consider their role in the public discourse and how they approach the political dimensions of teaching with future music educators. In this interest article, we offer a theoretical basis for engaging preservice music teachers in critical reflection and productive dialogue throughout their undergraduate music

Many view music teacher education as a locus for socially just transformation of music education through the development of preservice teacher agency and identity development. However, few have directly examined values in music teacher preparation programs, and values are implicit in agency. The purpose of this exploratory, intrinsic case study was to investigate the visible values in music education

(2021). Special issue: Decolonising music and music studies. Ethnomusicology Forum: Vol. 30, Decolonising Music and Music Studies, pp. 4-8.

(2021). Music and sound in times of violence, displacement and conflict. Ethnomusicology Forum. Ahead of Print.

(2021). The Politics of Diversity in Music Education. Music Education Research. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT This study deals with the meaning that musicians and non-musicians attach to two contemporary railway noise compositions as conveyed through verbal and audio-graphic responses. The purpose of this mixed-method study was twofold: (1) to examine similarities and differences between musicians and non-musicians in their responses to contemporary train-noise music; (2) to explore the effect of

English Abstract: Although Francisco Andreví Castellá is not a household name outside of Spain, he looms large in the history of nineteenth-century music in Spain, as he does in that country's present-day musicological activities. Moreover, Andreví, who served at a number of important musical institutions, including the royal chapel of Ferdinand VII, was a prolific composer. My catalogue accounts for

English Abstract: This article presents the music inventory of the French Court at the time of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy (1805–1814) with Milan as capital, currently kept in the State Archives of Milan among the inventories of the properties already owned by the French court of Beauharnais. The detailed list includes sacred music for the court chapel, music for the academies—that is for concerts

English Abstract: José Soler Casabón, the Spanish musician and poet, is an artistic figure little recognised both nationally and worldwide despite having produced high quality musical works. What is perhaps his greatest work, the ballet he composed in Paris entitled L'homme sans yeux, sans nez et sans oreilles (Ho.S.Y.N.O.) is analysed in this article. The ballet is based on the poem Le musicien de

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Briefs / Feuilletons James P. Cassaro, Julianna Gócza, and Mari Itoh RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text New Additions for July 2021 This summer, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text (https://www.rilm.org/abstracts/) will add ten more titles to its full-text journal collection. The new titles are: Bašćinski glasi:

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Ina Lohr (1903–1983): Transcending the Boundaries of Early Music by Anne Smith Mimi Mitchell Ina Lohr (1903–1983): Transcending the Boundaries of Early Music. By Anne Smith. Basel, Switzerland: Schwabe Verlag, 2020. [514 p. ISBN 978-3-7965-4106-3. 82 CHF] Ina Lohr (1903–1983): Transcending the Boundaries of Early Music is

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Sweet Penance of Music: Musical Life in Colonial Santiago de Chile by Alejandro Vera Hannah Snavely The Sweet Penance of Music: Musical Life in Colonial Santiago de Chile. By Alejandro Vera. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. (Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music.) [ix, 436 p. ISBN 978-01-9094-021-8 $99]

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Ludwig Senfl (c.1490–1543): A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works and Sources. Volume 1: Catalogue of the Works. Volume 2: Catalogue of the Sources–Abbreviations, Bibliography, Indexes by Stefan Gasch and Sonja Tröster, in collaboration with Birgit Lodes Joseph Sargent Ludwig Senfl (c.1490–1543): A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Eubie Blake: Rags, Rhythm, and Race by Richard Carlin and Ken Bloom Aaron J. West Eubie Blake: Rags, Rhythm, and Race. By Richard Carlin and Ken Bloom. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. [xvi, 456 p. ISBN 978-0-190-63593-0. $20] Richard Carlin and Ken Bloom's Eubie Blake: Rags, Rhythm, and Race chronicles the extraordinary

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical and Qualitative Assessment in Music Education ed. by David J. Elliott, Marissa Silverman, and Gary E. McPherson Michael Gale The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical and Qualitative Assessment in Music Education. Edited By David J. Elliott, Marissa Silverman, and Gary E. McPherson. New York:

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack: Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth Century America by Judah M. Cohen Alon Schab Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack: Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth Century America. By Judah M. Cohen. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. [318 p., 42 b&w illus. ISBN 978-0-253-04021-3. $25]

(2021). Editorial. Ethnomusicology Forum: Vol. 30, Decolonising Music and Music Studies, pp. 1-3.

ABSTARCT Since the death of George Perry Floyd, Jr. (1973–2020), the British Forum for Ethnomusicology has engaged in some intense corporate reflexivity. Since the appointment of the author and other new colleagues to a BFE EDI Working Group, the issues raised by Dr Danielle Brown’s open letter (2020) have led the author to the critical question of how the BFE can learn from the challenges faced by

ABSTRACT Until recently the International Library of African Music (ILAM) was at the receiving end of widespread criticisms because most of its collections were acquired through the colonial privilege of its founder, Hugh Tracey. Tracey recorded music and collected musical instruments in many countries of sub-Sahara Africa without following the rigorous ethical practices which are a necessary requirement

ABSTRACT Musical ideals set by European standards and values, entrenched through colonial oppression and promoted by the continued veneration of Western culture need to be re-evaluated. This short essay in an alternative format of a critical report records the development and implementation of an African instrumental music studies course at Rhodes University, introduced to re-value and promote African

ABSTRACT This report examines the collaborative implications in the revitalisation of indigenous music within a contemporary South African setting. In 2012 ILAM commenced with repatriating Hugh Tracey recordings to communities and the families of performers he had recorded. The main reason for repatriation was to follow the ethical turn adopted by museums and archives across the globe since the early

ABSTRACT This article presents an autoethnographic account of the structures of inequality and legacies of colonial knowledge systems still active in Music departments in a cosmopolitan UK city from the point of view of the studentship. Institutions of Higher Education have increasingly acknowledged the dimensions of difference and exclusion in their spaces, personnel and curricula, mainly through

ABSTRACT This article provides justification for the minority scholar trained in ‘elite’ music analysis (my term) to apply voice-leading analysis to rock band Indian Ocean’s fusion number Kandisa. In so doing, I find a meaningful new way to address decolonisation debates in music. Born and schooled in India, and now based in Ireland, I first reflect on recent tensions around music theory’s white racial

ABSTRACT Teaching ethnomusicology at a South African university as a white female in the context of the 2015–2016 national #FeesMustFall student protests presents a significant challenge. In this article, I discuss the context of Euro-American scholarship on the ethnomusicologist as pedagogue and compare this to the situation in South Africa, using the framing devices of three main statements, namely

ABSTRACT Cultural Europeanisation in Peru has been an aspiration since its independence in 1821. Until 2010 the only institution of higher musical education in Peru had classical European music on a pedestal, rejecting all others, but especially indigenous Andean music. And for the Peruvian state, since its beginnings, the major forms of musical arts were considered to be an expression that originated

(2021). Sailor Song: The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas; Boxing the Compass: A Century and a Half of Discourse About Sailor's Chanties. Ethnomusicology Forum: Vol. 30, Decolonising Music and Music Studies, pp. 166-168.

(2021). Decomposed: the political ecology of music. Ethnomusicology Forum: Vol. 30, Decolonising Music and Music Studies, pp. 172-175.

This article examines the interplay of performing technique and compositional structure in the works of four violinist-composers from late 17th-century German-speaking lands: Johann Jakob Walther, Johann Paul von Westhoff, Heinrich Biber and Johann Georg Pisendel. Focusing on these musicians’ complex polyphonic writing, the article argues that the physical techniques necessary to perform their works—specifically

As part of his policy to establish French artistic supremacy in Europe, Louis XIV encouraged the development of a national musical style spearheaded by two genres that differed radically from anything composed abroad: the tragédie en musique and the motet à grand chœur. The role of Jean-Baptiste Lully in giving the former its distinctive character is well known. But although he never held an official

From a certain point of view, Handel studies already started to be published during his lifetime, with essays, evaluations and polemical pamphlets appearing across several decades even before John Mainwaring’s Memoirs of the life of the late George Frederic Handel (printed in 1760, one year after its subject’s death). With Messiah, the Water Music and Zadok the Priest, and a few popular arias never

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of focus of attention instructions (i.e. focus on the solo, accompaniment, or collaboration) on listeners’ performance evaluations. Participants (N = 159) were inservice band directors who listened to and evaluated the accuracy and expressivity of four excerpts of Haydn’s Concerto for Trumpet in E-Flat Major, which we created by synchronizing recordings

Spanish Conservatories of Music are educational institutions where, for the most part, the culture of Modernity is upheld and an aesthetic musical paradigm is enshrined. In this paper, therefore, it was important to reflect, firstly, on the teaching practices they implement and which have remained faithful to Positivist assertions, in the face of the different educational laws that have been passed

Abstract The fraught relationship between popular music and the various kinds of power in Africa has stimulated intensive scholarship and encouraged heated discussions on the topic. Of special interest seems to be the multifaceted character of that interrelationship. It is generally agreed that artistic expression is influenced by political power and that the two mutually inform and shape each other

Abstract Hybridisation, that is, the blending of different cultural elements to create a new cultural form and identity, has become a significant linguistic feature of hip-hop music in Nigeria. Existing studies have focused largely on the negative roles of hip-hop music describing it as a tool for cultural imperialism and fostering deviant behaviour among youths. However, sparse scholarly attention

ABSTRACT This article seeks to analyze how socio-political changes in the Iberian Peninsula, in the post-dictatorial period affected the course of youth cultures and the penetration of cosmopolitanism. Through a documentary analysis, we examined the diferences/similarities among youth cultures with a focus on the emergence of the Portuguese (post-punk) movement in the late 1970s, the 1980s boom of

This article counterpoints James Hepokoski’s notion of sonata failure (Hepokoski 2002; Hepokoski and Darcy 2006) and the concept of “becoming” advocated by Janet Schmalfeldt (2011) as analytical tools in the developing field of Romantic Formenlehre. Taking Mendelssohn’s overture Zum Märchen von der schönen Melusine as a case study, it develops a taxonomy of process for Romantic form, which is applied

John Byrt died on 15 January, shortly after his 80th birthday, from hospital-acquired Covid-19: tragically, his Covid injection a week before admission had not had time to take effect.

ABSTRACT The unpublished field notes on Native American Yokuts cultures and languages taken by linguist and ethnologist John P. Harrington in 1914–1942, now kept at the Smithsonian Institution, are analysed in the framework of Edward S. Caseýs concept of mapping with/in. The Yokuts’ process of mapping tripni places (powerful places) with/in their ancestral territories during the early twentieth century

For most of her career thus far, Taylor Swift’s cultural outputs have remained apolitical, often addressing heteronormative notions of romance, young adult life, and heartbreak. In 2019, Swift broke her politicised silence with ‘You Need to Calm Down’, a track which self-proclaims the artist as an ally to LGBTQ+ communities through her co-option of language historically used to silence marginalised

In her 2016 speech accepting the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for 1989, Taylor Swift gave a message directed at any young women who were watching: ‘focus on the work’. Taking Swift’s emphasis on ‘the work’ as a guide, this article surveys Swift’s changing compositional techniques and her reception as a songwriter over the course of her career. Though one of the most-discussed figures in popular

Music-based interventions and music lessons modulate cognitive functions, such as language or attention. However, the specific and differential effects of musical activities are a new focus of research. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effect of musical improvisation, a focal musical intervention, on the emotional memory of 4- and 5-year-old children. Each child individually looked at

ABSTRACT The purpose of this case study was to examine the perspectives of three Black instrumental music students related to their experiences attending a predominantly white summer music camp for high school students in the United States. Analysed through a conceptual model of culturally responsive teaching in music, data sources included semi-structured interviews with individual participants, a

Numerous studies have demonstrated the capacity of choral singing to improve human well-being and that, in certain sectors of society (including older adults, prison populations, underprivileged social groups, and mentally illness groups), choral singing bears several benefits. Thus, this descriptive study proposed a comprehensive structural model of the dimensions that comprise choral singing’s contribution

This article compares and examines Reputation and Homecoming, two long-form videos of 2018 performances by Taylor Swift and Beyoncé Knowles, respectively. The videos have much in common, as both were released via Netflix in 2019, and both document important milestones in the career success of two female solo artists. Moreover, the subjects of these videos have risen to the top of an industry that has

The arts, in all forms, have a longer history as a source for healing, mourning, celebrating and marking life’s passages than both psychology or medicine. Yet current western medical models for assessing art’s impact on ‘better’ or ‘worse’ health do not account for a sense of well-being and ‘flourishing’ in wellness/illness situations as music therapist’s have expressed. This paper revisits an exchange

Taylor Swift has lived half her life at the centre of a music industry maelstrom: wildly successful, she built her career at a time when the record industry was just emerging from a decade-long struggle with technological change and industrial and economic upheaval. In this context, Swift stands out as a peculiar anomaly: she can move product (selling millions of physical CDs in a post-CD era), make

This study explored how lyrics, participant-selected music, and emotion trajectory impact self-reported emotional (happiness, sadness, arousal, and valence) and physiological (heart, respiration, and skin conductance rates) responses. Participants were matched (based on sex, age, musicianship, and lyric preference) and assigned to a lyric or instrumental group. Each participant experienced one emotion

This article analyses composer Pamela Z's work in light of critiques of posthumanism from Black studies and sound/music studies. Z's large-scale multimedia work Voci (2003), which the artist describes as a ‘polyphonic mono-opera’, consists of a series of eighteen scenes that combine vocal performance with digital video and audio processing. Z manipulates these sources using the BodySynth, an alternate

ABSTRACT The role of the mobile phone among people on the move has featured in several disciplinary discussions in recent years, but it remains relatively neglected by ethnomusicology. Exploring the gap, this article draws observations from Media and Communications Studies, Migration Studies and Anthropology to bear on a participatory music education project that the author led among unaccompanied

AbstractQueen Caroline (1683–1737) was a long-term supporter of Handel and his music. Her connection to the composer began in 1710 when he was appointed Kapellmeister to the Hanoverian court. In London from 1714 Caroline continued to show interest in music and Handel in particular, helping him to further develop his career. She regularly attended the opera, organized private performances at court,