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The “Gibson Les Paul” Guitar—Conception, Prototype and Production: A Study Through Counterfactuals Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Darryl Martin
The use of counterfactuals (“what-ifs”) has been a recognized approach in some fields within the humanities, in particular military history, where alternate scenarios can be readily proposed. As an...
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Pedagogy Captured in Print: Student-Teacher Duos in Banchieri’s Cartella musicale (1614) Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Lynette Bowring
In this article, I open a window onto early seventeenth-century efforts to connect theory, pedagogy, and creative practice through selections from Adriano Banchieri’s exercises for two voices in th...
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“The Real Kazakh is a Dombyra”?: Musical Instruments and Nation Branding in 21st-Century Kazakhstan Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-29 Megan Rancier
Although both the two-string plucked lute dombyra and two-stringed horsehair fiddle qyl-qobyz possess strong ties to the nomadic heritage of the Kazakhs, the dombyra embodies a much more public, ac...
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On Organology: Introduction to the Organology Special Issue Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-29 Rachael Durkin
Organology, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, concerns “the study of the history of musical instruments.” This very narrow definition focuses on the past, and perhaps frames the field as ...
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A Socioeconomic Approach to Studying Musical Instruments Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Jenny Nex
Considering musical instrument makers as socio-economic actors can inform narratives concerning not only the music business but also wider commercial activities. Makers use available materials, wor...
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Musical Instruments and Palimpsestic Identity Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Stephen Cottrell
Palimpsests are conventionally understood to be manuscripts that have been reused or recycled, with traces of earlier inscriptions identifiable under later writings. Metaphorically, the term connot...
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Phantom Hands Will Live Forever: Reading the Player Piano Anew Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Rachael Durkin
The player piano is one of the most overlooked musical instruments of the early 20th century. I present here a new historical reading of the player piano, drawing together the fields of organology,...
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Ecosystems and Sounding Lives: Musical Instrument Makers in Greater Central Asia Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Jennifer Post
Environmental changes present new challenges for twenty-first century musical instrument makers who continue customary practices but are also forced to make visual and sonic changes due to eroding ...
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The Cambridge Companion to Amy Beach Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Megan Lyons
Published in Journal of Musicological Research (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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On Music Theory and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Rina Sugawara
Published in Journal of Musicological Research (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Kanon im Repertoire und in der musikalischen Praxis: Essays und Interviews Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Tina Frühauf
Published in Journal of Musicological Research (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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A Review of Public Musicology Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Reba A. Wissner
Published in Journal of Musicological Research (Vol. 42, No. 4, 2023)
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About the Authors Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-08
Published in Journal of Musicological Research (Vol. 42, No. 4, 2023)
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Hound Dog Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Matt Brounley
Published in Journal of Musicological Research (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Composing Anxious Voices: Aesthetic Distance, Empathy, and Musical Rhetoric in Two Ossian-Inspired Works by Louis Spohr and Carl Maria von Weber Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 James Porter
Published in Journal of Musicological Research (Vol. 42, No. 4, 2023)
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Correction Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-18
Published in Journal of Musicological Research (Vol. 42, No. 4, 2023)
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Don Giovanni Captured: Performance, Media, Myth; Opera Lab: Explorations in History, Technology, and Performance Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Kristi Brown-Montesano
Published in Journal of Musicological Research (Vol. 42, No. 4, 2023)
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“The Wanderer: Public musicology and the logic of content creation” Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Phil Ford
Published in Journal of Musicological Research (Vol. 42, No. 4, 2023)
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Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Douglas W. Shadle
Published in Journal of Musicological Research (Vol. 42, No. 4, 2023)
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About the Authors Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-13
Published in Journal of Musicological Research (Vol. 42, No. 3, 2023)
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Pop Masculinities: The Politics of Gender in Twenty-First Century Popular Music Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Mark Duffett
Published in Journal of Musicological Research (Vol. 42, No. 3, 2023)
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Bach against Modernity Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Samuel Breene
Published in Journal of Musicological Research (Vol. 42, No. 3, 2023)
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A Review of Podcasting: Time for a Musicology Podcasting Revolution? Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Emily Ruth Allen
Published in Journal of Musicological Research (Vol. 42, No. 3, 2023)
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Wild Sound: Maryanne Amacher and the Tenses of Audible Life Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Charissa Noble
Published in Journal of Musicological Research (Vol. 42, No. 3, 2023)
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Hercules, Vampires, and the Opera of Attractions Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Brooke McCorkle Okazaki
Opera’s specter has long haunted film and more recently, film haunts opera productions seeking to entice new audiences. Patrick Morganelli’s opera Hercules vs. Vampires (2010) harnesses the tension...
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Auenbruggers, Sensibility, and the Instrumental Bodies Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Keri Hui
In conceiving the ideal of the man or woman of sensibility, many eighteenth-century philosophers and writers described the human body as a living instrument. The Austrian physician Josef Leopold Au...
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Roundtable: Pedagogical Approaches to Music Encoding Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-02
Published in Journal of Musicological Research (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The Boston Pops: An American Institution and Its European Roots Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Ayden Adler
ABSTRACT This article traces the historical origins and influences that led the early leaders of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) to offer both “symphony concerts” and “popular concerts” on the same stage. Although scholars of nineteenth-century orchestral music align the end of “mixed” repertory with the rise of non-touring orchestral institutions based in urban centers, that tradition continued
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About the Authors, volume 42, no. 1 Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-16
Published in Journal of Musicological Research (Vol. 42, No. 1, 2023)
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Lying in the Middle: Musical Theater and Belief at the Heart of America Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-16 Kelly Kessler
Published in Journal of Musicological Research (Vol. 42, No. 1, 2023)
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Kauffman Prize Announcement Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-02
Published in Journal of Musicological Research (Vol. 42, No. 1, 2023)
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“But I Have No Recollection…”: Representations of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Schoenberg’s A Survivor from Warsaw Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Jessica H. Grimmer
ABSTRACT Arnold Schoenberg’s 1947 A Survivor from Warsaw relates a traumatic experience through the eyes of the titular narrator, frequently meditating on the theme of disrupted memory. This article draws on medical research and the pathology of PTSD as presented in Holocaust survivors. The simultaneous decline of conscious memory and increase in unconscious memory that emerges from medical research
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Fantasy Aesthetic and Franz Schubert’s “Magical” Transitions in Sonata Forms Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Sio Pan Leong
ABSTRACT This article examines Franz Schubert’s sonata-form transitions within the context of Romanticism’s stylized fantasy aesthetic. The analysis draws from the G Major Quartet (D. 887), E♭ Major Trio (D. 929), and C Major Quintet (D. 956). I argue that Schubert’s unique blending of two distinct tonal syntaxes in this music creates a moment of the fantastic, evoking a sense of “magic” where reality
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Music, Gender, and Sexuality Studies: A Teacher’s Guide Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Anna-Elena Pääkkölä
Published in Journal of Musicological Research (Vol. 42, No. 1, 2023)
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About the Authors Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-04-11
Published in Journal of Musicological Research (Vol. 41, No. 4, 2022)
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Mabel Daniels: an American Composer in Transition, by Maryann McCabe, London and New York, Routledge, 2018, xv, 300 pp., $160 (hardback), ISBN 9781472424518. Augusta Browne: Composer and Woman of Letters in Nineteenth-Century America, by Bonny H. Miller, Rochester, University of Rochester Press, 2020, xv, 457 pp. $125 (hardback), ISBN 9781580469722. Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Marian Wilson Kimber
Published in Journal of Musicological Research (Vol. 41, No. 4, 2022)
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Sonic Overload: Alfred Schnittke, Valentin Silvestrov, and Polystylism in the Late USSR Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Nathan Friedman
Published in Journal of Musicological Research (Vol. 41, No. 4, 2022)
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Popular Opera in Eighteenth-Century France: Music and Entertainment before the Revolution Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Julia Prest
Published in Journal of Musicological Research (Vol. 41, No. 4, 2022)
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The Easter Sonata of Fanny Mendelssohn (1828) Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-10-03 Angela Mace Christian
ABSTRACT Fanny Mendelssohn committed her Easter Sonata to paper in 1828, thereafter mentioning it only briefly in her diary and letters in 1829. Whether the manuscript survived, and if so where it was, remained a mystery until the 1970s when the work was performed in Paris, France. In 2010, the manuscript was rediscovered and positively identified as a work by Fanny Mendelssohn. This article presents
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Dreams and Intertextuality in Chopin’s A-Minor Prelude Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-08-18 Zbigniew Granat
ABSTRACT This article focuses on a unique relationship that Chopin’s Prelude in A Minor, Op. 28, No. 2 shares with the Lieder of Franz Schubert. Proceeding from the topical analysis of the Prelude, I examine the role of the Parisian salon and the little-known influence of Schubert’s music on Chopin. I then present two songs by Schubert that, I will claim, function as hitherto unnoticed models for his
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Of Majesty, Mockery, and Misprints: The Coda of Shostakovich’s Fifth on Record Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Peter Kupfer
ABSTRACT Drawing on work by José Bowen, Nicholas Cook, and Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, in this article I examine the performance history of the coda of Dmitry Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony (1937) through statistical analysis of tempo in 152 recordings made between 1938 and 2019. I contextualize the trends that emerge from this data within the unique mix of errors, myths, and ideologies that have informed
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About the Authors Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-08-12
Published in Journal of Musicological Research (Vol. 41, No. 2, 2022)
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Gerald Finzi’s Letters, 1915-1956 Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-06-17 Stephen Banfield
Published in Journal of Musicological Research (Vol. 41, No. 3, 2022)
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Musical Solidarities: Political Action and Music in Late Twentieth-Century Poland Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-06-10 David G. Tompkins
Published in Journal of Musicological Research (Vol. 41, No. 3, 2022)
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The Big Parade: Meredith Willson’s Musicals from The Music Man to 1491 Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-06-10 Jake Johnson
Published in Journal of Musicological Research (Vol. 41, No. 3, 2022)
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Hugh Macdonald, Bizet in Italy: Letters and Journals, 1857–1860, The Boydell Press, Woodbridge UK, 2021, £45, $90 ISBN 978 1 78 327580 9 Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-05-23 Richard Langham Smith
Published in Journal of Musicological Research (Vol. 41, No. 2, 2022)
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The Logic of Filtering: How Noise Shapes the Sound of Recorded Music Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-05-20 Cody Black
Published in Journal of Musicological Research (Vol. 41, No. 2, 2022)
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Performing Commemoration: Musical Reenactment and the Politics of Trauma Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Karen L. Uslin
Published in Journal of Musicological Research (Vol. 41, No. 2, 2022)
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Intersections, Divergences, and Cross Sections: Eduard Steuermann, the Busoni-Schoenberg Nexus, and a Broadening of Compositional Procedures in the Twentieth Century Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-28 Erinn Knyt
ABSTRACT Eduard Steuermann is remembered primarily as a protégé of Arnold Schoenberg, with whom he studied theory and composition from 1912 to 1914. However, he also studied with Ferruccio Busoni beginning in 1910, maintaining contact with him until at least 1922. Although Schoenberg’s influence on Steuermann is well documented, little has been written about Busoni’s impact, including the lasting effect
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Singing and Speaking in Early Twentieth-Century Zarzuela: The Evidence from Early Recordings Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-21 Eva Moreda Rodríguez
ABSTRACT The present article draws upon thirty years of recorded evidence (from the first wax cylinders made in the late nineteenth century, to the first electrical recordings of the 1920s and early 1930s) to study two modes of voice production used in Spanish zarzuela: one indebted to operatic singing, characterized by timbral modification and widespread vibrato; and another one more connected to
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The Songs of Fanny Hensel Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Angela Mace Christian
(2022). The Songs of Fanny Hensel. Journal of Musicological Research: Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 50-53.
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Industry: Bang on a Can and New Music in the Marketplace Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Caitlin Schmid
(2022). Industry: Bang on a Can and New Music in the Marketplace. Journal of Musicological Research: Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 54-56.
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The Cambridge Companion to Schubert’s Winterreise Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 James Parsons
(2022). The Cambridge Companion to Schubert’s Winterreise. Journal of Musicological Research: Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 57-59.
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About the Authors Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-02-09
(2022). About the Authors. Journal of Musicological Research: Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 60-60.
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Kauffman Prize, Journal of Musicological Research Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Hilary Poriss
Published in Journal of Musicological Research (Vol. 41, No. 2, 2022)
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Creative Authorship and the Filipina Diva Atang de la Rama Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Isidora K. Miranda
ABSTRACT This essay focuses on the career of Honorata “Atang” de la Rama on the popular sarsuwela and vaudeville stages during the period of American colonization in the Philippines. Through sound recordings, reviews, photos, and her own writings, I amplify de la Rama’s musical and metaphorical voice to address the important role of women in Philippine music and popular culture. Her work highlights
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The Concept Album and the Early Music Revival Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Alon Schab
ABSTRACT Early music has been recorded for over half a century but most of its pre-1600 repertoire resists the programming conventions accepted in classical-romantic albums. Instead, the early music revival has developed its own unique approach to recording, inspired by innovations in musical styles other than classical music. The emergence of the rock concept album in the 1960s helped to shape the
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Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-10-12 Celeste Day Moore
(2021). Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production. Journal of Musicological Research: Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 356-358.
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Musik und Gesellschaft: Marktplätze, Kampfzonen, Elysium Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-10-12 Jürgen Thym
(2021). Musik und Gesellschaft: Marktplätze, Kampfzonen, Elysium. Journal of Musicological Research: Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 359-361.
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Beyond Fingal’s Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination Journal of Musicological Research (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-10-14 Sarah Clemmens Waltz
(2021). Beyond Fingal’s Cave: Ossian in the Musical Imagination. Journal of Musicological Research: Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 362-365.