to study piano and composition at the Hochschule fur Musik. She found the training there to be boring and soon left to marry Henry Lew, a Polish musicologist who encouraged her to delve deeper into her interest in early music. They settled in Paris where she became involved with the Schola Cantorum...
Hear my cry, hear my call Hold my hand lest I fall Take my hand precious Lord, lead me home Many of the spirituals and gospels were what musicologist refer to as Call and Response songs. These songs brought a sense of unity throughout its audience. In this type of lyricism the leader calls out...
aesthetics of music. In the 19th century, a significant debate arose between Eduard Hanslick, a music critic and musicologist, and composer Richard Wagner. Harry Partch and some other musicologists, such as Kyle Gann, have studied and tried to popularize microtonal music and the usage of alternate musical...
modern music? What were the consequences of this on music of the 20th century? The Prelude to Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde has been described by musicologists as the founding platform of modern music (Farjeon, 1931, pp. 983; Kramer, 2004, pp. 256). This is greatly reflected in Wagner’s unique compositional...
harmonic assault on the ears is very difficult. The piece’s discordant nature makes it very difficult to understand the functions of the harmony. Musicologist William Austin writes, “To identify the structural functions of Stravinsky’s harmony is very difficult; to demonstrate them conclusively may be...
poetic preludes, analogous to those of a great contemporary poet, who cradles the soul in golden dreams..."[9] Among more recent assessments, musicologist Henry Finck said that "if all piano music in the world were to be destroyed, excepting one collection, my vote should be cast for Chopin's Preludes...
say there is good and bad music. What may be called country because it emanates from Nashville may be called rock if it comes from Seattle,” says Musicologist Barry McCloud. The classification of music is meaningless to many fans and artists. The problem occurs when a genre begins to sell product and...
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Abandoned Sorceress. Designed to tour rare works in concert format, II Complesso was set up in 2001 in collaboration with another US exile in Italy, the musicologist Alan Curtis. ‘It started as a one-off. There was a rare Handel opera, Arminio, that Alan thought should be performed, and it became an obsession...
also writing a critical study of Gurney's work for Boydell and Brewer. Kate organises a conference every two years in Cambridge to bring together musicologists and literary critics focussing on the First World War. She will be guest editing the Journal of First World War Studies, based at Birmingham University...