It is dusk and the young Gypsy clings to his Zemfira. Both Gypsies hope to remain until daylight, despite the dire tragedy they know this might bring. If Zemifa’s non-Gypsy […]
Read MoreOriginally published in: Johannes Ockeghem. Actes du XLe Colloque international d’études humanistes Tours, 3-8 février 1997, Klincksieck 1998, pp. 253-270. READING LABORDE The Significance of Johannes Ockeghem’s chansons in the […]
Read MoreThe French musical manuscript in Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, Ms. 2794, and the ‘Loire Valley’ chansonniers http://chansonniers.pwch.dk/NOTES/Flo2794art.html
Read MoreSchoenberg, Unfolding, and “Composing With Twelve Tones”: A Case Study (Op. 25/I) John Brackett Introduction “Composition is: thinking in tones and rhythms. Every piece of music is the presentation of […]
Read MoreThis article has been inadvertently deleted and is now again at your disposition Syntonality is a system of composition designed to provide composers with the ability to control the tension/relaxation […]
Read MoreOriginally published in: International Journal of Musicology 2 – 1993, pp. 61-83 Text and Music as ‘Spiel’ – Humour in Ockeghem’s Chanson “L’aultre d’antan” “Dufay the Reader”2 is the title […]
Read MoreOriginally published in Musica Disciplina XLIV (1990), pp. 185-231 In his “Livre de l’Esperance”1 (ca. 1429/30), Alain Chartier developed a favourite topic of the 15th century which became the main […]
Read MoreSteven Jan THE ILLUSORY MOZART: SELFISH MEMES IN THE PRIESTS’ MARCHES FROM IDOMENEO AND DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE for Julian Rushton I want to claim almost limitless power for slightly inaccurate self-replicating […]
Read MoreThe Relationship Between Minor Mode Music And Sadness By Milton C. Heifetz There appears to be a general consensus among musicologists that music written in the minor mode is more […]
Read MoreTopoi and Melodic Morphology in the Operas of Donizetti Rodney Stenning Edgecombe For as long as there has been literature in the world, there have also been genres, the institutions […]
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