A LUDIC OPERA: “POST-FICTION” BY DAN DEDIU by Sanda HÎRLAV MAISTOROVICI

“… The article A Ludic Opera: Post-Fiction by Dan Dediu comprises a short presentation of the composer’s older opus, which was performed for the first time at The International Week of New Music in 1996. Starting from musicologist Irinel Anghel’s remark that the opus has “a typically post-modern, opera-within-an-opera character”, the article advances an analytical framework that leads to the idea that the structure of the libretto and the musical scaffolding manifest filiations from and connections with Pirandelli’s outlook on theatre. …”
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Signification, Objectification, and the Mimetic Uncanny in Claude Debussy’s “Golliwog’s Cakewalk” by Elizabeth de Martelly

“…Dance historian and musicologist Davinia Caddy’s exploration of the cakewalk traces the history of the dance from its roots in African-American slavery, to popular American entertainment, and finally to its arrival on the French soil as a white, bourgeois leisure activity.…”
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Serbian musical criticism and essay writings during the XIXth and the first half of the XXth century as a subject of musicology research by Vasić Aleksandar N.

“…Professor Stana Djurić-Klajn was the first Serbian musicologist to work in this field of Serbian music history. …”
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Nationalist, Hemispheric, and Global: “Latin American Music” and the Music Division of the Pan American Union, 1939-1947 by Pablo Palomino

“…Under the direction of musicologist Charles Seeger, the Music Division of the Pan American Union promoted musical and musicological exchanges valorizing both the region’s national traditions and their common hemispheric identity. …”
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Művészi önéletrajz régen és ma a koncertszervező szemszögéből by Márta-Adrienne Elekes

“…But the experience will set quick limits for the shaping and even for the content. The musicologist will draw a very short historical background and the music secretary wishes to share some interesting professional secrets on this topic.…”
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Manuscript collection of V. F. Odoyevsky, as asource for studying the theory of ancient Russian singing by Eugenia Ed. Vishnievskaya

“…The article deals with issues related to the return to the native ancient Russian singing tradition in the theory and practice of church singing in Russia of the 1850-s – 1860-s of the 19th century and the leading role in this process of the musicologist and musical theorist V. F. Odoyevsky. The composition and the content of Odoevsky's manuscript collection, which is stored in the Department of manuscripts of the Russian state library, including the largest musical and theoretical works of the XVII century, is revealed. …”
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Pracovní paměti - nikoli sentimentální : k 70. narozeninám PhDr. Stanislava Tesaře by Miloš Schnierer

“…Tesař specialized as a musicologist in questions of medieval hymnology, which he still deals with; he presented the concepts and intensions also in public at the respective conference in Olomouc.…”
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Review of Susan Thomas. 2009. Cuban Zarzuela: Performing Race and Gender on Havana’s Lyric Stage. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois by Marti Newland

“…In Cuban Zarzuela: Performing Race and Gender on Havana’s Lyric Stage, musicologist Susan Thomas draws on her years of archival work in Cuba and the work of a broad collection of scholars including Homi Bhabha, Judith Butler, Karen Henson, and Robin Moore to detail the development and performance practices of an understudied genre of Cuban opera, “zarzuela.” …”
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HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS E A INTERNACIONALIZAÇÃO DA “EDUCAÇÃO MUSICAL”: ICONOGRAFIA, AMERICANISMO MUSICAL E PAN-AMERICANISMO (1933-1946). Dossiê: História, Política e Relações Internacio... by Loque Arcanjo Junior., Alexandre Reis Santos, Juliana Caetano Machado

“…For this purpose, the letters exchanged between Villa-Lobos and the Teuto-Uruguayan musicologist, present in the musicologist's personal and professional collection, became important documents, considering them as important historical sources as constructions of sociocultural relations; the analysis of newspaper clippings from the 1930s and 1940s, present at the Villa-Lobos Museum; and the study of iconography present in the Latin American Music Bulletin, published in 1946. …”
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BOOK REVIEW: WHY THIS BOOK HAS BECOME SO NECESSARY TO ME (PASCAL BENTOIU, “GÂNDIREA MUZICALĂ” (MUSICAL THINKING), BUCHAREST: EIKON, 2022, 2ᴺᴰ EDITION) by Oleg GARAZ

“…Just as he did years ago when he accepted several interview questions from a novice musicologist. …”
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History and Theory of Musical Writing as an Academic Discipline by Stanislav E. Englin

“…The article outlines the reasons why the modern musicologist must be competent in matters of history and theory of a notation. …”
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Franz Liszt’s Contacts with Croatian Musicians and Dignitaries by Vjera Katalinić, Sara Ries

“…His sojourn was remembered mostly after the interpretation of the Croatian musicologist Franjo Ksaver Kuhač (1834−1911) in his article Reminiscences of Dr Franz Liszt, published in 1908, where he insisted on a strong political implication of the Croatian situation at that time. …”
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Encounters with music in the study of the History of art: the contribution of the Monastery of San Millán de la Cogolla (La Rioja) by Begoña Arrue Ugarte

“…This article aims to report on the encounter between art history and musicology within the professional practice of the art historian and, in this context, to provide the musicologist new knowledge elements for further specialized research. …”
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Nuper rosarum flores: The Cathedral Conundrum by Jacy A. Stahlhut

“…Franco-Flemish composer Guillaume Dufay was commissioned to write a motet for the occasion, and the resulting work, Nuper rosarum flores, has sparked a great deal of controversy in the musicological realm. In 1973, musicologist Charles Warren claimed that the isorhythmic proportions of the motet reflected the architectural proportions of the cathedral, but Craig Wright later exposed several flaws within Warren’s analysis, suggesting instead that the motet’s unique proportional structure was intended to reflect King Solomon’s Temple as described in scripture. …”
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The Elusive Search for Nora Luca: Tony Gatlif's Adventures in Gypsy Land by Sylvie Eve Blum-Reid

“…The film ventures on the icy roads of Romania and casts a young French man in search for Nora Luca’s voice, a woman taped by his musicologist father. The young man is adopted by a Romanian Gypsy community and initiated to Gypsy culture. …”
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Le choix du mode musical comme geste compositionnel poético-rhétorique des monodies accompagnées : l’exemple de Giulio Caccini (c.1550-1618) by Fabien Delouvé

“…This point raises many questions for a musicologist : is Caccini’s musical mode or the performer’s voice the vehicle of the affects of the poem ? …”
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Znamenny scale – fait accompli? by Alexei Yaropolov

“…The author is based on the writings of Russian musicologist and organologist Felix Raudonikas.…”
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The Most Significant Musical Source of the Premonstratensian Abbey in Jasov: An Adiastematic Fragment of an Unknown Breviary, Shelfmark KF of Inc 164 by Janka Bednáriková

“…It could draw on the fundamental research on medieval Latin sources carried out by the codicologist Július Sopko in the 1980s and on the specialized articles of the musicologists Konštantín Hudec, Richard Rybarič, Ľubomír Vajdička, and Zuzana Czagányová. …”
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BOOK REVIEW: WHY THIS BOOK HAS BECOME SO NECESSARY TO ME (PASCAL BENTOIU, “GÂNDIREA MUZICALĂ” (MUSICAL THINKING), BUCHAREST: EIKON, 2022, 2ᴺᴰ EDITION) by Oleg GARAZ

“…Just as he did years ago when he accepted several interview questions from a novice musicologist. …”
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The Other Marxism: Georg Knepler and the Anthropology of Music by Golan Gur

“…The Viennese-born musicologist Georg Knepler (1906-2003) was one of the most important music scholars of the twentieth-century. …”
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