Müzik

As the status of poetry became less and less certain over the course of the nineteenth century, poets such as Baudelaire and Mallarmé began to explore ways to ensure that poetry would not be overtake …

Bringing together diverse scholars to represent the full historical breadth of the early modern period, and a wide range of disciplines (literature, women”s studies, folklore, ethnomusicology, art h …

Sir Thomas Beecham is often described as having ”championed” the music of Frederick Delius, and this is no exaggeration. From the moment he heard Delius”s music as a young man, Beecham was captiva …

Basso continuo accompaniment calls upon a complex tapestry of harmonic, rhythmic, compositional, analytical and improvisational skills. The evolving knowledge that underpinned the performance of bass …

Synopsis of Vocal Musick, by the unidentified A.B., was published in London in 1680 and appears to have only ever had one edition. Its relatively short shelf-life belies its importance to the history …

The traditional approach to the study of Goethe and Schubert is to place them in opposition to one another, both in terms of their life experiences and in relation to the nineteenth-century Lied. In …

When Ruth Gipps died in 1999, her legacy was as one of Britain”s most prolific female composers. Her creative output spanned some seventy years and includes symphonies, tone poems, concertos, string …

In France during the 1960s and 1970s, popular music became a key component of socio-cultural modernisation as the music/record industry became increasingly important in both economic and cultural ter …

Why does poetry appeal to music? Can music be said to communicate, as language does? What, between music and poetry, is it possible to translate? These fundamental questions have remained obstinately …

Musicology, having been transmitted as a compilation of disparate events and disciplines, has long necessitated a ”magic bullet”, a ”unified field theory” so to speak, that can interpret the stea …