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Music students' health problems and health-promoting behaviours
No full textThe reported health problems of music performance students at two conservatoires in the UK were investigated, with specific attention to musculoskeletal and nonmusculoskeletal problems in relation to the students' instrumental specialty and their health-promoting behaviours. Students from the Royal Northern College of Music (n = 199) and the Royal College of Music (n = 74) were surveyed using server-based inventories over the internet. They provided 246 usable data sets for this study. Results reveal that musculoskeletal pain as well as nonmusculoskeletal problems were common among students, affecting about half of the sample, with similar patterns between groups of instruments. Regression analysis showed that musculoskeletal and nonmusculoskeletal symptoms reliably predicted perceived practice and performance quality, such that fewer symptoms predicted better quality; the strongest predictors were pain along the spine and fatigue. These results suggest that significant proportions of health problems among music performance students emerge from general dispositions, such as posture and fatigue, and thus are not specific to the instrument played. Healthy lifestyles appear not to affect perceived practice and performance quality
Scriabin's world
No full textIn this programme broadcast on BBC Radio 3, William Mival explores the life and music of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin, with excerpts from his piano sonatas and his orchestral work Prometheus
Reviews of 'Sigmund Romberg' by William A. Everett and 'Jerome Kern' by Stephen Banfield
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Strumenti italiani in Europa: le dinamiche di una diaspora [Italian musical instruments in Europe: The dynamics of an exodus]
No full textVranjanka [version for orchestra]
No full textFor orchestra, duration 8.5 minutes. This piece was first performed on 30 April 2014 at Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, conducted by Timothy Reynish. It is loosely based on the traditional Serbian folksong "Šano Dušo". A version of this piece for wind band is also available, see https://researchonline.rcm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1542/
Beyond
No full textMusic for the short film 'Beyond' directed by Gavin Boyter and starring Annelise Hesme, Amani Johara, and Jamie Treacher.
The film is available on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiPwK3aeq6Y.
The theme song is available on SoundCloud at: https://soundcloud.com/maya-sapone/beyond-theme-song-maya-sapon
Violinists 'singing': Paganini, operatic voices, and virtuosity
No full textViolinists have always sought to imitate the expressiveness of singing. For the modern violinist, to play with the natural phrasing suggested by the breath is a basic aim while interpreting the masterworks. In the early 19th century, however, when it was still standard practice for violinists to perform their own works and to improvise, 'singing' carried very different connotations. Through an examination of compositions, performance practices, and reviews, the ways in which Paganini and his contemporaries thought about the vocal quality of the violin are explored. Performers conceptualized tone production, character, and the bow hand with close analogies to singing. Critics compared violinists with stars of the operatic stage; the violin's voice was almost universally regarded as feminine, tying in with popular legends that violins were 'ensouled' with the spirits of women. Violinists strove to 'sing' because it enabled deep expression, a lasting counterbalance to ephemeral virtuosity: this runs counter to the commonly held view that virtuosi were interested in pyrotechnics alone. Simultaneously, certain singers felt drawn, curiously, to aspire to violinistic virtuosity by treating their voices like mechanical instruments; if a singer could do all that a violinist could do—while the violinist could not better the singer—then why not just have singing? Precisely this question was dramatized in the competition scene from the opera Le carnaval de Venise by Ambroise Thomas. The voice carries the day, consigning the violin to second place. Yet there were rare exceptions to this rule—as when violin-singing was thought to meet and even exceed the expressivity of singing
An interview with Terence Charlston and Alexander Rolton
No full textKeyboard specialist Terence Charlston and his organ student Alexander Rolton discuss their working relationship. Interview by Rhian Morgan
