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A song to sweeten Ireland's wrong: music education and the celtic revival
No full textA chapter in the volume for the proceedings of the Tenth International Conference of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-century Ireland, held in Dublin in June 2002
Quelques aspects du langage musical d'Alfred Bruneau [Some aspects of the musical language of Alfred Bruneau]
No full textEdition review: Pierre Gaviniès, Sonatas for violin and basso continuo, op. 3, ed. Anthony F. Ginter
No full textReview of 'Bands at the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904: information, photographs, and database' by Richard I. Schwartz and Iris J. Schwartz
No full textSelling brass instruments: the commercial imaging of brass instruments (1830-1930) and its cultural messages
No full textThe period between 1830 and 1930 witnessed significant cultural change in respect of brass instruments, and their imaging—used both in commercial advertising and more widely—reflect their cultural context and reveal about their performance idioms. The article examines the advertisements and imagery employed by European brass instrument manufacturers and music publishers, as well as the Conn advertising campaigns of the 1920s in the USA. It also looks at the images through which brass bands promoted themselves. A significant concern is the importance of military imagery and military endorsement in both the marketing of brass instruments and the imaging of brass bands in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and the way in which this became obsolete by the 1920s. The band of John Philip Sousa represented the culmination of military imagery as a serious influence on brass playing—that is, both its high point and its conclusion. The demise of such military connotations marks a significant shift in the definition of brass idioms in the twentieth century
A sniff of the real me
No full textFor soprano & sine wave, duration 7 minutes.
This piece was first performed by Jacqueline Barron (soprano) and the London Sinfonietta on 6 May 2004, Pasidy Hall, Nicosia
Review of 'Military music & bandsmen of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, 1933–1945' by Brian Matthews
No full textThe string quartet as a foundation for larger ensembles
No full textEnsemble combinations based on the string quartet have inspired some of the most expressive and intense pieces of all chamber music. The various genres examined in this survey attracted a remarkable array of composers, so their vast field of work can only be given a brief overview here. There is no space for detailed musical analysis or even a listing of every work of notable significance. Such enduring masterpieces as Mozart's G minor Quintet and Schubert's C major Quintet are illustrations of the inspiration afforded by the addition to the quartet of just one stringed instrument. However, the necessity to integrate extra players within an established quartet means that such works have tended to find their way into the concert hall only on an occasional basis. Long before these pieces were familiar through recordings, Walter Cobbett in 1929 went so far as to advocate the formation of string quintets specifically for touring purposes, as a way of doing justice to both the quality and the quantity of the repertory. The age of recording has consolidated the reputation of many of the pieces discussed below, including larger-scale string pieces such as Brahms' sextets and Mendelssohn's Octet, whose live performance has continued to be inhibited by practical and economic considerations
Georg Muffat—a document for the French manner?
No full textAn extended review of 'Georg Muffat on performance practice: the texts from ‘Florilegium primum’, ‘Florilegium secundum’ and ‘Auserlesene Instrumentalmusik’: a new translation with commentary' edited and translated by David K. Wilson from a collation prepared by Ingeborg Harer, Yvonne Luisi-Weichsel, Ernest Hoetzl, and Thomas Binkley (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001)
Networking: review article
No full textReview of the following books: 'Selling Britten: music and the market place' by Paul Kildea; 'Michael Tippett: music and literature' ed. Suzanne Robinson; 'Hans Keller and the BBC: the musical conscience of British broadcasting 1959-79' by A. M. Garnham