180 research outputs found
Testaments to Bach
No full textThis batch of recordings testifies to the ongoing appetite for new releases of Johann Sebastian Bach\’s major works for strings. The eleven discs discussed in this review focus on Bachian works for violin, including those for solo violin, violin and harpsichord as well as the violin concertos
Kolisch, Rudolf (1896–1978)
No full textRudolf Kolisch was an Austrian-born violinist, teacher, and conductor. As leader of the Kolisch Quartet he premiered many important chamber works by the Second Viennese School and other modernist composers of the first half of the twentieth century. He later became leader of the Pro Arte Quartet and taught at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and at the New England Conservatory in Boston. Kolisch was born in Klamm am Semmering, Austria on 20 July 1896. His father Rudolf was a doctor and his mother Henriette a pianist. Soon after starting violin lessons, an injury to his left hand led him to hold the violin in his right hand and bow left-handed. He attended the Vienna Music Academy and the University of Vienna, but his postgraduate studies were interrupted by three years of service in the Austrian army during World War I. His teachers included the Czech violinist Otakar Ševčík, the composer Franz Schrecker, and the musicologist Guido Adler
Baroque violin music
No full textThis selection of discs traverses some of the rich repertory for violin from the late Baroque, both solo and accompanied. The twelve recordings discussed in this review mainly date from the first half of the 18th century and include staple German and Italian works alongside less familiar fare
Expressivity
No full textExpressivity in music refers to the production and perception of variation in musical parameters. Music is inexpressive when it is uniform and mechanical, whereas music described as expressive communicates through dynamic fluctuations of acoustic and visual ..
Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich
No full textThe Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich (DTÖ) [Monuments of Music in Austria] is a series of critical editions of historical music, primarily by composers born or working in Austria during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The DTÖ was an initiative of the musicologist Guido Adler who served as its founding General Editor. In 1888, the musicologist Guido Adler petitioned the Austrian Ministry of Culture and Education for the publication of a series of editions of historical music (Monumenta Historiae Musices), a project that was to become the DTÖ. Adler became General Editor of the series at a meeting of the Gesellschaft zur Herausgabe von Denkmälern der Tonkunst in Österreich (Society for the Publication of Monuments of Music in Austria) held in 1893, and the first volume of the series appeared in 1894 (Masses by Johann Joseph Fux). Adler served as General Editor in 1893–1938; others who have held the position include Erich Schenk (1939–74) and Othmar Wessely (1974–98). Music critic Eduard Hanslick served as the first president of the DTÖ Society (1893–97) and members of the editorial board have included prominent composers such as Johannes Brahms, Gustav Mahler, and Richard Strauss. The journal Studien zur Musikwissenschaft: Beihefte der Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich Studies in Musicology: Supplements of the DTÖ was founded in 1913
PIDs to support discovery and citation: Persistent identifier service design and delivery at UNSW Library
No full textPersistent identifiers are a key technology in enabling access and interoperability between systems involved in scholarly communication. This paper discusses persistent identifier strategies and services implemented at UNSW Library for institutional and faculty-based digital repositories. In particular, the paper describes the UNSW DOI Service, which is an application that allows researchers to request or mint DOIs. The service has been designed to meet multiple use cases, and reuses descriptive metadata to make the process of getting a DOI as simple and efficient as possible
Performing solo Bach: A case study of musical decision-making
No full textThis study explores how an expert period instrument musician makes musical decisions, focusing on the distinction between intuitive (Type 1) and deliberate (Type 2) processes as defined by dual-process theories of cognition (Evans, 2008). A case study of the cellist Daniel Yeadon was conducted over 2 years, during which extensive quasi think-aloud and performance data were collected regarding Yeadon’s interpretation of the Suites for Solo Cello by J. S. Bach (BWV 1007–1012). Analysis of this data resulted in the categorization of 134 musical decisions as intuitive, procedural, deliberate, or deliberate HIP (historically informed performance). Procedural decisions were a subset of intuitive, defined as previously deliberate decisions that had become automatic over time. The category of deliberate HIP consisted of decisions that were explained with reference to specific knowledge of historical performance practices. A large proportion of deliberate decision-making was found (65% overall), with deliberate processes dictating the majority of decisions across all performance features except for tone color and ornamentation. Musical decisions discussed in the study demonstrate that performers often manipulate several features of the music simultaneously (making coding and analysis complicated), whether consciously or otherwise. The highest number of musical decisions related to articulation and phrasing, a result that highlights important components of current HIP style. Implications for dual-process theories include the novel category of procedural that demonstrates differences within intuitive (Type 1) processes
Research data management (RDM)
No full textResearch data management (RDM) can be defined as a set of practices to handle information collected and created during research. It is ‘the compilation of many small practices that make your data easier to find, easier to understand, less likely to be lost, and more likely to be usable during a project or ten years later’.[1] These practices involve, but are not limited to, data management planning, documentation, organization, storage, dissemination and preservation.[2] Effective RDM is an ongoing process which is structured and aligned with the research context and disciplinary practices
Open Data
No full textOpen data is the practice of making underlying research data publicly available, accessible and reusable with minimal restrictions
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