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Negotiating borrowing, genre and mediation in the piano music of Finnissy: strategies and aesthetics
Full text linkA very large amount of the piano music of Michael Finnissy draws extensively upon existing music, of a highly diverse variety, from Dunstable motets, through various highly contrapuntal works of Bach, Beethoven Symphonies, Berlioz’s orchestral and choral works, the operas of Verdi, through to piano and orchestral works of Busoni, the dodecaphonic compositions of the Second Viennese School and later examples of musical modernism, not to mention folk musics from Europe, Asia, Africa, North America and Australia, hymn tunes, music hall songs, ragtime, and other popular genres. However, invariably this source material is radically transformed using a huge variety of different techniques which nonetheless generally preserve a few key stylistic or other attributes. This process has been demonstrated and its compositional meanings considered in a certain amount of existing literature, but there has been to date very little critical engagement with the implications of this for performance. In this article, I begin by giving an overview of scholarly models for musical borrowing, then setting out a new taxonomy of Finnissy’s borrowings, extending and modifying especially the model developed by J. Peter Burkholder for the music of Charles Ives, as well as drawing upon the work of Gérard Genette on intertextuality. Then I explore in detail the implications of these in terms of interpretive practice, specifically focusing upon the extent to which one looks to situate performing practices in terms of genres associated with performance of the original sources (and in some cases, their later performance history), or in distinction through emphasis upon Finnissy’s individual mediation of these sources. Through a variety of approaches to voicing, tempo, tempo flexibility, phrasing, articulation, execution of continuity or discontinuity, as well as strategies for ‘distancing’ or objectifying musical materials, I will show how a pianist’s conclusions and concomitant strategies in these respects can affect perceptions of individual works in terms of their relationship to modernist, neo-romantic and other aesthetic ideologies. Works under consideration are those which combine simultaneously highly disjunct sources, in particular in The History of Photography in Sound. Otherwise, I considerpieces or sections of pieces from the Strauss-Walzer (1967, rev. 1989), Gershwin Arrangements (1988-90), Verdi Transcriptions (1972-2005) and Second Political Agenda (2000-8)
Ethnographic Approaches to the Study of Western Art Music: Questions of Context, Realism, Evidence, Description and Analysis
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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