Chopin's Craft of Musical Form: Making Romantic Music with Classical Theme Types and Galant Schemata
ABSTRACT Frédéric Chopin adhered to traditional practices in musical form to a far greater extent than hitherto acknowledged. He took certain standard formal paths with remarkable consistency throughout his compositional career and across almost all his favoured genres.
Matthew Riley
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Sense and the science of nineteenth-century environmental determinism. [PDF]
Penaloza-Patzak B.
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Symphonic Gift: Wagner's Siegfried Idyll and the Hermeneutics of Sonata Form
ABSTRACT This article reimagines the place of programmatic interpretation within the New Formenlehre through the case study of Richard Wagner's Siegfried Idyll. To theorise the interaction between form and programme, I reconcile ‘separation’ and ‘conflation’ views – as represented by Julian Horton (2020) and Lawrence Kramer (2004a) – by deploying ...
RAFAEL ECHEVARRIA
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Amazonian cosmologies, plant-human relations, and the colonial entanglements of Indigenous artifacts. [PDF]
Uchôa R.
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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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The short (and messy) life of the protagon theory of anaesthesia. [PDF]
Perkins-McVey M.
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Engineered Identity: Albanian Nationalism and the Limits of Established Nationalism Theories
ABSTRACT This article analyses the development of Albanian nationalism as a test case for assessing the explanatory reach of three major approaches to the study of nationalism: modernist, constructivist and historical‐comparative. Rather than privileging a single theoretical framework, the article places these approaches in dialogue, treating them as ...
Alda Kushi
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Challenging score-centered norms in Western classical higher music education: an exploratory qualitative study of instructor-led initiatives in the UK and Europe. [PDF]
Matei R, Chiu R.
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A portrait unseen: Neil Bartlett's queer theatrical adaptation of Wilde's Dorian Gray
Abstract Neil Bartlett's 2012 theatrical adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray presents a provocative reimagining of Wilde's novel, emphasizing its homoerotic and aesthetic dimensions while engaging with the historical and cultural anxieties surrounding queerness.
Younes Poorghorban
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<i>FIAT LUX</i>: The Mullein's (<i>Verbascum</i> sp.) Image and Its Symbology Through History Within the Euro-Mediterranean Culture. [PDF]
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