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...Miriam Piilonen Fanny Gribenski . Tuning the World: The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics (1859–1955) . University of Chicago Press , 2023 : 280 pp. ( $55.00 hardcover). Copyright © 2024 by Yale University 2024 the tuning of the A above middle C to 440 Hertz...

...Jay Rahn Jay Rahn is professor of music at York University, where he teaches courses on world music as well as theory, analysis, and cognition. Best known for his theory for all music, Rahn is currently completing a book-length study of musical traditions in East Africa, Southeast Asia...

... for the often ungraspable but omnipotent laws that Webern imagined in the world around him. Copyright © 2018 by Yale University 2018 cycles transformation theory neo-Riemannian theory Anton Webern twelve-tone theory Works Cited Antokoletz Elliott . 1986 . “ Interval Cycles...

...Caleb Mutch Abstract This article illuminates the modern concept of the triadic root by analyzing that concept and explaining how the English-speaking world came to refer to it with the term root . To do so, it begins by identifying five subconcepts on which theorists have drawn when explaining...

... studies. The first considers the distinction that Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Fārābī draws between the speculative and active parts of music theory and its influence on the formation of the discipline in the Latin-speaking world. The second considers entanglement between French and Chinese music...

... Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's setting of Bach's “Das alte Jahr” in the concluding “Nachspiel” of her piano song cycle, Das Jahr , as suggesting interactions of public and private sonic worlds. I follow potential tonal-harmonic alternatives (after Schoenberg and Berg on the chorale) and implications...

... is passed off as art, what reward does the perpetrator stand to gain? What does the victim stand to lose? To flesh out the stakes involved in Cavell's notion of fraudulence, this article reframes the issue in terms of the peculiar economy of music. As Pierre Bourdieu and others have suggested, the art world...

... of Mersenne’s theorization is the notion that both musical performance and oratorical delivery share their foundations in the physical world of sound channeled through the vibrating vocal apparatus of the human body. Delivery is thus in principle amenable to the physical analysis that Mersenne so valued...

...Andrew J. Chung Abstract This article examines early modern interactions between music-theoretical writings on tuning and consonance, natural philosophy (systematic, scientific understanding of the natural world), and the colonization of the American tropics. Part 1 argues that early modern music...

... the fact that they share this concern. The world is gone I must carry you. —Celan, “Vast, Glowing Vault”1 The good is outside the space of facts. —Wittgenstein, Culture and Value in an essay on the music of gustav mahler (“A Scale of Eternity Stanley Cavell refers to Theodor Adorno...

... basis of the mind to the forefront of the discussion. 1999 © Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 1999 Berkeley, George. 1710/1952. “A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge.” In Great Books of the Western World , vol. 35 , ed. Robert Maynard Hutchins. Chicago...

... and mighty empire, in the monarchy of the Habsburgs. But do not look for it on the map; it has been swept away without a trace. —Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday: An Autobiography (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1964) Every year I have to answer...

... to college, I began to worry that the world had gone crazy. My teachers, it turned out, knew literally nothing about the music I listened to, whether it was Allan Holdsworth, Koyaanisqatsi, or The Grand Wazoo. Nobody taught classes about the Rite of Spring, John Coltrane, the gamelan...

... method, and the ability to engage a far greater range of the world's musics in our classes and research. If the cost of these gains is giving up an unwieldy term that was never that well defined in the first place, I'm happy to pay it. This is a different position from the one I took some years ago...

... (to reading, to crit- icism) and not to the sciences (thus “interpretation,” not “analysis and has at its core a pragmatic, world-oriented agenda (thus “practice,” not “theory The book focuses on reconstructing the path of Schenker’s own reasoning as he followed that path from observing the effects...

..., and superstition from around the world. Like Casaubon, Fétis died before completing his magnum opus: the Histoire générale , eventually published under the more modest title Histoire générale de la musique depuis les temps les plus anciens jusqu’à nos jours ( A General History of Music from the Most Ancient...

..., Silence: Sibelius’s Tempest Music and the Invention of Late Style .” In Sibelius and His World , ed. Grimley Daniel M. , 186 – 226 . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Harris Simon . 1980 . “ Chord-Forms Based on the Whole-Tone Scale in Early Twentieth- Century Music...

... of as representations of the world around us based on information passively received by the senses, and (c) cognition was modeled as an abstract manipulation or processing of those representations (Shapiro and Spaulding 2021 ). Embodied cognition, rather than representing computation by a “brain in a vat” separate...

... are summarily dismissed. But conflation aside, I want to begin by addressing the question as he phrased it. To put it bluntly, musicology is undeniably racist, most glaringly so in its determination to avoid perhaps the most unlikely event in Western music history: the rise to world dominance of American...

... : Coyote Canyon . Gasman Daniel . 1996 . “Organicism and Nazism.” In World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopedia , edited by Blamires Cyprian , 487 – 88 . Santa Barbara, CA : ABC-CLIO . Hanslick Eduard . 1922 . Vom Musikalisch-Schönen: Ein Beitrag zur Revision der Ästhetik der...