Anna Hoefnagels and Gordon E. Smith, eds. 2007. Folk Music, Traditional Music, Ethnomusicology: Canadian Perspectives, Past and Present. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 274 pp. (b/w photos, model diagrams). ISBN 978-1-84718-366-8

Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology in Norway Today: Studying the past and the Present

Norway has a strong and diverse traditional music scene. It encompasses everything from polka-playing accordion bands in the countryside to highly sophisticated professional musicians collaborating with first class international artists from other music genres. The number of individuals playing, singing and dancing at an impressive level of proficiency is very promising. There are local clubs o...

Soheili. A. Reflections on Persian Grammar: Developments in Persian Linguistic Scholarship I. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars publishing, 2017. 283 pp. ISBN: 1-4438-5070-5

Music IR: Past, Present, and Future

Music Information Retrieval has a longer history than most people realise, with systems developed in the 1960's. The field has its roots in information retrieval, musicology and music psychology. Information retrieval has provided us with a framework for evaluating retrieval systems. Musicologists have applied various techniques to measure stylistic parameters of composers and general similarit...

Regional Music Scholars Conference

Phrase structure and cadences did not expire with the suppression of common practice tonality. Joseph Straus points out the increased importance of thematic contrast to delineate sections of the sonata form in the beginning of the nineteenth century. Igor Stravinsky exploited other musical elements (texture, range, counterpoint, dynamics, etc.) to delineate sections in his neoclassical works. W...

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