Perennial Considerations and New Beginnings

New Beginnings.

Transitions in life are both inevitable and critical. Over the past 6 months, CQO has commenced an important shift as its founding editorial team has finished its remarkable term and a new group of editors takes over the journal for the next 5 years. As the incoming Editor-in-Chief for CQO’s new group of editors, I am excited and humbled by the opportunities that now lie before us. This is my f...

New beginnings.

of a wife who has spent a lot of time in Young Women, I have attended many “New Beginnings.” I have always liked the name but sometimes half jokingly say to Susan, “Why do Young Women call it ‘New Beginnings’? Why not just ‘Beginnings’? What is the diff erence between a ‘beginning’ and a ‘new beginning’?” Isn’t ‘new’ redundant?” Lately, however, I have felt new appreciation for the “new” in “Ne...

New beginnings.

Orlando Gibbons, Keyboard Music, and the Beginnings of the Baroque: New Considerations of a Musical Style

Résumé By examining abstract instrumental works, I wish to propose that an essential aspect of the new style known today as “Baroque” is the adoption of a different tonal language that can be found in English music of the early years of the century. This is, in itself, not a new idea, and that there is a move to a two-mode (major/ minor) system during the course of the seventeenth century is no...

African Development: Dead Ends and New Beginnings