Adrienne Rich’s poem “The Ninth Symphony of Beethoven Understood at Last as a Sexual Message” has become fixture in musicological accounts and the ever since its introduction to discipline an influential essay by Susan McClary. But though work been cited numerous books articles intervening decades, it remained yoked McClary’s text, with critics rarely considering on own terms. This paper consid...

On the first day of July 2022, headline an article in New York Times officially announced passing great American musicologist Richard Taruskin. The news loss a world-renowned researcher, whose prolific activity changed ancient paradigms musical thought, constitutes impetus for new generations musicologists 21st century approaching music history and analysis from new, multi-branched integrative ...

In this report, the problem of the analysis of traditional music of the island of Crete is analyzed. Research results from musicology are outlined and confronted with the state of the art in music information retrieval. It is clarified that no systematic computational approach for this analysis exists, whereas it could form a useful tool for research in musicology. An analysis method as applied...

Musical composition can be roughly viewed as a search for the best solution among a nite-although huge-universe of possibilities. Some of the algorithmic compositional techniques try to simulate the act of composing doing this search automatically. However, this approach has two major problems. The rst one is the hardness of depicting aesthetic concepts through mathematical rules. The second pr...

Links to a broad set of online resources for music educators, including such areas as individual musicians and groups in all genres, composers and composition, sites related to performance, and the commercial world of music. The Higher Education Academy, United Kingdom. Provides a wide variety of materials, research reports, and articles on all aspects of teaching music. Although the focus is o...

Links to a broad set of online resources for music educators, including such areas as individual musicians and groups in all genres, composers and composition, sites related to performance, and the commercial world of music. The Higher Education Academy, United Kingdom. Provides a wide variety of materials, research reports, and articles on all aspects of teaching music. Although the focus is o...

Even though folk songs have been passed down mainly by oral tradition, most musicologists study the relation between folk songs on the basis of score-based transcriptions. Due to the complexity of audio recordings, once having the transcriptions, the original recorded tunes are often no longer studied in the actual folk song research though they still may contain valuable information. In this p...

This study examines the intersections of music, philosophy and the use of metaphors and other linguistic expressions relating to violence in the writings of Theodor W. Adorno. After discussing contemporary theories of metaphor, it examines Adorno's comparisons of the music of Schoenberg and Stravinsky in his 1948 volume Philosophie der neuen Musik, the posthumous collection of fragments for his...

PerlHumdrum is an alternative toolkit for working with large numbers of Humdrum scores. While based on the original Humdrum toolkit, it is a completely new, self-contained implementation that can serve as a replacement, and may be a better choice for some computing systems. PerlHumdrum is fully object-oriented, is designed to easily facilitate analysis and processing of multiple humdrum files, ...

Sheet music and audio recordings represent and describe music on different semantic levels. Sheet music describes abstract high-level parameters such as notes, keys, measures, or repeats in a visual form. Because of its explicitness and compactness, most musicologists discuss and analyze the meaning of music on the basis of sheet music. On the contrary, most people enjoy music by listening to a...