Johann Sebastian Bach in the Eyes of Johann Mattheson: On the Cantata ‘Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis’, BWV 21 by Katarzyna Korpanty

“… This article addresses the appraisal of Johann Sebastian Bach’s music by Johann Mattheson, specifically the commentary on the cantata Ich hatte viel Bekummernis, BWV 21 which that Hamburg-based theorist included in a 1725 issue of his periodical Critica musica. …”
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Piecing the Broken Golden Bowl: Dislocation and Diplomacy in Nixon in China by John Adams and Alice Goodman by Mathieu Duplay

“…In the opera, enjambments function first and foremost as literary devices; as such, they emphasize the text’s autonomy and its independence from its musical setting. On a meta-operatic level, the resulting discrepancy between words and music draws attention to the various modes of dislocation at play in an opera whose plot hinges on the acceptance of irreconcilable differences. …”
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Too much fighting on the dance floor : retour sur une époque troublée au travers du Ghost Town des Specials by Gildas Lescop

“…The tour following the record launching was punctutated by several brawls within concert goers meanwhile street riots will ignite on several occasions. Hailed by the music press for the pertinence of his social comment, “Ghost Town” will mark the end of an era and will remain as the musical testimony of a troubled period.…”
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Un « opéra radiophonique » : Ariane de Georges Delerue et Michel Polac by Jérôme Rossi

“…Initially meant to be set to “concrete music”, the composition is clearly indebted to the Debussy heritage while incorporating a wide variety of styles. …”
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The National Endowment for the Humanities : un levier fédéral des musées amérindiens by Gérard Selbach

“…It finances radio and TV programs on history, music and industry as well as interpretative museum exhibitions and the publishing of catalogs. …”
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The Emperor Jones de Louis Gruenberg : le long voyage au cœur/corps de l’Autre race by Benoît Depardieu

“…Although Gruenberg’s opera looks like a mere musical adaptation of O’Neill’s acclaimed play, first performed in 1920, some alterations made by the composer allow to question its ambivalent reception by the audience and the critics. …”
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Historia cantada. La organización campesina en Formosa en la década del sesenta by Cristian Eduardo  Vazquez

“…In this way, the song was a privileged means when it came to expressing demands, voice denunciations and represent the social reality. This use of music occurred in a context in which a significant number of artists included social problems -mainly rural ones- in the lyrics of their songs.…”
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L’alternance codique dans le rap algérien et tunisien by Felix Wiedemann

“…Hip-hop culture in general and especially rap music are important ways of expression for urban Algerian and Tunisian youths. …”
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Les chants du corps by Edoarda Barra

“…Through the homonymy of the word melē (both “limbs” and “chants”), and through a play of connections between the upper and lower body, the mouth and genitals, breathing and the sexual act, voices and moods, the music produced by the gods substitutes for coitus. …”
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OK Computer: A Sign of the Political and Ideological Times? by Jeremy Tranmer

“…Most references to music and politics in the 1990s focus on the role of Britpop in Labour’s 1997 landslide victory. …”
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Encouraging Positive Youth Video Game Activities by Rosemary V. Barnett

“…Youth recreation has merged with media to include video games, music downloading, and interactive websites, in many cases replacing traditional youth activities, such as basketball, swimming, or other outdoor recreation. …”
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The Pala’wan Highlanders and the World they live in: “A Weaving of Golden Threads” by Nicole Revel

“…Since then she is committed to the safeguarding of the literatures of voice.After co-creating Language-Music-Society (LMS), she became a member of the unit CNRS-MNHN Eco-anthropology and is actively involved in teaching Lingusitics - Anthropology at Musée de l’Homme.…”
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Nan Goldin: I’ll Be Your (Complex) Mirror by Richard PHELAN

“…Published in book form like The Ballad of Sexual Dependency and presented—as a slide show set to music, Goldin’s orchestrated sequences differ from the traditional photographic self-portrait presented as a unit for isolated contemplation. …”
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Le cas du metal symphonique, entre dégénérescence d’un art de l’extrême et exaltation du culte de la puissance by Jason Julliot

“…After sketching a definition of symphonic metal, this article considers the sound radicality issues in the heavy metal : by reversing the balance in favour of classical instruments and by integrating female singers (potentially lyrical), symphonic metal appears to be a non-violent genre, incompatible with what is the essence of heavy metal music. However, by adding all the power of a symphony orchestra to the metal band, by appropriating the codes of neo-Hollywood symphonism, and by designing oversized gigs, the symphonic metal musician seems to be part of a “cult of power”.…”
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« Une splendide anomalie ? », le Pilgrim’s Progress de Ralph Vaughan Williams by Gilles Couderc

“…First performed on April 26, 1951, at Covent Garden, four–act opera Ralph Vaughan Williams’s The Pilgrim’s Progress after John Bunyan’s eponymous Christian allegory, was then called “a magnificent anomaly” by the composer’s colleague Rutland Boughton, and continues to garner the same criticism as then : “beautiful music but not theatrical enough”. While the composer was conscious of the atypicality of his “operatic morality” it is indeed surprising to see an avowed agnostic composer spend forty years of his life on a work that dismisses the conventions of traditional opera and endeavours to portray mystical experience on stage and to renew with the sense of rite and ritual, part and parcel of the genre as Wagner’s subtitle for his Parsifal, “a sacred scenic festival”, reminds us.…”
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Supporting interaction in the context of residential child care by Kirsi Tuomi

“…Other services provided by the centre include family work, both within and outwith the centre, therapy services like Theraplay, music therapy and family therapy, supported living services for adolescents and a crisis residential service. …”

Introduction au dossier « Inscriptions urbaines américaines : rapports d’autorités » by Jean-Baptiste Barra, Timothée Engasser, Modesta Suárez

“…However the studies united here, both multidisciplinary and transmediatic, allow us to point out fractures in perpetual evolution and oscillation between violence and recognition ; reflections that erase national o local frontiers ; orientations and answers thathelp us to model part of the urban popular culture (including music and cinema) on the entire American continent.…”
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Rhetorical inventions of Amir Khosrow Dehlavi by Mojahed Gholami

“…Amir Khosrow has tended to innovate in music and rhetoric. He has innovations in these two areas. …”
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#emergencymedicine: A TikTok Content Analysis of Emergency Medicine-related Content by Madison Stolly, Erika Wilt, Nathan Gembreska, Mohamad Nawras, Emily Moore, Kelly Walker, Rhonda Hercher, Mohamad Moussa

“…A notable negative correlation was identified between video engagement and the inclusion of music. Conclusion: We identified qualities associated with negative and positive correlation with video engagement. …”
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»Schließlich waren alle Genies der Kunst immerhin doch Männer …«. Zum Geniebegriff bei Heinrich Schenker by Marko Deisinger

“…In Schenker’s view, the hierarchical structure of tonal music revealed through analysis represents a structural order in perfect agreement with the ideals of the model of governance he had promoted in several of his writings. …”
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