Early harmonies, enduring echoes—how early life experiences and personality traits shape music performance anxiety by Ludivine Aubry, Ludivine Aubry, Mats B. Küssner

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.A Book Review of Music in Turkey: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture by Hadi Sepehri, Houman Asadi

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The New Digital Documentality of Contemporary Film Scoring Practices. Preliminary Results Based on Participant Observation at the Studio of North American Composer Christopher Youn... by Gabriele, Giulia Ferdeghini, Ilario Meandri

“…This change necessitates a renewal of musicological research methodologies concerning contemporary creative practices. …”
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Exploring the melodies of opportunity: do nepo babies pursue music out of genuine passion or is it a matter of engaging in musicpreneurship? by Eugine Tafadzwa Maziriri, Brain Mabuyana, Brighton Nyagadza, Mufaro Dzingirai, Tafadzwa C. Maramura

“…Narrative analysis was conducted on a sample of musicology students in Gweru, Zimbabwe. Findings – The findings revealed the nepo babies’ interest in music is driven by legacy continuation – the responsibility to carry on with the name of the parent – harsh economic conditions, capitalizing on Internet and digital opportunities and mechanisms for psychological satisfaction during hardships. …”
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Die frühe Schenker-Rezeption Hellmut Federhofers by Thomas Wozonig

“…This article examines Federhofer’s earliest post-war publications and teaching activities to reveal his pioneering role in bringing Schenker to the surface of German-speaking musicological discourse.…”
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Wie wissenschaftlich muss Musiktheorie sein?. Chancen und Herausforderungen musikalischer Korpusforschung by Markus Neuwirth, Martin Rohrmeier

“…Corpus-based research has long been occupying a prominent position in literary studies and linguistics. In musicology, by contrast, it is about to gain in importance only fairly recently. …”
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Von unten und von oben? . Hugo Riemanns reflexive Theorie in der Moderne by Hermann Danuser

“…Hugo Riemann’s oeuvre surpasses the borders of music theory, musicology and music history and therefore represents a conception of scholarship that seems – after 100 years – not timely any more. …”
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Lilla’s Heritage. Cultural Sketches of the Vay Branch in Hungary by Lili Veronika Békéssy

“…The lineage of this family, though only partially documented from a musicological point of view, unveils a significant impact on Dora’s abilities and sensitivities by diligently scrutinizing press and archival records from that era. …”
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If Music is Ongoing Experience, What Might Music Theory Be? . A Suggestion from the Drastic by Christopher F. Hasty

“…The current opening of musicology to questions of performance and embodied meaning calls for a theorizing of musical experience that would not remain stuck in oppositions of subject and object, mind and body, process and product. …”
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The Reception and Dissemination of European Music Theories in Brazil. Riemann, Schenker, and Schoenberg by Carlos de Lemos Almada, Guilherme Sauerbronn de Barros, Rodolfo Coelho de Souza, Cristina Capparelli Gerling, Ilza Nogueira

“…The history of music theory in Brazil is still not adequately represented in Brazilian musicology. When the Brazilian Association for Music Theory and Analysis (Associação Brasileira de Teoria e Análise Musical – TeMA) was founded in 2014, it took upon itself the task of redressing this imbalance by creating a study group dedicated to the “Historiography of Brazilian Music Theory and Analysis” (“Produção teórica e analítica no Brasil: trajetórias e identidades”). …”
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Music’s Vibratory Enchantments and Epistemic Injustices. Reflecting on Thirty Years of Feminist Thought in Music Theory by Judy Lochhead

“…These new perspectives have, in part, resulted in an increased diversity in the demographics of musicology, but there have not been changes of sufficient significance in either content or methodology in North American music theory and the demographics of music theory remain dominated by white, male practitioners. …”
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The Interpretation is the Message. Komposition als angewandte Interpretation bei György Kurtág by Tom Rojo Poller

“…By employing three paradigms that have proven to be particularly influential in recent musicology ([inter-]textuality, mediality, performativity), the analysis aims at showing how the superposition of multiple perspectives can deepen the overall understanding of music.…”
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Les collections permanentes du Louvre et l’exposition de l’art contemporain by Ariane Lemieux

“…Some even mention it as a musicological phenomenon revealing a generalized interest for contemporary art. …”
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The Reception of Baroque Music in Selected Works by Rochberg, Schnittke, and Szymański by Tomislav Bužić

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Introductory Word by Vjera Katalinić, Lucija Konfic

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AI Composers and Cyborg Performers: More-than-human Creativity in Music by Trump Sebastian

“…The paper addresses ethical concerns about AI's role in music, including authorship and copyright, advocating for a reevaluation of musicological frameworks to accommodate the evolving collaborative landscape of human and machine creativity.…”
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The Requiem in the Age of Confessionalisation. A Review of The Book of Requiems vol. 2 by Simone Caputo

“…Burn and Antonio Chemotti, collects analytical musicological essays on Requiems composed between 1550 and  1650, drawing a comprehensive map of early modern polyphony for the liturgy of the dead, covering regions from Flanders to central Europe and from Italy to the Iberian Peninsula. …”
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BOOK REVIEW: CIPRIAN PORUMBESCU NECUNOSCUT (CIPRIAN PORUMBESCU UNKNOWN), PUBLISHING BY ED. LIDANA, SUCEAVA, 3 EDIŢII, 2011-2013 (ISSN: 2284-712X) by Gabriela COCA

“…Among a series of notable cultural representations made to celebrate 160 years of the birth of Bucovinean composer Ciprian Porumbescu, in June 1st at Stupca (today: Ciprian Porumbescu), at the Ciprian Porumbescu Memorial Museum, also held at the National Musicological Symposium. Within it have been presented the following papers dedicated to the composer's life and activity: Leca Morariu and the Monumental Monograph Worshiped to Ciprian Porumbescu (author: Vasile Vasile – from the University of Piteşti); The Architectural and Tonal Support of the Dramaturgy of the “Crai nou” (New Philanderer) Operetta by Ciprian Porumbescu (author: Gabriela Coca – from the Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca); “Balada” (The Ballad) of Ciprian Porumbescu – a Representative Creation of the Art Music of Bucovina (19th century) (author: Zamfira Dănilă – from the “George Enescu” Academy of Art - Iaşi); The Reception of Ciprian Porumbescu’s Creation in Banat (author: Constantin Tufan Stan – from the Filaret Barbu School of Fine Arts of Lugoj); „Altarul Mănăstirii Putna” (The Altar of Putna Monastery) (author: Sever Paraschiv Dumitrache – from the Bucovina Cultural Center of Suceava); and The Musicological Trilogy “Ciprian Porumbescu Unknown” to an end (autor: Constanţa Cristescu – from the Bucovina Cultural Center - Suceava). …”
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La Sonorité du vide by Eckehard Pistrick

“…The refugee camp is presented in this context as an emerging ethnographic site in constant reconfiguration - a fact which requires a new form of humanist and engaged musicological research, which will in the long-term transform our practices and experiences as researchers.…”
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L’INFLUENCE DE L’ART POPULAIRE SUR L’ART SAVANT: RÉFÉRENCES ESTHÉTIQUES AUX CRÉATIONS ROUMAINES DANS LA PREMIÈRE MOITIÉ DU XXᵉ SIÈCLE by Liliana-Isabela APOSTU HAIDER

“…It was thus necessary to study the ethno musicological aspects strictly connected to the Rumanian popular tradition, and the anthropological aspects, aiming at the relation of the art with the human society, which produces it. …”
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