Noye’s Fludde: Benjamin Britten’s. Interpretation of the Chester Play by Peter Happé

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ELENA MARIA ŞORBAN – BOOK QUARTET: 1. THE HISTORY OF MUSIC AND US: CREATIVE PERMANENCIES, 2. THE OLD MUSIC. A CONCISE HISTORY, 3. CLASSICAL AND ROMANTIC MUSIC, 4. THE NEW MUSIC Eik... by Anamaria Mădălina HOTORAN

“…Her main fields of interest are Western Plainchant (with a doctoral dissertation on Plainchant in Medieval Transylvania), Modern and Contemporary Music and pedagogical applications of Music History for children. …”
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Music Theory, Cultural Transfer, and Colonial Hybridity by Thomas Christensen

“…Using a range of examples from Medieval Arabic music theory, Jean-Philippe Rameau’s theory of harmony, and Schenkerian theory, it is shown that a global dissemination and absorption of music-theoretical ideas is rarely a straightforward process of import and export. …”
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Texts by Petrus Wilhelmi de Grudencz in the context of the late medieval ars poetriae by Bartosz Awianowicz

“…In his work, Eberhard of Bremen offers a clear categorization of poetry into poesis metrica based on Classical poetic metres, poesis rithmica or rigmica based on rhyme and rhythm, and a less restricted form of sacred music, known as prosa. Among Petrus Wilhelmi’s 22 compositions (with an acrostic of his name) published by Jaromír Černy, and a dozen or so others identified during the last two decades only two – the composition Presulis eminenciam (I/1), which opens Černý’s edition, and canon (rotulum) Pneuma erumpnosi telluris rei – can be classified as rhythmicized prose from the perspective of the medieval ars poetriae. …”
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Recordando o rei David: vivência coral e criatividade musical na Europa pós-carolíngia by Manuel Pedro Ferreira

“…This paper explores the presence of King David in the daily life and imaginary world of Latin medieval clergy, focusing on the Psaltery and those musical items (antiphons, sequences, tropes) newly inspired in David's biography as recorded in the Old Testament. …”
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An Ontology of the Word in Catalan Romanesque Culture by Alfons Puigarnau

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Poétique/Politique de l'artifice dans Richard II by Pierre Iselin

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Muzyczne harmonie i harmonia świata. „Pieśni Ziemi i Mocy” Grega Beara by Joanna Kokot

“…The multiverse is presented there as analogous to a musical piece, however — contrary to ancient and medieval concepts — it is not a finished opus, but one that undergoes contiguous change, becoming more and more intricate in the process. …”
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Robert Duncan and the Vernacular of Preliteracy by J. Peter Moore

“…The poet’s task, in Duncan’s imagination, is to return to those seedbanks of language, to re-plant the words of that early stage, in order to activate an organic music arising from preliterate babble that might transcend the boundaries that segregate speech communities.…”
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Catholic Church Interiors in Fin-de-Siècle Literature by Claire Masurel-Murray

“…The works of such late-Victorian writers as Lionel Johnson, Ernest Dowson, Theodore Wratislaw, John Oliver Hobbes and Oscar Wilde represent Catholic churches as retreats set apart from the ugliness and mediocrity of Victorian England—religious versions of Des Esseintes’s Fontenay-aux-Roses house in À rebours—filled with incense, organ music, and coloured light filtering through medieval stained-glass windows. …”
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Expressões retóricas do amor no Cancioneiro Geral de Garcia de Resende by Geraldo Augusto Fernandes

“…The resources used by poets would be, through the revaluation of poetry, harmony and musicality, through which the most diverse contents of human inquiry were expressed, which reveals the ancient concerns that medieval poets emulated. …”
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