THE CHORAL OUTLINE IN THE OPERA “ALEXANDRU LĂPUŞNEANU” BY GHEORGHE MUSTEA by Luminiţa GUŢANU

“… The music of Gheorghe Mustea displays a heterogeneous style, richly inspired by the compositional manner of the great composers of this genre (M. Mussorgsky, George Enescu), with elements of folk origin, of a special charm and richness. …”
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Ravel’s Programmatic Impulse by Peter Kaminsky

“…Such a gap is hinted at in Berlioz’s own account of the program for the Symphonie Fantastique: »The aim of the program is by no means to copy faithfully what the composer has tried to present in orchestral terms, as some people seem to think; on the contrary, it is precisely in order to fill in the gaps which the use of musical language unavoidably leaves in the development of dramatic thought, that the composer has had to avail himself of written prose to explain and justify the outline of the symphony«.While Berlioz’s statement posits one sort of gap at the heart of the program/music relationship, it becomes more relevant to Ravel’s music to consider the gap from the other direction and reverse Berlioz’s terms: thus the composer avails himself of the unique structural and expressive resources of music to connote their own meaning, in order to fill in the gaps which the limitations of the programmatic source unavoidably leave in the development of dramatic thought.…”
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EXPRESSIONIST ECHOES IN “3 AUTUMN” SONGS BY DAN VOICULESCU - STRUCTURE, STYLE, LANGUAGE by Şerban MARCU

“… The present study advances for analysis the lieder cycle 3 Autumn songs for soprano, oboe, two clarinets and violin from composer Dan Voiculescu’s youth. The three lieder are based on poems Autumn song and Song by Emil Isac and Autumn by Nicolae Labis. …”
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A FIRST COMPOSITIONAL ATTEMPT INTO THE WORLD OF SILENT SHORT FILMS – SANCTUARY BY NELIO COSTA (WITH MUSIC BY ŞERBAN MARCU) by Şerban MARCU

“…The study highlights the suggestions that the composer derived from the film, the musical solutions the composer came up with in order to “counterpoint” the visual discourse and the context in which the film was presented, at the 2nd edition of the InnerSound International New Arts Festival, in Bucharest, 2013. …”
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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

“…Finally, the article considers the musical function of line breaks: they loosen up the meter and create complex patterns, which the composer uses for his own purposes.…”
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Le Giulietta e Romeo de Riccardo Zandonai : une création nationaliste en ordre de marche by Emmanuelle Bousquet

“…This article analyses Riccardo Zandonai’s Giulietta e Romeo as a reading of Shakespeare’s tragedy through the double perspective of the eyes of the composer, immersed in the European literary and musical tradition, and those of the public and of the critics in the historical context of widespread nationalism and rising fascism. …”
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RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: “A CAMBRIDGE MASS”. ABOUT A NEWLY DISCOVERED MANUSCRIPT AND A WORLD PREMIERE, IN CONVERSATION WITH MAESTRO ALAN TONGUE by Bianca ŢIPLEA TEMEŞ

“… Acknowledged as one of the most prominent figures of British music history, the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams is well known to the world for pieces like Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, A Sea Symphony, The Wasps and many others. …”
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EDITORIAL EXPLOSION by Gabriela COCA

“… In the last ten years, we experienced a real editorial explosion offered by the composer, the professor, the musicologist and the plastic artist, which is Eduard Terényi. …”
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De Pictures from a Life à Letters from a Life : exaltation de la vie de Benjamin Britten by Gilles Couderc

“…Mitchell has published a picture biography of Britten, Pictures from a Life, and the composer’s letters and diaries, under the title Letters from a Life, both exalting the life of the hard-working musician, whom Mitchell clearly believes to be one of the twentieth century’s greatest composers. …”
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Riders to the Sea de Ralph Vaughan Williams : un hymne à la mer, indomptable et indomptée, qui unit les nations by Florence Le Doussal

“…Riders to the Sea: An opera in one act based on the play by John Millington Synge, Ralph Vaughan Williams’s fifth opera, composed between 1925 and 1932, after The Poisoned Kiss (A Romantic Extravaganza), was first performed at London’s Royal College of Music on December 1st, 1937, with Malcolm Sargent conducting. …”
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Tower d’Alun Hoddinott, ou la tentative de créer un opéra populaire by Jean-Philippe Heberlé

“…Although the aim of the enterprise is to create a popular opera, this does not mean that the composer and the librettist have not made a real opera. …”
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Gloriana de Britten et le rêve de l’opéra anglais by Gilles Couderc

“…Why should he insist on composing for an event of such national significance? …”
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Le Falstaff de Manfredo Maggioni et Michael Balfe : façonner un opéra italien pour le public anglais by Céline Frigau

“…It nevertheless represents an essential step not only in the works of its composer but in the history of opera in England itself.…”
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WHERE TWO WORLDS MEET: LIGETI AND ROMANIAN FOLK MUSIC by Bianca Ţiplea TEMEŞ

“… It is hard to grasp how a composer acknowledged as a symbol of the 20th century musical avant-garde, re-formed in the laboratory of electronic music in Cologne at the end of the 1950s and always eager to take on fresh stylistical challenges, resorted to folk music as a source of inspiration. …”
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Piano Works by Dora Pejačević – A Personal Perspective of an Interpreter by Kyra Steckeweh

“…Dora Pejačević (1885–1923), a Croatian noblewoman and composer, emerges as a figure of profound musical depth and innovation. …”
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L’art comme forme symbolique by Audrey Rieber

“…That allows him to put the emphasis both on the composer’s activity and on the audience’s, that is to say to reject the theory of inspiration and to bring up the idea of configuration. …”
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The Order of Things. Analysis and Sketch Study in Two Works by Steve Reich by Twila Bakker, Pwyll ap Siôn

“…This article explores the boundaries that lie between analysis and sketch study, as found in two works by American composer Steve Reich (b. 1936). The article begins by examining the relationship between analysis and sketch study in relation to minimalist music. …”
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Wokół warszawskiego okresu życia i twórczości Władysława Żeleńskiego. Dokumenty epistolarne z lat 1873–1880 by Grzegorz Zieziula

“…There are letters from Żeleński’s outgoing and incoming correspondence (to Bohumil Pazdírek, Julian łukaszewski and Władysław Górski), evidence of the epistolary polemic that he carried on with Józef Brzowski on the pages of Warsaw’s daily press, and letters sent by the composer’s first wife, the writer, columnist and educationist Wanda Żeleńska (née Grabowska; 1841–1904), to Władysław Górski and his wife Helena (née Rosen), and to Izabela Zbiegniewska. …”
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Castil-Blaze troubadour by Séverine Féron

“…François-Henri-Joseph Blaze alias Castil-Blaze (1784-1857) is a very active author and composer in the French musical life. Born in the Comtat-Venaissin region, his bilingualism is the foundation of his distant and critical view of the musical practices of his time. …”
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When Musicology Goes Cultural: On Reviewing A Cultural History of Western Music in the Renaissance by Nicolò Ferrari

“…Focusing on the period from 1400 to 1650, it departs from the traditional composer-centric view, opting for a thematic approach to explore the period’s musical landscape, reflecting broader cultural contexts and shifts. …”
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