Le Henri VIII de Saint-Saëns : entre affirmation idéologique et liberté théâtrale by Thierry Santurenne

“…Yet, the ideological purpose of the libretto is nuanced by the composer’s reliance on specific musical and dramatic formulas.…”
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The Rape of Lucretia, premier « opéra anglais » de Britten ?  by Gilles Couderc

“…The Rape of Lucretia is Britten’s second opera, composed in the wake of the popular success of Peter Grimes and amidst the composer’s difficulties in sustaining his ambitious project to restore English opera and to set up his own opera company despite the dire post-war economic context. …”
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Impact of expressive intentions on upper-body kinematics in two expert pianists by Craig Turner, Robin Mailly, Fabien Dal Maso, Felipe Verdugo

“…Methods: Two expert pianists (P1 and P2) performed six musical excerpts (E1–E6) in two experimental conditions: normal condition (including expressive intentions) and the control condition (strictly playing the composer’s notations written in the score with no subjective interpretation). …”
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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. …”
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La traduction du livret d’opéra vers l’anglais : un enjeu national et/ou « méta-opératique » by Pierre Degott

“…As is well-known, the collocation “English opera” could occasionally refer, in particular in the nineteenth century, not to a work composed in Britain by a British composer, but to an opera actually sung to English words. …”
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Internet application Mozilla localization and using in teaching by Gintautas Grigas, Tatjana Jevsikova

“…The reasons to discuss this topic are following: 1) the programs' suite was localized (menu, dialog boxes and other strings and documentation are translated and the program is adapted for its proper matching to Lithuanian environment); 2) using one Mozilla package for teaching Intemet topics instead of separated Inter­net applications (web browser, HTML composer, e-mail and chat clients) has many advantages. …”
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A Broken Idyll: Post-Pastoralism in the Works of George Crumb by Kristina KNOWLES

“…This paper seeks to examine the expression of the pastoral in the musical output of post-modern composer, George Crumb. In doing so, I argue that the concept of post-pastoralism put forth by Terry Gifford may provide a valuable lens through which to understand musical expressions of the pastoral in the post-modern era. …”
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The Emperor Jones de Louis Gruenberg : le long voyage au cœur/corps de l’Autre race by Benoît Depardieu

“…On January 7, 1933, two years before Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, The Emperor Jones, composed by Louis Gruenberg in 1931, had its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera of New York. …”
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REPETITION AND FANTASY IN SPRING, POEM FOR SOPRANO, CLARINET AND PIANO, BY CARMEN PETRA-BASACOPOL by Şerban MARCU

“… The present study, part of the research grant The artistic and social impact of the contemporary music of the 21st century from the perspective of the relationship composer-performer-audience (project director Assistant Professor Cristian Bence-Muk, D.Mus.) investigates the structural and rhetoric aspects in the poem Spring, for soprano, clarinet and piano, by Carmen Petra-Basacopol, on the verses of poet Mariana Dumitrescu. …”
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Immigration, différence et intégration dans The Consul et The Saint of Bleecker Street de Gian Carlo Menotti by Walter Zidaric

“…Composer, librettist and stage director Gian Carlo Menotti has changed the American musical theatre by accepting to face burning questions related to his times, but which are at the same time universal. …”
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BERCEUSES DU CHAT BY IGOR STRAVINSKY by Răzvan METEA

“…Berceuses du chat by Igor Stravinsky for voice and clarinet trio - picollo clarinet, clarinet in A, bass clarinet - is a cycle of four vocal-instrumental miniatures that are part of the Russian period of the composer’s work, being completed in 1915-1916. The timbral balance achieved between the voice and the instrumental ensemble, the lyrical manner of musical expression, the specific rhythmic-melodic typologies of writing, the chromatic versus diatonic dichotomy, the affiliation of the opuses to the comic aesthetic category are characteristics of this series of four micro-art-songs, cradle songs, dedicated to and apparently describing the characteristics of a cat. …”
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Wilde’s French Salomé by Emily Eells

“…Wilde’s play is untranslatable: both the illustrator Aubrey Beardsley and the composer Richard Strauss recognized the quintessential French quality of the script, and respected it in their creative translations into another artistic genre.…”
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UMWERTUNGEN IN LISZTS WASSER-MUSIK by Márta-Adrienne ELEKES

“…I’ve clung into this theme as to a connecting thread which would help me to discover what kind of content attitude could be observed among some works and what kind of musical toolbar was born in the composer’s workshop. To make it simple, what was the meaning or how it happened that this “watery” theme came into the light and in what formal solution was this concluded. …”
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TEXTURALISM by Andrei C. COZMA

“… Although identifying and defining texture as a specific sound organization in sound mass compositions comes about frequently in contemporary musicology, only a handful of researchers regard this as a tendency of what turns out to be a large number of composers towards an aesthetic with underlying principles of composition. …”
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FRANZ SCHUBERT AND THE MUSICAL ROMANTICISM by Boróka GYARMATHY-BENCZE

“…Most musicians of that age possessed a vast cultural background, often being poets, composers and performers at the same time. Composer Franz Schubert reunites his art the subtle text interpretation with the melodic, purely musical ideal of shaping melody. …”
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L’héritage d’OK Computer : Influence de l’esthétique de Radiohead dans les productions de Leprous by Guillaume Deveney

“…We propose to examine this statement with a focus on progressive metal band Leprous, whose main composer, Einar Solberg, has always acknowledged the Oxford quintet’s influence – especially with OK Computer – on his own creations. …”
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ELEMENTS OF THE MUSICAL DISCOURSE IN “FUM (SMOKE)” BY DOINA ROTARU by Şerban MARCU

“… The present study is an analysis of the work entitled Fum (Smoke), for clarinet solo, written by the Romanian composer Doina Rotaru in 1996 and dedicated to the clarinetist Emil Vişenescu. …”
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GIUSEPPE VERDI: UN BALLO IN MASCHERA by Júlia KÖPECZI KIRKÓSA

“…Although one might state that the composer was obliged to make compromises, one could safely say that these did not affect by any means the message of the opera or the dramatic impact it had then, on the day of the premiere or even so today, 151 years after its creation. …”
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When ‘Law’ Rhymes with ‘Flaw’: the Sounds of British Justice in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial by Jury (1875) by Joël Richard

“…Yet I would argue that as early as the mid-1870s, the composer-and-librettist duo had successfully started working on what might be perceived by their audience as the ‘sound’ best fit to satirize a number of Victorian institutions—here, the judicial system, turned topsy-turvy by a banal breach of promise case. …”
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« LE PAYSAGE SONORE » DE MURRAY R. SCHAFER by Luana STAN

“…In a world where background music (muzak) invades all public places, Canadian musicologist and composer Murray Schafer does an analysis of all types of sounds (natural, artificial, from the old days until today) in his book The Tuning of the World and advances a proposal to create sound museums. …”
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