La Donna del Lago de Rossini : première entrée en scène de Walter Scott dans l’opéra italien by Liliane Lascoux

“…His melodramma adapts Scott’s long poem The Lady of the Lake (1810), a true Scottish epic that describes King James V’s rivalry with both Borderers and Highlanders. The composer’s librettist, Andrea Leone Tottola, bases his dramatisation on a French translation of the poem, simplifies and rewrites the text, as is often customary when adapting literature for the stage, thus modifying characters and highlighting the poem’s love interest. …”
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ANNALYTICAL BENCHMARKS IN THE WORK “ON A SUN DIAL II” FOR CLARINET B FLAT AND RECITER BY PETRU STOIANOV by Cristian BENCE-MUK

“… On a sun dial II by Petru Stoianov, for clarinet and reciter strats from Nichita Stănescu’s verses (like many others of the composer’s opuses) and offers sonorous meditation on the poetic text. …”
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A Dinner Engagement (1954) de Lennox Berkeley : un opéra-bouffe anachronique ? by Jean-Philippe Heberlé

“…Musically speaking, the opera of the British composer is closer to some operas by Britten, Menotti and Poulenc than to works by Berg, Schoenberg and the composers of the European avant-garde of the 1960s. …”
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“JUGGLE” FOR CLARINET AND PIANO BY CRISTIAN MARINA – CHANGING THE SEMANTICS OF CONTEMPORARY MUSICAL CREATION FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF VARIOUS INSTRUMENTAL VERSIONS by Cristian BENCE-MUK

“… Juggle (2005) for clarinet and piano by Cristian Marina represents the starting point for another of the composer’s works, Intorno (2006) for clarinet, violin and piano. …”
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A narrativa mediada e a permanência da tradição: percurso de um anti-herói brasileiro by Luiz Gonzaga Motta

“…The article describes a narrative analysis of the song “Faroeste Caboclo”, written by the Brazilian composer Renato Russo. It freely applies the procedures proposed by the Russian narratologist Vladimir Propp in a typical product of the cultural industry to comprehend the narrative of a Brazilian modern anti-hero. …”
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VIOLETA DINESCU UND DER SCHLÜSSEL DER TRÄUME. JUBILÄUMS-PORTRÄT by Bianca ŢIPLEA TEMEŞ

“… Fusing together in her artistic background two utterly contrasting worlds such as Romania and Germany, the composer Violeta Dinescu succeded to achieve a unique, distinctive voice in contemporary composition. …”
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La découverte d’un texte au cours préparatoire : une gestion de contraintes dans un système tensionnel by François Simon

“…Dans cet article, François Simon présente la découverte de textes au cours préparatoire comme une activité qui conduit l’enseignant à composer entre le caractère collectif que recouvre cette situation et le caractère individuel de l’apprentissage, à articuler des centrations sur des objectifs de traitement de l’écrit ou des objectifs de compréhension, à opérer des choix sur les modes de guidage des élèves. …”
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DIE MUSIKALISCHE ANALYSE DES WERKES „MYSTERIUM“ VON KISKAMONI-SZALAY MIKLÓS by Zoltán SZALAY

“…There he composed the song “Mystery” (1995), based on the poem of the same name by the Hungarian poet Ady Endre. …”
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LA FRUSTRATION IDENTITAIRE. QUELQUES IDÉES DE MIHAI MITREA-CELARIANU SUR L’ÉCOLE ROUMAINE DE COMPOSITION by Luana STAN

“… Mihai Mitrea-Celarianu was a French-Romanian composer. Born in Bucarest in 1935, after the arrival of the communist regime, he was forced to leave the country and he installed himself in Paris, where he died in 2003. …”
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Crimson Tide: Hans Zimmer, Subliminal Harmony, and Submerged Voices by Donald Greig

“…The score by Hans Zimmer is a landmark score for the composer and consolidates his reputation for scoring films of that genre. …”
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DÉBATS SUR LA « ROUMANITÉ » MUSICALE by Luana STAN

“…Firstly, in the 1920’s, an important musicological movement marked the appearance of the periodical Muzica of Bucharest; the two main personalities of the Romanian music, musicologist Constantin Brailoiu and composer Georges Enesco, wrote a lot of essays to defend this «romanity». …”
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THE RENAISSANCE FRENCH PSALTER. (THE ROMANIAN VERSIFICATION OF THE PSALMS WITH HUGUENOT MELODIES. ON THE OCCASION OF CELEBRATING THE 450th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST FRENCH PSALTER,... by Anamaria Mădălina HOTORAN

“…Celebrating 450 years since the first French Psalter (Le Psautier français) at Geneva (1562), the book represents the second Romanian version of the French Psalter, after the Psalter published in 1673 by Dosoftei, Bishop of Moldavia and it is the result of the work of 18 composers and poets and 13 scientific referents from Romania, France, Germany and USA, under the coordination of  Mircea Valeriu Diaconescu (composer, Germany), Ştefan Bratosin (Univ. …”
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Pratiques de la culture des fruits by Leo Mariani

“…À travers l'entrée privilégiée du « numb taste », un goût qui engourdit les muqueuses de la bouche (et qui est ici provoqué par un fruit : le durian), on aborde la question des rapports humains aux aliments de façon transversale, en liant modes de connaissance, de consommation et de production.Se gardant de toute inflation théorique, le propos s'attache à l'analyse ethnographique méticuleuse du goût et de l'économie générale dans lequel il s'inscrit, entre la Malaisie et Singapour, pour finalement conceptualiser différentes manières de composer et d'éprouver les aliments et les mondes.On liera notamment l'apparition du numb taste à une contrainte agronomique et ontologique que s'imposent les producteurs et les consommateurs de ces deux pays, en laissant tomber des fruits que la rationalité économique la plus évidente leur enjoint pourtant de récolter.…”
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“JANKO”, THE “FOLK OPERA” LISZT NEVER WROTE by Mónika IVÁNYI-PAPP

“… On the basis of his extant correspondence, Liszt planned composing an opera with Hungarian scenes and titled it Janko, der ungarische Rosshirt (Janko, the Hungarian horse-herder). …”
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Chroni(qu)es new-yorkaises : City Life de Steve Reich by Antoine CAZÉ

“…This article analyzes Steve Reich’s City Life, a 1995 piece in which the American composer blends noises and voices he recorded on the streets in New York City with the sounds of an instrumental ensemble. …”
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“EQUINOXES” BY TIBERIU OLAH by Răzvan METEA

“…He thoroughly researched and applied very well the expressive means of popular and classical instruments, as well as those of the human voice, but he especially explored Romanian folk dances and mainly their rhythm, suggestively expressed by the hidden language of modern percussion. The composer creates a world of celestial sonorities where musical time and space are very well outlined…”
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The sounds of early eighteenth-century pastoral: Handel, Pope, Gay, and Hughes by Jeffrey HOPES

“…In the early eighteenth century the composer George Frideric Handel and the poets Alexander Pope, John Gay and John Hughes all engaged with the language and aesthetics of pastoral. …”
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Motyw nadziei w twórczości Igora Talkowa by Aleksandra Ancerowicz

“…In the course of analyzing the literary legacy of the composer, the author of the article distinguishes the following images of hope: the theme of hope conditioned by striving to fulfil his role in a dignified way in the arena of life; the theme of hope for the immortality of the poet’s fame and poetry; an inverted image of hope, interpreted as a loss of delusions; the theme of hope leading to victory in the unequal struggle of two ambivalent forces: Good and Evil; the theme of hope which is faith in a better life. …”
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Solo Songs by Count Julijan Pejačević in the Našice Local History Museum by Andrea Rakitić

“…Although he is remembered primarily as a royal chamberlain and family historian, he was also a pianist and a composer. His musical oeuvre consists of at least 70 works (though some sources would point to far more), including solo songs and piano pieces, most of which are today lost due to a plethora of reasons concerning the history of the Pejačević family library. …”
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Prácticas musicales e identidades en Salta. Reelaboraciones y sentidos en torno al folklore by Irene López

“…For that purpose, we undertake the study of two productions located in Salta in the first quarter of the 21st Century, one of them, Saltalogía by the jazz composer Daniel Tinte (Salta, 1969) edited in 2005; the other, El canto hereje, a CD produced as a tribute from rock to the folklore musician of Salta Gustavo "Cuchi" Leguizamón (1917-2000), edited in 2014. …”
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