TEXTURALISM by Andrei C. COZMA

“…The suggested theory of texturalism thus systemizes an important part of the 20th century music in which compositional techniques of other style defining musical practices are grouped together with singular technical features. …”
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Evolution of sample-based music authorship network by Dongju Park, Juyong Park

“…The selection, manipulation, and adoption of samples heavily impact the genre, mood, texture, and finally the distinctive identity of a new musical composition. …”
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Signs of Innovation in European Cinema. Electronic Music in Antonioni and Tarkovsky by Gabriele

“…In both cases, the presence of noise is effectively combined with music to create a very complex sound texture. …”
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I am hated, therefore I am: The Enemy in Yorùbá Imaginary by Abimbola Adelakun

“…This essay will interrogate how this personification of antagonism is achieved by studying Ifá texts, Yorùbá popular music of a period, and contemporary Pentecostal prayers. …”
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WORKING WITH VISUALLY-IMPAIRED PERFORMERS IN PIANO CLASS by Julia P. Antonova, Vitaliy V. Kalitskiy

“…The article focuses on the question of repertoire choice, the features of using braille music code, the role of listening to the recordings together with a teacher, the various imaginative associations for the purpose of forming a holistic image the textural and timbre components of musical fabric, the sufficiency of stage rehearsals. …”
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The Roaring Streets: Dickensian London in the Pages of Virginia Woolf by Francesca Orestano

“…Virginia Woolf was a keen preserver of some Victorian values, and among these the art of Charles Dickens, with his representation of London, its voices, sounds, music and noises. Dickens’s Little Dorrit and its closing sentence opens up my critical track by suggesting that Woolf’s reconstruction of the past must give to Victorian sounds a role that is neither ancillary nor merely impressionistic. …”
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Schon wieder das Lied!. Robert Schumanns »In der Fremde« und die Kriterien musikalischer Analyse by Felix Diergarten

“…Connected with this are some general reflections on the methodology of musical analysis.…”
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Eine »Grille« in »Händels Manier«?. Kompositionstechnik, soziale Symbolik und Dramaturgie in der zweiten Donna-Elvira-Arie aus Mozarts Don Giovanni by Tihomir Popovic

“…The pseudo-archaic style of the aria »Ah fuggi il traditor« from Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni has been repeatedly dealt with in musical criticism and musical historiography since the 18th-century. …”
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Chord Types and Figuration: A Bayesian Learning Model of Extended Chord Profiles by Christoph Finkensiep, Petter Ericson, Sebasian Klassmann, Martin Rohrmeier

“…Having acquired familiarity with different types of chords, a listener can distinguish tones in a musical texture that outline these chords (i.e., chord tones) from ornamental tones such as neighbor or passing notes that elaborate the chord tones. …”
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Playing in Tongues: The Hammond Organ and Black Pentecostal Instrumentality by Braxton D. Shelley

“…This article attends to the social life of the Hammond organ in the Black Pentecostal imaginary, a theological, cultural, and musical phenomenon that calls attention to the social fact of instrumental timbre. …”
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Im Niemandsland zwischen strengem Satz und Historismus. Zur Krise der Kontrapunktlehre im mittleren 19. Jahrhundert by Florian Edler

“…Cherubini adhered to Fux’s modal plainsong while Dehn favoured musical examples from the sixteenth century. In contrast to such historicist approaches, however, the two theorists regarded two-voice settings as a reduction of chordal texture. …”
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A TESTIMONY TO THE IMMORTALITY OF THE STRING QUARTET GENRE: GLOSSE BY LUCIANO BERIO by Tudor FERARU

“…The music is primarily gestured and somewhat pointillist, typical of Berio’s late output. …”
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Klangfarbe und musikalischer Zusammenhang. Beobachtungen zum Orchestersatz Richard Wagners by Johannes Kohlmann

“…With reference to the idea of sound dramaturgy conceived by Tobias Janz, three short examples from Tristan und Isolde are analysed in order to show how Wagner’s concept of musical coherence comprises the technique of instrumentation. …”
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