Hand Position and Fingering on Keyboards in Italian Iconographical Sources of the Renaissance Maria Luisa Baldassari (Musical examples by Maria Luisa Baldassari and Augusta Campagne) The subject of fingering and hand position in Renaissance and Baroque keyboard music has been debated for many years, and the few extant theoretical and practical sources have been thoroughly studied and discussed. Important contributions …
Renaissance Keyboards in the Christian Kingdom of Sixteenth-Century Ethiopia1 Janie Cole Keyboards served as essential commodities in early modern European overseas exploration and expansion, and circulated as a motivation of colonial, diplomatic, commercial and religious interests. The presence of Western keyboard instruments in the Far East can be traced back to the 13th century, with an organ being sent from …
Repertoire, Interpretation and Meaning Andrés Cea Galán Bive agora Antonio el ciego, tañedor de la Capilla de la Emperatriz, que en el arte no se puede más exmerar, porque dicen que [ha] hallado el centro en el componer.1 This article aims to offer an overview of Antonio de Cabezón’s music in the European context of his time. Before entering into …
Programme of the Symposium ‘universum rei harmonicae concentum absolvunt’ Das Cembalo im 16. Jahrhundert / The Harpsichord in the 16th Century Symposium – Workshops – Recitals University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Department of Musicology and Performance Studies and Department of Early Music Vienna, 20–22 April 2021 Tuesday, 20 April 9:30 – 10:45 Opening Introduction (Augusta Campagne / Markus Grassl) …
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The Social Organization of Arts A Theoretical Compendium Volker Kirchberg and Tasos Zembylas In recent decades, social and economic changes have brought about a growing awareness of the role of art and culture in society. As a result, scholars have turned their attention to a sociological view of arts, developing hermeneutic approaches and conducting empirical research that have …
mdwPress is delighted to announce the successful relaunch of the journal Bulletin of empirical music education research (b:em). The journal has been redesigned and revamped with the move to mdwPress. This will be celebrated with a special issue on the occasion of the emeritus status of co-editor Prof. Dr. Andreas Lehmann-Wermser, who founded the open access journal b:em in 2010.
Populismus kritisieren Kunst – Politik – Geschlecht Evelyn Annuß, Ralf von Appen, Sarah Chaker, Silke Felber, Andrea Glauser, Therese Kaufmann, Susanne Lettow (Hg.) Rechtspopulistische Bewegungen und Diskurse greifen auf neue, ästhetisierte Politikstile und bis dato links konnotierte, künstlerisch erprobte Provokationsformen zurück. Zudem besetzen sie Geschlecht, Familie und Sexualität als Trigger-Themen. Die Beiträger*innen bringen die Populismusforschung mit geistes- und …
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