Music Theory

Standard terms couldn't capture what happened when elderly Indigenous and Scottish descendants gathered at the Purga Music Museum. Former residents climbed church rafters for forgotten trophies. A pipe bandsman entertained students in a blonde wig. Christopher Small gave us 'musicking.' The added prefix 'ethno' brings meaning, belonging, and wellbeing into play. This is how curators and communities collaborate to map lost traditions, confront colonial songs, and recover what institutional segreg

Ever wanted to play the instruments that filled ancient Greek theaters with sound? The Euterpe School of Ancient Music offers you that chance—guided by global specialists in aulos, lyre, and the frame drum. Designed not only for classicists but for singers, conservatory students, composers, and all serious music-lovers, the course teaches circular breathing, hand independence, polyphonic playing, reed handling, modal ethos storytelling, and prosody. The workshop runs near Tarquinia, concluding w

What happens when you trade a classroom clavier for a keyboard at home and a teacher on a screen? For many students, switching to e-learning instruments forced both excitement and frustration. This study unpacks the real benefits — from flexible access to global music communities — and the challenges, including reluctant teachers and missing gear. You'll get findings from 220 music students, plus solid advice for handling practice-based subjects online.

Most published histories of the early clarinet rely on theoretical treatises. This one uses a different source: direct measurement and hands-on play of original instruments, from the broken Denner chalumeau in Munich to mature boxwood clarinets by Jacob Denner, Zencker, and Willems. Discover how a too-wide bore and too-small tone holes crippled the chalumeau’s sound, why J.C. Denner’s front key predates a true flared bell, and why a six-key classic was often more usable than a thirteen-key curio

From 1950s handhorns and string orchestras' to shaping early music percussion at Musica Reservata and co-founding NEMA, this insider's account reveals half a century of triumph and struggle. Dive deep into the movement's roots and its uncertain future as one of its key figures shares hard-won lessons on sound, authenticity, and why NEMA still matters.

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How do you truly understand musical terms from three centuries ago — terms still used today but carrying entirely different meanings? This article presents an ongoing doctoral research project that applies terminological methods, including corpus-based term extraction and historical synchrony analysis, to reconstruct the precise vocabulary of late 17th-century French and English music. Drawing on treatises, prefaces, and period writings, the study maps how terms lived, died, and sometimes came b

In 2001, a distinguished British choir toured São Paulo and Minas Gerais, performing locally composed colonial works that captivated audiences yet unsettled custodians of the repertoire. This event sparked international interest in Brazilian colonial music while raising thorny questions: Should musicologists “fix” a living tradition? What happens when tempo preferences clash with procession demands? Dive into a century-spanning story of archive discoveries, reorchestrations, and ethical negotiat

Intelligent music search goes beyond tagging: as vast digital libraries grow, content must be navigable by melody, harmony, or timbre. Music Information Retrieval (MIR) extracts musical structure from audio signals, allowing systems to match a hummed tune to a recording or find a theme in a seconds-long clip. This is the task that drives ISMIR conferences and defines the cutting edge of music data management.

The twentieth century gifted a volatile challenge to the twenty-first: difference. For music scholarship, this is not just about repertory — it’s about how we listen, think, research, and write. This article examines the quiet revolution behind a scholarly journal’s choice to embrace exclusion-defying pluralism. Two contrasting models emerge: a liberal, tolerance-based framework versus a radical, agonistic ideal derived from continental political theory. Whether championing the open contiguity o