Vida de Schubert

Vladimir Jankélévitch argues that composer Franz Liszt was a leading champion of musical modernity who knew how to express the new aesthetic change of direction in 19th-century European music better than anyone, save Frédéric Chopin. This new style was the opposite of the abstract universality of the symphony and the totalitarianism of the Viennese conservatory. With the reinforcement of national and even provincial rights, the so-called savagery of rhapsody finally turned its back to solemn music, thus beginning the revolution of humility. Liszt gave voice to the land, much as Victor...

Professor Snow's auspicious debut in musicology came in 1958 as the author of the chapter on Old Roman chant in Willi Apel's Gregorian Chant. He completed his doctorate at the University of Illinois in 1968, and his major faculty appointments have been at the University of Pittsburgh, University of Illinois, and University of Texas. His publications range from the medieval era to the baroque, most of them dealing with sacred music in Spain, Portugal, the Hispanic New World, and eastern Europe. Encomium Musicae will present over 40 articles by scholars from seven different countries, most of...

An ethnography of music and dance exploring the economic, social, and ideological constraints under which social classes and racial groups interact

Con esta publicación, dedicada al charango, se ofrece a la musicología continental una obra llena de peculiaridades conceptuales. Un libro y una idea llevados a cabo por el Julio Mendívil, etnomusicologo peruano residente en Austria, quien, además de notable intelectual, especialista en música andina y profesor universitario, es él mismo interprete del charango. El libro contiene artículos de 19 autores, provenientes de países diversos, desde grandes pioneros de la musicología continental como el argentino Carlos Vega y el narrador y antropólogo peruano Jose María Arguedas, figura...