Browsing by Subject "Musicology"
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Differentiae in the Cantus Manuscript Database: A Cross-Manuscript Analysis
(2019-08-19)The differentia standardization project for the Cantus Manuscript Database enables previously unfeasible comparisons of 159 manuscripts from the tenth to the seventeenth centuries containing a total of 129,526 antiphons ... -
Free Thinkers Are Dangerous! Millennial Counterculture and the Music of System of a Down
(2016-04-07)System of a Down is an Armenian-American heavy metal band who participated in a counterculture around the turn of the millennium, both through its music and through its members’ participation in activism. I situate both ... -
Mass Romantics: Grappling with Genre in 2000s Indie Rock
(2015)In the early 2000s, popular music’s indie rock genre reached unprecedented levels of commercial success: on the sales and singles charts, in television ads and programs, on music and pop-culture websites, at sold-out music ... -
Nova Scotian Roots: Teaching Cultural Imperialism through Music Education
(2015)The colonial history of Nova Scotia is a complex web of power, violence, and displacement that is often not acknowledged at an institutional level. The impact of this history has left a permanent imprint on the social and ... -
Sounding Disability in Musical Theatre: Sonic Markers of Mental Impairment for Female Characters on the Contemporary Broadway Stage
(2018-03-16)Contemporary Broadway composers such as Stephen Sondheim, Adam Guettel and Tom Kitt are changing the way we hear disability. Musicals such as Passion (1994), The Light in the Piazza (2004) and Next to Normal (2008), all ...