Tag Archives: Music
American Originals
Richard Hart discusses the Zuni Indian culture of the American Southwest. Richard A. Peterson discusses American country music, authenticity, and commercialization. 514 – American Originals
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Medieval Melody
Janet Knapp discusses her forthcoming study, The Polyphonic Conductus, an examination of texts and performance of 12 and 13th century European music, with examples courtesy of students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and from Vassar College. … Continue reading
Yemeni Music and Tradition
Philip Schuyler is an ethnomusicologist who has worked for many years in the Middle East. During a fellowship year at the National Humanities Center, he is at work on a study entitled The Politics of Tradition: Music and Musicians in … Continue reading
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Tagged Humanities, Middle East, Music, Politics
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Word Jazz
Formed in 1955, the Mitchell-Ruff Duo was said in 1987 to be the oldest continuous jazz group. In 1959 Dwike Mitchell and Willie Ruff introduced Soviet audiences to American jazz and then performed worldwide. Among the group’s recordings was Enduring Magic (Blackhawk Recordings, … Continue reading
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Music and Expression
According to Wendy Allanbrook, cultural historians have described the nature of musical expression in terms of two primary categories—as autonomous, formal, and numerable, but also as affective and imitative of the human and the mundane. Central to Allanbrook’s study of … Continue reading
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Tagged Classical Music, History, Music, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Music from the Smithsonian, Part 2 of 2
James Weaver concludes his discussion and presentation of selections from the collection of restored musical instruments at the Smithsonian Institution. Among the selections discussed and performed are pieces by the eighteenth-century English composer John Stafford Smith (composer of “The Star-Spangled … Continue reading
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Music from the Smithsonian, Part 1 of 2
James Weaver discusses the collection, restoration, and performance of restored musical instruments that are owned by the Smithsonian Institution. The research-based collection spans the seventeenth through the twentieth century and represents Continental and English as well as Afro-American influences. Recorded … Continue reading
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Modern Music and the Tradition, Part 2 of 2
Following episode 257 (Sept. 1, 1985) about the status of classical music in the 1980s and the musical canon and its historical and contemporary shapers, Soundings presents a performance of the 1984 Kennedy Center Friedheim Award–winning composition, Symphony no. 2, … Continue reading
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Tagged Kennedy Center Friedheim Award, Music, Music -- Composers, Performance
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Modern Music and the Tradition, Part 1 of 2
Music historians Edward Applebaum and William Prizer address the subject of modern music and its evolving place in the musical canon. Joseph Addison, the eighteenth-century man of letters, wrote “Music, the greatest good that mortals know / And all of heaven we have … Continue reading
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Tagged Classical Music, Kennedy Center Friedheim Award, Modern Music, Music
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Music at Mantua
Throughout history, music for both popular and specialized audiences has come from cultural and social contexts that are foreign to modern listeners. William Prizer describes Italian court music of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and the distinct social function of music … Continue reading
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