Music to Dante's ears : exposure to polyphony -- Inferno's unholy racket -- Purgatorio : musical liturgy as Pharmakon -- Paradiso : the attuning of the sky -- The music of the spheres
"Although Dante's Commedia has inspired a number of musical compositions, such as Tchaikovsky's symphonic poem Francesca Da Rimini and Rachmaninov's opera by the same name, and various syncretic studies on these works, until now there has not been a study that addresses the actual underlying musical framework of Dante's poem. In Dante's Journey to Polyphony, Francesco Ciabattoni examines the role of the musical performances in the Commedia and, more specifically, how the presentation of sacred music unfolds throughout the entire poem and constitutes a structural pillar of the narrative discourse." "Thoroughly grounded in musicological and philological scholarship, Dance's Journey to Polyphony provides the first organic treatment of the theme of Dante and music. Moving from the philosophical foundations of music and from a study of the diffusion of polyphony in Tuscany during Dante's day, Ciabattoni outlines the intricate musical design in the texture of the poem. An analysis of the musical passages in the Commedia shows that, from infernal cacophony, through purgatorial monophony, to paradisiacal polyphony, sacred songs constitute a thoroughly planned system accompanying the pilgrim's itinerary. Far from being a mere decorative element, Ciabattoni argues, music in the Commedia can be regarded as a necessary complement to the great liturgy of the sacred poem."--Jacket
Introduction. The future of music research in Australia and the legacy of Mozart note crunching / Steven Knopoff -- Performance, aesthetics, experience : thoughts on Yawulyu Mungamunga songs / Linda Barwick
The performance of early music. Johannes de Grocheo's De musica as a guidebook for thirteenth-century Parisian musical practice / Carol Williams -- Comparative aesthetic thought in early eighteenth-century England / Barnaby Ralph -- A brief polemic about the early music movement / Michael O'Loghlin -- Early music performance in Australia : cultural and historical perspectives / David Irving -- Producing major early music events in a conservatorium context : lessons learned / Peter Roennfeldt
Aesthetics and experience in music of the eighteenth century. An experimental investigation of musical character portrayed by piano versus harpsichord performances of a J.S. Bach excerpt / Emery Schubert and Dorottya Fabian -- The nurturing of the late eighteenth-century prima donna / Samantha Cobcroft -- Meaning in harpsichord decoration : the Flemish and French schools of soundboard painting / Ayako Otomo
Music as cultural product. Let's hear it for the boys : the place of boys' music in a feminist world / Scott D. Harrison -- The learning and transmission of Rebetika in the Greek-Australian diaspora community in Melbourne / Kipps Horn -- Celebration of cover up? : "My island home", Australian national identity and the spectacle of Sydney 2000 / Katelyn Barney -- "Don't you know they're talking about a revolution" : the trovador in socialist Cuba / Susan Monk -- Writing close to dance : expression in Yolngu performance / Franca Tamisari -- On slumber sea : lullaby as transitional vehicle / Robyn Brady
Gender issues and queer musicology. Women and music. The personal is political is musical : understanding aboriginal women's performance practice / Liz Mackinlay -- Reflections on females conducting / Brydie-Leigh Bartleet -- Women do country music : Australian women's country music and music culture scholarship / Shirley Tucker. Queer musicology. Inside out : queer theory and popular culture / Mark McLelland -- Queer musicology / John Phillips -- Opening Pandora's box : role and representation in music criticism in late nineteenth-century Melbourne / Johanna Selleck
Music education, musicology, and technology : performing relationships. Musicology and music education. Re/positioning the relationship between musicology and music education : an introduction / Kathryn Russell -- Does musicology have something to offer music education? : reflections from the classroom / James Cuskelly -- The interface between musicology and music education : an ethnomusicological perspective / Elizabeth Mackinlay. Music and technology. Learning through recording / Don Lebler -- Meaningful engagement with music technology / Steve Dillon
The present volume is an examination of aesthetics and experience in music over a wide range of areas of contemporary interest to musicology. Early music, the eighteenth century, gender studies, music technology, music education and ethnomusicology are all subsumed and unified under this theme
