My article strives to study phonography in Portugal between the 1900 recording sessions for The Gramophone Company and the company’s first significant Portuguese catalogue, printed in December 1908. I aim to trace the transformations undertaken in the discs and repertoires along with their segmentation during the first decade of Portuguese p…[Read more]

Review of the literature on pictograph sites in the Canadian Shield with specific reference to those found in the Lake of the Woods, in north-western Ontario, Canada.

In der Einleitung zum Sammelband Auditive Wissenskulturen – Das Wissen klanglicher Praxis stellen die Autoren zuerst die Diskrepanzen der jeweiligen Beziehungen des Visuellen und des Auditiven zu Wissen anhand einiger Beispiele vor. Sie exemplifzieren auch, wie sowohl auditive Praxis als auch die Hervorbringung und Vermittlung von Wissen in s…[Read more]

Through the example of Barry Jenkins’ choices for Moonlight (2016), this chapter argues that pre-existing musical cues can link a film’s themes to other minority filmmaking traditions. The song at the center of this chapter, “Cucurrucucú Paloma,” exemplifies the kinds of cultural translations common in transnational queer cinema. It was orig…[Read more]

This contribution focuses on strategies to bridge what in anthropology is called ontological incommensurability: Indigenous worlds often seem inaccessible to modern thought. Instead of trying to open Indigenous worlds to Westerners, I rather intend to make Western worlds accessible to Indigenous thought; and likewise, academic disciplines…[Read more]

A comprehensive list of books, articles, theses, and other material covering the brass band movement, its history, instruments and musicology; together with other related topics (originally issued in book form in January 2009. [c. 12, 710 entries]

Im Jahr 2002 kam die fast verzweifelte Suche nach Beethovens verschollenem Oboenkonzert zu einem vorläufigen Ende, weil die Forschung an dieser Stelle nicht weiterkam. Jetzt habe ich neue Hinweise auf das autographe Dokument gefunden – und auch auf Mozarts verschollenes Oboenkonzert sowie auf eine unbekannte Oper von Joseph Haydn. Es ist kein Zu…[Read more]

In 2002 the research for Beethoven’s lost oboe concerto came to a temporary end. Now I’ve found new leads to the autograph manuscript – and to Mozart’s lost oboe concerto, too, and to a lost opera of Joseph Haydn. It is no coincidence that all autograph manuscripts are missing at the same time: They were together and possibly are, played in a c…[Read more]

An example of the brass bands established by various children’s homes, orphanages and similar institutions, around the world in the early 20th century. This French orphanage fanfare band was founded on charitable principles, to give the children musical training and discipline, and to help raise funds for the home.

A look at the brief history of this band from central Wisconsin in the 1880’s

En este artículo presentamos una primera aproximación a un conjunto de textos hasta ahora desconocidos del músico y musicólogo catalán exiliado Baltasar Samper, responsable, desde 1947 y hasta su muerte, de dirigir los trabajos etnomusicológicos de la Sección de Investigaciones Musicales del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes mexicano. Con esto q…[Read more]

BB 41 – Es funkeln tausend Perlen in demGlas in meiner Hand – Thousand perls – piano solo –
paraphrase of Rebrov-version “Poj Zigan” from N.Nekrasov`s 1861 Коробейники peddler / Коробушка, box (of peddlers) – audio

BB 41 – Es funkeln tausend Perlen in dem Glas in meiner Hand – Thousand perls – piano solo –
paraphrase of Rebrov-version “Poj Zigan” from the poem Korobeiniki Коробейники peddler / Коробушка, box (of peddlers) by N.Nekrasov`s 1861 – sheetmusic

BB 38 – O sanctissima – O du froehliche – Weihnachtliche Spielmusik – Christmas Merry Go Round
– great organ – audio

BB 38 – O sanctissima – O du froehliche – Weihnachtliche Spielmusik – – Christmas Merry Go Round – great organ – sheetmusic – 2010, 2nd ed.
– said from Sicilian origin, not confirmed nor verified

BB 37 – Prelude Daughter Zion – great organ – 2010, 2nd. ed. – audio

BB 37 – Präludium Tochter Zion – Prelude Daughter Zion – great organ – – sheetmusic – 2010, 2nd ed.