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Behind Hartker's Antiphoner: neglected fragments of the earliest Sankt Gallen tonary (2018)
Journal Article
Parkes, H. (2018). Behind Hartker's Antiphoner: neglected fragments of the earliest Sankt Gallen tonary. Early Music History, 37, 183-246. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0261127918000050

Prior to the famous Hartker Antiphoner (Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 390/391), copied in Sankt Gallen c. 1000, there survives no complete, fully-notated witness to the Romano-Frankish chant repertory for the Office. Scholars have long known a... Read More about Behind Hartker's Antiphoner: neglected fragments of the earliest Sankt Gallen tonary.

Musical cosmopolitanism in late-colonial Hanoi (2018)
Journal Article
Ó Briain, L. (2018). Musical cosmopolitanism in late-colonial Hanoi. Ethnomusicology Forum, 27(3), 265-285. https://doi.org/10.1080/17411912.2018.1521728

This article investigates how radio was used to amplify the reach of vernacular forms of musical cosmopolitanism in late-colonial Hanoi. Between 1948 and the early 1950s, the musicians of Việt Nhạc – the first all-Vietnamese ensemble to appear regula... Read More about Musical cosmopolitanism in late-colonial Hanoi.

Opera in postwar Venice: cultural politics and the Avant-Garde (2018)
Book
Boyd-Bennett, H. (2018). Opera in postwar Venice: cultural politics and the Avant-Garde. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316718476

Beginning from the unlikely vantage point of Venice in the aftermath of fascism and World War II, this book explores operatic production in the city's nascent postwar culture as a lens onto the relationship between opera and politics in the twentieth... Read More about Opera in postwar Venice: cultural politics and the Avant-Garde.

A landscape of design: Interaction, interpretation and the development of experimental expressive interfaces (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chamberlain, A., Bødker, M., De Roure, D., Willcox, P., Emsley, I., & Malizia, A. (2018, July). A landscape of design: Interaction, interpretation and the development of experimental expressive interfaces. Presented at HCI: International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

This short paper presents the initial research insights of an ongoing research project that focuses upon understanding the role of landscape, its use as a resource for designing interfaces for musical expression, and as a tool for leveraging ethnogra... Read More about A landscape of design: Interaction, interpretation and the development of experimental expressive interfaces.

Sounding out the space: a composer’s perspective on Spatial Music (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macleod, D. (2018, April). Sounding out the space: a composer’s perspective on Spatial Music. Paper presented at sound agendas composers’ conference, The University of Sheffield

Pierre Boulez cites space as being the fifth dimension of music (1963). However Alvin Lucier observes that although considerable effort is put into the conception, generation and notation of music relatively little thought is given to the actual prop... Read More about Sounding out the space: a composer’s perspective on Spatial Music.

No Man is an Island (2018)
Other
Macleod, D. (2018). No Man is an Island. [Score]. London

A five-minute setting of John Donne's Mediation XVII written for solo voice and electronics. Premiered by SoundKarD at nonclassical, London. 12/04/2018.

Cut, Strike, Throw, Grip. (2018)
Other
MACLEOD, D. (2018). Cut, Strike, Throw, Grip. [Score]. Edinburgh

This work draw inspiration from the ancient Highland Bagpipe and Clarsach music known as Pibroch or Ceol Mor. Comprised of a theme and variations Pibroch utilises ornamentation as a means to mark and decorate each variation. Moreover as an oral tradi... Read More about Cut, Strike, Throw, Grip..

Rondeau Mélancolique (2018)
Other
Rozsa, L., McCartney, A., & Rees, J. (2018). Rondeau Mélancolique

[Music performance freely available to play via website and buy as a CD or digital download on bandcamp.]

Musical Minorities: The Sounds of Hmong Ethnicity in Northern Vietnam (2018)
Book
O'Briain, L. (2018). Musical Minorities: The Sounds of Hmong Ethnicity in Northern Vietnam. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190626969.001.0001

© Oxford University Press 2018. Musical Minorities is the first English-language monograph on the performing arts of an ethnic minority in Vietnam. Living primarily in the northern mountains, many of the one million Hmong in Vietnam have strategicall... Read More about Musical Minorities: The Sounds of Hmong Ethnicity in Northern Vietnam.