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Berno Augiensis Tractatus liturgici (2019)
Book
PARKES, H. (2019). Berno Augiensis Tractatus liturgici. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers

This volume offers the first modern edition and study of the liturgical writings of Bern, abbot of Reichenau (d. 1048). Dealing with some of the more ordinary questions facing medieval worshipping communities – such as how to find the correct date fo... Read More about Berno Augiensis Tractatus liturgici.

The Cries of London (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Macleod, D. (2019, December). The Cries of London. Paper presented at Crafting a Sonic Urbanism: the Political Voice, Paris, France

Since the late 19th Century, public vocalizations in urban spaces have been on the wane, brought about in part through a combination of direct legislation and changes in commerce, most markedly the emergence of digital technology. Moreover, economic... Read More about The Cries of London.

'Too Darn Hot': Reimagining Kiss Me Kate For The Silver Screen (2019)
Book Chapter
Robbins, H. (2019). 'Too Darn Hot': Reimagining Kiss Me Kate For The Silver Screen. In The Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations (273-292). New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190469993.013.7

This chapter looks at sexuality in the movie Kiss Me Kate, and it is also viewed through the lens of race. Although the film seems on the surface to be a comparatively faithful adaptation of the stage musical, the chapter highlights that it betrays t... Read More about 'Too Darn Hot': Reimagining Kiss Me Kate For The Silver Screen.

A Bridge Too Far?: Music in the British War Film, 1945?1979 (2019)
Book Chapter
Cooke, M. (2019). A Bridge Too Far?: Music in the British War Film, 1945?1979. In M. Baumgartner, & E. Boczkowska (Eds.), Music, Memory, Nostalgia and Trauma in European Cinema after the Second World War. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

The Audible Artefact: Promoting Cultural Exploration and Engagement with Audio Augmented Reality (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Cliffe, L., Mansell, J., Cormac, J., Greenhalgh, C., & Hazzard, A. (2019). The Audible Artefact: Promoting Cultural Exploration and Engagement with Audio Augmented Reality. In Proceedings of AM '19, Nottingham, United Kingdom, September 18-20, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3356590.3356617

This paper introduces two ongoing projects where audio augmented reality is implemented as a means of engaging museum and gallery visitors with audio archive material and associated objects, artworks and artefacts. It outlines some of the issues surr... Read More about The Audible Artefact: Promoting Cultural Exploration and Engagement with Audio Augmented Reality.

Death and Resurrection Motifs in Narratives of Berlioz's and Liszt's Lives: D'Ortigue, Ramann, and Berlioz's Mémoires (2019)
Journal Article
Cormac, J. (2019). Death and Resurrection Motifs in Narratives of Berlioz's and Liszt's Lives: D'Ortigue, Ramann, and Berlioz's Mémoires. Journal of Musicological Research, 38(3-4), 216-232. https://doi.org/10.1080/01411896.2019.1634474

The ways in which biographers mythologize their subjects’ lives (and the way they mythologize their own lives) have long been a topic of research in life-writing. Even though several musicologists have identified mythologizing “motifs,” the mythologi... Read More about Death and Resurrection Motifs in Narratives of Berlioz's and Liszt's Lives: D'Ortigue, Ramann, and Berlioz's Mémoires.

Intertextuality, subjectivity, and meaning in Liszt’s Deux Polonaises (2019)
Journal Article
Cormac, J. (2019). Intertextuality, subjectivity, and meaning in Liszt’s Deux Polonaises. Musical Quarterly, 102(1), 111–152. https://doi.org/10.1093/musqtl/gdz005

This article brings the concepts of intertextuality and subjectivity into dialogue in order to advance our understanding of both and to generate new readings of two pieces that are rich in intertextual relationships and also raise complex questions a... Read More about Intertextuality, subjectivity, and meaning in Liszt’s Deux Polonaises.

Losing Her Voice : an opera in two acts for four singers, chorus, mixed septet and audience mobile phone interaction (2019)
Other
KELLY, E. (2019). Losing Her Voice : an opera in two acts for four singers, chorus, mixed septet and audience mobile phone interaction. Nottingham Lakeside Arts Djanogly Theatre, Nottingham, NG7 2RD

A new interactive opera inspired by America’s first true superstar – Geraldine Farrar, will let the audience be part of the performance, thanks to the collaborative efforts of experts in music and computer science from the University of Nottingham an... Read More about Losing Her Voice : an opera in two acts for four singers, chorus, mixed septet and audience mobile phone interaction.

The Metalization of a Dream : for open instrumentation and electronics (2019)
Other
Macleod, D. (2019). The Metalization of a Dream : for open instrumentation and electronics. The Lit & Phil, Newcastle, 23 Westgate Rd, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 1SE

The Metalization of a Dream is an open form sound-work responding to the dada and surrealist-inspired collages of Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005). A pioneer of pop art, Paolozzi’s practice drew inspiration from artists that utilise similar collage and c... Read More about The Metalization of a Dream : for open instrumentation and electronics.