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Transforming Practice: The Impact of Digital Scores on Creativity, Performance, and Accessibility (2025)
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Moroz, S., & Vear, C. (2025). Transforming Practice: The Impact of Digital Scores on Creativity, Performance, and Accessibility. Tempo, 79(313), 56-69. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040298225000129

This article presents an overview of findings from an ERC-funded DigiScore project that investigates how digital technologies are reshaping music creation, performance, and accessibility. Digital scores, defined as interactive interfaces for musical... Read More about Transforming Practice: The Impact of Digital Scores on Creativity, Performance, and Accessibility.

Per florida ad astra: Musical Insights into the Monastic Star Timetable (Oxford, MS Bodley 38) and the Cultural Life of Early Eleventh-Century Fleury (2025)
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Parkes, H. (2025). Per florida ad astra: Musical Insights into the Monastic Star Timetable (Oxford, MS Bodley 38) and the Cultural Life of Early Eleventh-Century Fleury. Journal of Musicology, 42(2), 185-223

The eleventh-century manuscript Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 38 is celebrated for its remarkable monastic horologium, or star timetable, which uses the stars to determine the timing of the Night Office liturgy. Recent scholarship has confirmed... Read More about Per florida ad astra: Musical Insights into the Monastic Star Timetable (Oxford, MS Bodley 38) and the Cultural Life of Early Eleventh-Century Fleury.

Transforming Practice with Digital Scores: Developments and Challenges in a Transcontinental Residency (2024)
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Robertson, J., Moroz, S., Hope, C., Vear, C., Sanadzadeh, I., Svoboda, H., & Sobek, C. (2024). Transforming Practice with Digital Scores: Developments and Challenges in a Transcontinental Residency. Tempo, 78(309), 37-48. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040298224000044

This article examines how practice-based researchers in a transcontinental intensive residency transformed their practice and developed their skills through composing digital scores. Four researchers from an Australian university undertook an intensi... Read More about Transforming Practice with Digital Scores: Developments and Challenges in a Transcontinental Residency.

Note-Naming, Galant Schemata, and the "Thread" of Vivaldi's Concerto for Four Violins, Op.3 No.10 (RV 580) (2024)
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Baragwanath, N. (2024). Note-Naming, Galant Schemata, and the "Thread" of Vivaldi's Concerto for Four Violins, Op.3 No.10 (RV 580). Music Theory and Analysis, 11(1), 48-78. https://doi.org/10.11116/mta.11.1.3

Part I surveys the language code applied to the theory of Galant schemata, which builds upon Gjerdingen’s 2007 study of “stock musical patterns” in the eighteenth century. These are determined primarily by “contrapuntal skeletons” between descant and... Read More about Note-Naming, Galant Schemata, and the "Thread" of Vivaldi's Concerto for Four Violins, Op.3 No.10 (RV 580).

Introduction (2024)
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van Tour, P., & Baragwanath, N. (2024). Introduction. Music Theory and Analysis, 11(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.11116/mta.11.1.0

The study of European music in the long eighteenth century has advanced rapidly since the publication in 2007 of Robert O. Gjerdingen's Music in the Galant Style, which not only consolidated the theory of stock patterns (or schemas) used in compositi... Read More about Introduction.

Diving Deep with Nautilus: An Analysis of Musicking with a Digital Score (2024)
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Vear, C., & Moroz, S. (2024). Diving Deep with Nautilus: An Analysis of Musicking with a Digital Score. Journal of Creative Music Systems, 8(1), https://doi.org/10.5920/jcms.1261

In this article, we discuss the analytical findings from a qualitative investigation of musicking (Small, 1998) with a digital score. The main focus of this article is our methodology and the outline of our methods. The composition at the centre of t... Read More about Diving Deep with Nautilus: An Analysis of Musicking with a Digital Score.

The Medieval Chants for Ste Foy Considered through the Prism of Their Nocturnal Performance (2023)
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Parkes, H. (2023). The Medieval Chants for Ste Foy Considered through the Prism of Their Nocturnal Performance. Arts, 12(5), Article 188. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts12050188

The medieval cult of Ste Foy inspired several sets of liturgical chants, or historiae, including at least two that were probably made for use at Conques in the early eleventh century. Whilst it is widely understood that historia chants belonged withi... Read More about The Medieval Chants for Ste Foy Considered through the Prism of Their Nocturnal Performance.

Worker Internationalism, Local Song and the Politics of Urban Space (2023)
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Boyd-Bennett, H. (2023). Worker Internationalism, Local Song and the Politics of Urban Space. Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 147(2), 571-582. https://doi.org/10.1017/rma.2022.26

At the height of the strikes and factory occupations that marked Turin’s biennio rosso (‘two red years’, 1919–20) a series of songs circulated among the workers. I will focus on two of these songs – La guardia rossa and Miśeria, miśeria – to listen t... Read More about Worker Internationalism, Local Song and the Politics of Urban Space.

NAUTILUS: A CASE STUDY IN HOW A DIGITAL SCORE CAN TRANSFORM CREATIVITY (2023)
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Vear, C., Rees, C., & Stephenson, A. (2023). NAUTILUS: A CASE STUDY IN HOW A DIGITAL SCORE CAN TRANSFORM CREATIVITY. Tempo, 77(303), 33-42. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040298222000791

This article discusses Nautilus (2022), a composition for solo bass flute created using machine-learning techniques and a Unity game engine. We consider the approaches we adopted and how they enhanced creativity and musicianship for those involved. W... Read More about NAUTILUS: A CASE STUDY IN HOW A DIGITAL SCORE CAN TRANSFORM CREATIVITY.

Crafting Trajectories of Smart Phone Use at the Opera (2022)
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Greenhalgh, C., Hazzard, A., Benford, S., Cliffe, L., & Kelly, E. (2022). Crafting Trajectories of Smart Phone Use at the Opera. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 29(6), 1-37. https://doi.org/10.1145/3531007

Losing Her Voice is a new opera which highlights the challenges of subtly interweaving digital technologies into established cultural forms. Audience members were encouraged to use their own mobile phones to interact with on-stage projections before,... Read More about Crafting Trajectories of Smart Phone Use at the Opera.

From AI, creativity and music to IoT, HCI, musical instrument design and audio interaction: a journey in sound (2021)
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Chamberlain, A., Hazzard, A., Kelly, E., Bødker, M., & Kallionpää, M. (2021). From AI, creativity and music to IoT, HCI, musical instrument design and audio interaction: a journey in sound. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 25(4), 617-620. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-021-01554-z

This introduction brings together a range of research, a majority of which was presented at the Audio Mostly conference hosted at the University of Nottingham. The conference brings together a range of researchers, industry, designers and educators t... Read More about From AI, creativity and music to IoT, HCI, musical instrument design and audio interaction: a journey in sound.

Between Beethoven and Mendelssohn: Biographical Constructions of Berlioz in the London Press (2020)
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Cormac, J. (2020). Between Beethoven and Mendelssohn: Biographical Constructions of Berlioz in the London Press. 19th-Century Music, 44(2), 80-99. https://doi.org/10.1525/ncm.2020.44.2.80

In 1853 a writer for the London-based periodical Fraser's Magazine remarked that Berlioz's “heroic temperament” could be “read legibly in the noble style of his compositions. His own life forms to these works the most interesting accompaniment and co... Read More about Between Beethoven and Mendelssohn: Biographical Constructions of Berlioz in the London Press.

“I Can’t Be What You Expect of Me”: Power, Palatability, and Shame in Frozen: The Broadway Musical (2020)
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Robbins, H. (2020). “I Can’t Be What You Expect of Me”: Power, Palatability, and Shame in Frozen: The Broadway Musical. Arts, 9(1), Article 39. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts9010039

This article combines critical, cultural, and musical analysis to situate Frozen: The Broadway Musical as a distinct work within Disney’s wider franchise. In this article, I consider the evolution of Elsa’s character on stage and the role of addition... Read More about “I Can’t Be What You Expect of Me”: Power, Palatability, and Shame in Frozen: The Broadway Musical.

Henry II, liturgical patronage and the birth of the ‘Romano‐German Pontifical’ (2020)
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Parkes, H. (2020). Henry II, liturgical patronage and the birth of the ‘Romano‐German Pontifical’. Early Medieval Europe, 28(1), 104-141. https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12389

Variously acclaimed as coepiscopus, saint and Mönchskönig, Henry II of Germany has always had a reputation as a quasi‐religious figure. This article goes a step further, appending to his résumé the creation of the wildly successful liturgical traditi... Read More about Henry II, liturgical patronage and the birth of the ‘Romano‐German Pontifical’.

Death and Resurrection Motifs in Narratives of Berlioz's and Liszt's Lives: D'Ortigue, Ramann, and Berlioz's Mémoires (2019)
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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)
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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.