Regionalising The Nation: The Symphonies of Franz Lachner and Emilie Mayer in Relationship to German National Identity
(2024)
Journal Article
Cormac, J. (in press). Regionalising The Nation: The Symphonies of Franz Lachner and Emilie Mayer in Relationship to German National Identity. Journal of the American Musicological Society,
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Between Beethoven and Mendelssohn: Biographical Constructions of Berlioz in the London Press (2020)
Journal Article
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.2020.44.2.80In 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.
Introduction: Music and Biography (2020)
Journal Article
Cormac, J. (2020). Introduction: Music and Biography. 19th-Century Music, 44(2), 61-66. https://doi.org/10.1525/ncm.2020.44.2.61
The Audible Artefact: Promoting Cultural Exploration and Engagement with Audio Augmented Reality (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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/10.1145/3356590.3356617This 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/10.1080/01411896.2019.1634474The 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/gdz005This 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.
Liszt and the symphonic poem (2017)
Book
CORMAC, J. (2017). Liszt and the symphonic poem. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316850374Franz Liszt was preoccupied with a fundamental but difficult question: what is the content of music? His answer lay in his symphonic poems, a group of orchestral pieces intended to depict a variety of subjects drawn from literature, visual art and dr... Read More about Liszt and the symphonic poem.
From satirical piece to commercial product: the mid-Victorian opera burlesque and its bourgeois audience (2017)
Journal Article
Cormac, J. (in press). From satirical piece to commercial product: the mid-Victorian opera burlesque and its bourgeois audience. Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 142(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/02690403.2017.1286124Current studies of burlesque position it as a subversive genre that questioned cultural and social hierarchies and spoke to diverse audiences. Central to this interpretation are burlesque’s juxtapositions of high and low culture, particularly popular... Read More about From satirical piece to commercial product: the mid-Victorian opera burlesque and its bourgeois audience.