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The Cries of London: On costers, pedlars, hawkers, fishwives, tinkers and barrow boys (2020)
Book Chapter
Macleod, D. (2020). The Cries of London: On costers, pedlars, hawkers, fishwives, tinkers and barrow boys. In The political voice (28-37). London: Theatrum Mundi

The history of London’s markets is a noisy one, where the ambient buzz of the crowd is overlaid with the musical Cries of the people who work there. In this chapter, Duncan MacLeod reflects on the sociological and sonic history of those cries, and dr... Read More about The Cries of London: On costers, pedlars, hawkers, fishwives, tinkers and barrow boys.

By the light of the moon.... (2020)
Other
Macleod, D. (2020). By the light of the moon.... [Score]. Nottingham, Lakeside Arts

By the light of the moon is the first in a series of short works for toy piano, piano and electronics that draw upon the poetry of Edward Lear. In this work, I start with the third verse of Lear’s famed poem, The Owl and the Pussy-cat, in which the c... Read More about By the light of the moon.....

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.2020.44.2.80

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.

The Solfeggio Tradition: A Forgotten Art of Melody in the Long Eighteenth Century (2020)
Book
Baragwanath, N. (2020). The Solfeggio Tradition: A Forgotten Art of Melody in the Long Eighteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197514085.001.0001

How did castrati manage to amaze their eighteenth-century audiences by singing the same aria several times in completely different ways? And how could composers of the time write operas in a matter of days? The secret lies in the solfeggio tradition,... Read More about The Solfeggio Tradition: A Forgotten Art of Melody in the Long Eighteenth Century.

Musical Portraits of St Guthlac (2020)
Book Chapter
Parkes, H. (2020). Musical Portraits of St Guthlac. In Guthlac: Crowland's Saint (277-297). Donington: Shaun Tyas

“I Can’t Be What You Expect of Me”: Power, Palatability, and Shame in Frozen: The Broadway Musical (2020)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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’.

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.

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.