Sacred Traditions, Gender, and the Choir that Ate Hot Chili Peppers
On December 13, 2017, Danish entertainer Claus Pilgaard (stage name: Chili Klaus) released a YouTube video he made with the Herning… Read More
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Putting it Together: The Anatomy of a Solo YouTube Cover
By William O’Hara
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‘Tis the Season to be Melancholy: Sia’s Everyday Christmas
By Justin aDams Burton
Critics haven’t really loved Sia’s album of Christmas originals, Everyday is Christmas. For that matter, neither have listeners, as Everyday’s metacritic score is lagging significantly… Read More
Krzysztof Penderecki’s Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima and the Trinity Atomic Bomb Test in Twin Peaks: The Return
By Reba Wissner
When Part 8 of Twin Peaks: The Return aired on Showtime in June 2017, fans and critics alike referred… Read More
Optigan Allusions: Sonic Dislocation in The Return
By Frank Lehman
As an ardent fan of Lynch’s oeuvre, I have trained myself to relax my critical faculties when watching his… Read More
“Just You and I”: Performance, Nostalgia, and Narrative Space in The Return
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There’s Always Music in the Air: Sound Design in Twin Peaks: The Return
By Brooke McCorkleDavid Lynch has always walked the fine line between… Read More
Quick Takes on Twin Peaks
Musicology Now is delighted to offer a series of Quick Takes on music and sound in the reboot of… Read More
Holding Don Giovanni Accountable
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Dissertation Digest: Portraying the Anti-Heroine in Contemporary Opera
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Adventures in “Survey Adjacent” Music History Courses
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Quick Takes — Mother! as Impulse-Image: Sound, and the Steepest Slope
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Quick Takes — Sounding Empathy in Aronofsky’s Mother!
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Quick Takes — The Apocalypse “Through a Glass Darkly”
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Book Preview: Ferruccio Busoni and His Legacy
By Erinn Knyt Ultimately it is always in a man’s impact… Read More
Announcing Music and Social Justice, a New Series from University of Michigan Press
By William Cheng and Andrew Dell’Antonio From Plato to Public Enemy, people have debated the relationship between music and… Read More
Quick Takes — “Still Playing Games”: Considering Musical Meaning in an Assassin’s Creed Origins Trailer
By Will Gibbons In the years since Gary Jules’s cover of “Mad World” graced an influential 2006 teaser, covers or edited versions… Read More