{"title":"Family Values: The Trapp Family Singers in North America, 1938-1956","authors":"M. Saffle","doi":"10.7202/1014583AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1014583AR","url":null,"abstract":"Overlooked or ignored for decades by music historians and specialists in performance practices, the real-life Trapp Family Singers achieved enormous success especially in Canada and the United States during the late 1930s, 1940s, and early 1950s through their appeal to—and consequent reception in terms of—\"family values.\" These values included, but were not altogether limited to, the Trapp's Christian faith, patriotic activities, and contributions to charitable causes, as well as the wholesome image associated with the family's private lives, their Vermont \"Sing Weeks,\" and their more than 1,800 estimated concert appearances.","PeriodicalId":224798,"journal":{"name":"Canadian University Music Review","volume":"317 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123553476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Classical Music Criticism at the Globe and Mail: 1936-2000\"","authors":"Colin Eatock","doi":"10.7202/1014580AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1014580AR","url":null,"abstract":"This article is a study of developments in classical music criticism at the Toronto-based Globe and Mail newspaper from its inception in 1936 to the year 2000. Three distinct time-periods are identified, according to content, style and ideology: 1936-1952, a period of boosterism, when critics often saw it as their role to support Toronto's musicians and musical institutions; 1952-1987, when (during the lengthy tenure of critic John Kraglund) the newspaper took a more detached, non-partisan stance towards musicians and musical activities in the city; and 1987-2000, when critics began to address social, political, and economic issues governing classical music, and to question inherited cultural assumptions about the art form.","PeriodicalId":224798,"journal":{"name":"Canadian University Music Review","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123763859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"« Les mutations componentielles de l'objet-chanson »","authors":"J. Surmont","doi":"10.7202/1014672AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1014672AR","url":null,"abstract":"Differentes typologies des chansons ont jusqu’a ce jour ete etablies. Elles tiennent compte notamment de la thematique, de l’heritage esthetique, des types de refrain, etc. La typologie de cet article delaisse les criteres thematiques afin de mettre en relief les metissages entre la chanson signee (auteur et/ou compositeur connu et ne dans un contexte editorial) et la chanson de tradition orale (qui circule par la transmission orale). Ces metissages sont bases sur les processus de diffusion, de reception et de creation des objets-chansons. Dans ce cadre, il a semble important a l’auteur de creer une terminologie adequate permettant de tenir compte de l’ensemble des objets-chansons, du Moyen Âge a nos jours. Les exemples sont essentiellement puises a la culture francophone.","PeriodicalId":224798,"journal":{"name":"Canadian University Music Review","volume":"82 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114330072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Apropos Aesthetic Autonomy","authors":"F. Sallis","doi":"10.7202/1014668AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1014668AR","url":null,"abstract":"The present contribution to the Colloquy takes issue with problematic positions on aesthetic autonomy in music, which have appeared over the past couple of years in the pages of this journal. The tone is frank, the intention is constructive and the point is to engage in an exchange of ideas with colleagues who may have different points of view on these matters.","PeriodicalId":224798,"journal":{"name":"Canadian University Music Review","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127750590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La Frauenseele dans tous ses états : les Altenberg lieder, opus 4, nos II et III de Berg comme réponse à la Frauenfrage viennoise","authors":"Julie Pedneault Deslauriers","doi":"10.7202/1014582AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1014582AR","url":null,"abstract":"Cet article effectue une analyse hermeneutique des Altenberg Lieder opus 4 nos 2 et 3 d’Alban Berg. Les lieder sont analyses a la lumiere de l’esthetique de la persona feminine developpee par le controverse poete (et ami de Berg) Peter Altenberg, et qui prendrait le nom de « Frauenkult ». L’auteure demontre ici comment le traitement motivique, les strategies de conduite des voix et leur relation avec les poemes selectionnes par Berg font resonner deux des conceptions principales du Frauenkult : la valorisation d’une sexualite feminine plus autonome et la transcendance de l’âme feminine.","PeriodicalId":224798,"journal":{"name":"Canadian University Music Review","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116165478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deconstructing the Local: The Aesthetic Space and Geographic Place of Oskar Morawetz's String Quartet no. 5 \"A Tribute to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart\" (1991)","authors":"F. Sallis","doi":"10.7202/1014669AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1014669AR","url":null,"abstract":"The oppositional notions of centre and periphery, mainstream and margin, and universal and local have long been important criteria for the scholarly study of Western music. Indeed they are often taken for granted. This paper will take a critical look at the relationship obtaining between art music the notion of a national music. The object of study is taken from among the works of the Canadian composer (of Czech origin) Oskar Morawetz. The point is not to deny that music can be legitimately associated with a given place but rather to examine how these complex, problematic relationships are created and how they evolve and/or dissolve over time.","PeriodicalId":224798,"journal":{"name":"Canadian University Music Review","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127008802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Karol Szymanowski and Richard Strauss: Of Diverging Epiphanies","authors":"Paul Cadrin","doi":"10.7202/1014581AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1014581AR","url":null,"abstract":"According to the philosopher Charles Taylor, since the beginning of the nineteenth century, with the advent of Romanticism, the work of art is defined by its epiphanic character. It is a manifestation of something of the highest moral or spiritual significance; this manifestation is not merely subjective, in which case it would be inaccessible to scholarly inquiry, but it has an objective character. The Third Symphony, op. 27, by Karol Szymanowski is analyzed in the light of Taylor's concept. The Deutsche Motette, op. 62, by Richard Strauss, which is based on a text similar to the one used by Szymanowski, serves as a foil to buttress the findings.","PeriodicalId":224798,"journal":{"name":"Canadian University Music Review","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127055554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Présence wagnérienne dans le film Invincible (2001) de Werner Herzog","authors":"Audrée Descheneaux","doi":"10.7202/1014670AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1014670AR","url":null,"abstract":"Dans son film Invincible (2001), le realisateur allemand Werner Herzog met en scene la legende de Zishe Breibart, un Juif dote d’une force surhumaine. La theâtralite des images filmees par Herzog et la musique originale du film composee par Hans Zimmer concourent, selon l’auteure, a accentuer la dimension heroique du personnage et a evoquer l’opera wagnerien. Apres avoir mis en parallele les procedes de composition de la musique du film et de l’ecriture postromantique, l’article propose une analyse comparative entre la musique et les images pour demontrer comment la musique du film sert de support privilegie au mythe wagnerien. L’article s’attarde enfin aux repercussions du subterfuge mis en scene par Herzog, qui consiste a faire d’un Juif un heros national a l’aube du nazisme.","PeriodicalId":224798,"journal":{"name":"Canadian University Music Review","volume":"137 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124293693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What News on the Rialto? Fundraising and Publicity for Operas in Seventeenth-Century Venice","authors":"Sandy Thorburn","doi":"10.7202/1014523AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1014523AR","url":null,"abstract":"Commercial operas of seventeenth-century Venice, the earliest public operas, are generally described as rigorously literary from 1637-1660. Various tools, including sets, machines, and musical forms helped audiences from various classes and places understand this Venetian Carnevale entertainment. The goal—to create a commercial entertainment industry that reflected and highlighted the wonders of Venice—was identified early in the history of Venetian commercial opera. This paper seeks to define the extent to which nascent commercial enterprises like newspapers, the mail, publishing, and advertising defined the content and nature of these early operatic works.","PeriodicalId":224798,"journal":{"name":"Canadian University Music Review","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129662671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La technique 5–6 comme modèle descriptif d’un aspect de l’élaboration du vocabulaire chromatique","authors":"Paulin Daigle","doi":"10.7202/1014520AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1014520AR","url":null,"abstract":"L’article propose un modele theorique pour la comprehension des repertoires romantique et postromantique : celui de la syncope consonante 5–6. Ce modele se defend a la lumiere, d’une part, des relations de fondamentales de tierce et, d’autre part, de l’elaboration du vocabulaire chromatique que ces repertoires comportent. Les exemples sont puises aux œuvres de Debussy, Faure, Liszt, Schoenberg, Richard Strauss et Wolf, parce qu’elles presentent une « idee de base » decrite par la technique 5–6, qui subit plusieurs transformations. De telles œuvres contribuent a affaiblir l’harmonie fonctionnelle et, surtout, a mettre en valeur l’accord de sixte ajoutee dans la fonction de tonique.","PeriodicalId":224798,"journal":{"name":"Canadian University Music Review","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124746663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}