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View article: Organizing Modernity
Organizing Modernity Open
This chapter examines the sociopolitical history of the ‘euharmonic organ’, built by Henry Liston in 1817 for St Andrew’s, the first Presbyterian Church in India. Liston’s unique organ was adapted for performance of church music and common…
View article: Pemigatinib for adults with previously treated, locally advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma with FGFR2 fusions/rearrangements
Pemigatinib for adults with previously treated, locally advanced or metastatic cholangiocarcinoma with FGFR2 fusions/rearrangements Open
Biliary tract cancers are a diverse and aggressive malignancy that carry a poor chance for curative treatment and significant associated mortality. Current first-line treatment only extends median overall survival to roughly 1 year and is …
View article: To Sing the Deeds of Men: Epithet and Identity in Homeric Epic
To Sing the Deeds of Men: Epithet and Identity in Homeric Epic Open
The most distinctive feature of Greek epic poetry, especially of the Iliad and Odyssey attributed to Homer, is its highly developed system of epithets that mark out heroic characters and allowed for improvised oral performance. The questio…
View article: Pitch vs. Timbre
Pitch vs. Timbre Open
Early comparative musicology habitually ignored, even extinguished, timbre in its single-minded focus on pitch. This chapter traces the broader social, cultural, and political consequences of this framework. It surveys how, at the turn of …
View article: Expanding the conversation: new recordings of Italian Baroque and galant repertory
Expanding the conversation: new recordings of Italian Baroque and galant repertory Open
The ubiquitous titans of late 17th- and 18th-century Italian string music—Corelli, Vivaldi, Tartini, Locatelli, Scarlatti, et alia—finally take a back seat in this recent spate of recordings in order to leave room for some of the lesser-kn…
View article: Emancipate the Quartertone: The Call to Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Music Theory
Emancipate the Quartertone: The Call to Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Music Theory Open
In 1852, the theorist Johanna Kinkel urged musicians to “emancipate the quartertone [for] a new world of sound!” Her call to arms was quickly countered by Wolfgang Heinrich Riehl, who denigrated such “enharmonic” sounds as “effeminate” in …