SAH Commons | Kathryn Laity | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/katelaity/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Kathryn Laity is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:31:12 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 80fb5ce0a0c19bae826157dc8a99fabd Vivien Jiaqian Zhu started the topic CFP 2026 MLA Convention in the forum Music https://hcommons.org/groups/music/forum/topic/cfp-2026-mla-convention-16/ Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:48:37 -0500 Dear All,

 

I’m pleased to share with you the Call for Paper for the Working Group/Seminar session for the upcoming MLA Convention in Toronto. See https://mla.confex.com/mla/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Paper29934.html.

 

Best wishes,

Vivien Jiaqian Zhu

]]> 0 7a78841f86eb65bc16a639617ad1b93e Nick Posegay deposited From the Battlefield of Books: Essays Celebrating 50 Years of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902155/ Sun, 20 Oct 2024 03:00:49 -0400 This collection of essays celebrates 50 years since the founding of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University Library. Three generations of scholars contributed their research and memories from their time at the GRU, stretching back to 1974. Their work comprises 18 articles on medieval Jewish History, Hebrew and Arabic…[Read more]

]]> 0 9e9c886d88264e5f56c08009e9edba9e Nick Posegay deposited The Illustrated Cairo Genizah in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900712/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 03:00:56 -0400 Almost one thousand years ago, the Jews of Old Cairo began to place their worn-out books and scrolls into a hidden storage room – a genizah – of their synagogue. Over the years, they added all sorts of writings to the pile, sacred and secular texts alike. When the chamber was emptied at the end of the 19th century, it held hundreds of tho…[Read more]

]]> 0 e66c645b49b99ca26a968b8b3eea4b5d Joel Edelman deposited On the Origin of Music; A Convergence of Theories in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1899092/ Wed, 18 Sep 2024 03:00:53 -0400 Much of today’s research into the nature of musical pleasure can be divided into two distinct areas – the study of the overtone spectra of musical consonance and the study of human physiological responses to musical sounds. The former is largely focused on adult participatory responses and the latter on the detection of biochemical activity.…[Read more]

]]> 0 d433dec0d3fda1163d4011033ebccbf0 Aleksandra Fostikov deposited Metoh manastira Konče kroz prizmu povelje cara Uroša i Končanskog praktika – prilog ubikaciji poseda in the group Late Medieval History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897886/ Wed, 04 Sep 2024 03:01:17 -0400 Metoh manastira Konče nalazio se u dolini Krive Lakavice, u neposrednoj okolini samog manastira posvećenog Svetom Stefanu. Podatke o metohu donose svega dva dokumenta. Prvi je povelja cara Uroša, kojom potvrđuje dar velikog vojvode Nikole Stanjevića Hilandaru iz 1366. godine, a u kojoj se poimenice navodi 14 sela. Končanski praktik, to jest popis…[Read more]

]]> 0 bd2829f55def18fd3bc7e00f469c0c1d Aleksandra Fostikov deposited Метох манастира Конче кроз призму повеље цара Уроша и Кончанског практика – прилог убикацији поседа in the group Late Medieval History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897884/ Wed, 04 Sep 2024 03:01:11 -0400 Метох манaстира Конче налазио се у долини Криве Лакавице, у непосредној околини самог манастира посвећеног Светом Стефану. Податке о метоху доносе свега два документа. Први је повеља цара Уроша, којом потврђује дар великог војводе
Николе Стањевића Хиландару из 1366. године, а у којој се поименице наводи 14 села. Кончански практик, то јест п…[Read more]

]]> 0 cccb65ee978b8dc40aa6313c76b0ec3a Joel Edelman deposited On the Origin of Music; A Mathematician's Perspective in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896377/ Fri, 16 Aug 2024 03:01:03 -0400 Recent studies of consonance combined with related neurological studies of musical pleasure both point to the prenatal exposure to the human voice as the origin of our affinity for harmonics sounds. The response of a neonate to the maternal voice is compared to the adult response to music, and the physical components of tonal sounds provide an…[Read more]

]]> 0 1d665c4cd1aced1fadab66623df55066 Lloyd Graham deposited False friends among the disease-demons? On the Egyptian nsy/nsyt and Latin/Slavic nessia/nežit in the group Late Medieval History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895883/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:00:25 -0400 In ancient Egyptian medicine, the most common disease-causing demon is called nsy or nsyt. These names are phonetically close to those of a leading disease-causing demonic agent in medieval and early modern Europe, called nessia in Latin and nežit in Slavic languages. The demons of both regions were believed to invade the patient’s body to ca…[Read more]

]]> 0 2320cf2b082480ddf886dbe90c0a5b48 Evina Stein(ova) deposited Freising (Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project) in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895615/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 03:00:03 -0400 This article was prepared for the Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project in 2016. It surveys the development of Carolingian minuscule, a Latin script used in the earlier Middle Ages, at Freising in Bavaria. The article provides an overview of manuscripts copied, corrected, or annotated in Carolingian minuscule at Freising and summarises the…[Read more]

]]> 0 dccdb42b5fd8871ca89f36e72867c8d2 Nick Posegay deposited Five Qur’anic Papyri from the Michaelides Collection at the Cambridge University Library in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891764/ Mon, 15 Jul 2024 03:00:11 -0400 The Michaelides manuscript collection at the Cambridge University Library contains approximately 700 papyrus fragments collected by George Michaelides in Egypt in the middle of the twentieth century. While a preliminary handlist exists for this collection, most of the papyri have not been fully described. Among them are five Qur’anic papyri that h…[Read more]

]]> 0 b8b1b44f374c9fc3aed5e21ae38c8d09 Nick Posegay deposited Five Qur’anic Papyri from the Michaelides Collection at the Cambridge University Library in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891763/ Mon, 15 Jul 2024 03:00:10 -0400 The Michaelides manuscript collection at the Cambridge University Library contains approximately 700 papyrus fragments collected by George Michaelides in Egypt in the middle of the twentieth century. While a preliminary handlist exists for this collection, most of the papyri have not been fully described. Among them are five Qur’anic papyri that h…[Read more]

]]> 0 d021c1a72c3d8c14b86aa5e394a9d0b1 Matthew Firth deposited What’s in a Name? Tracing the Origins of Alfred’s ‘the Great’ in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889289/ Sat, 15 Jun 2024 03:00:27 -0400 King Alfred (r. 871–99) is the only native-born English ruler to have gained the byname ‘the Great’. This was not a contemporary sobriquet, but is often considered to have been bestowed in the Elizabethan era by Reformation scholars who increasingly cast Alfred in the role of the founder of the English nation. The acknowledged exception is a refer…[Read more]

]]> 0 8f25905d78a6ae3d72c9ec662e0d9999 Nick Posegay deposited An Early Arabic Translation of Exodus 15 from a Palestinian Melkite Psalter in the Cairo Genizah in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888911/ Tue, 11 Jun 2024 03:00:18 -0400 This article presents an Arabic translation of Exodus 15 from the Cairo Genizah, preserved in two fragments of a Christian psalter (MSS CUL T-S NS 305.198 and T-S NS 305.210). The style of the psalter’s Arabic script suggests that it was copied by a well-trained scribe in the late 9th or early 10th century. Such a date makes it the oldest…[Read more]

]]> 0 8e66d51a609437f913892778b9f6501c James Robert Burns started the topic New Group: History of Slavery and Unfreedom in the discussion Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/groups/early-medieval/forum/topic/new-group-history-of-slavery-and-unfreedom-3/ Sat, 01 Jun 2024 22:07:02 -0400 Welcome to the ‘History of Slavery and Unfreedom’

So far as I am aware, this is the first and only Humanities Commons group dedicated to the study of slavery.*

The past decade has seen a large number of publications that address slavery in a range of historical societies (e.g., The Cambridge World History; The Palgrave Handbook; On Human…[Read more]

]]> 0 1708fd67f133506905bc78ac6a0ee7ab James Robert Burns deposited ‘Slaves’ and ‘Slave Owners’ or ‘Enslaved People’ and ‘Enslavers’? in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887766/ Sat, 01 Jun 2024 03:00:19 -0400 Studies of slavery increasingly refer to ‘enslaved people’ rather than ‘slaves’, and, to a lesser extent, to ‘enslavers’ rather than ‘slave owners’. This trend began with scholarship in the United States on plantation slavery but has spread to other academic publications. Yet ‘slave’ continues to be widely used, indicating not everyone is aware o…[Read more]

]]> 0 938175129d94ad1b540b6584e11f34ee Nick Posegay deposited Eleven Colophons by Ten Printers from Seven Cities in the Cairo Genizah in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886341/ Thu, 16 May 2024 03:00:45 -0400 While the Cairo Genizah is mainly known as a repository of medieval manuscripts, modern Genizah collections also contain thousands of folios from texts printed with moveable type between 1500 and 1900. Most of these imprints come from Europe, but almost all of them reached the Cairene Jewish community at some point before 1897. They are also among…[Read more]

]]> 0 c3b66849dde3b35c4b74490db101001b Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Sonic atmospheres in Mauritian devotional Islam: Sensing transoceanic connections in a Creole society in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884700/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:31:54 -0400 Movement constitutes transoceanic spaces such as the Indian Ocean world. Sonic practices as atmospheres make such multilayered movements and connections palpable. The recitation of naʻt among Mauritian Muslims is an example of how sound and sonic practices can provide somatic evidence for transoceanic links in the Indian Ocean world. It is argued…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd7198dab9e3df44922471ef354e76a9 Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Atmospheres: The multisensoriality of spatially extended emotions in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884697/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:31:39 -0400 In this essay, I introduce an analytic of atmosphere as a way to bridge the gap between the phenomenology of the felt-body and the anthropology of the senses. This analytic of atmospheres as multisensoriality partially aligns with, but also differs from other anthropological approaches to multisensoriality or the anthropology of the senses.…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd86ffaca9f3dd047290d7b65ff6f028 Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Sound, Voice, and the Felt Body in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884661/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:28:14 -0400 As the meeting ground of language, the body, and subjectivity, voice has become a key con- cept in the humanities and social sciences. Nevertheless, analyses of the voice that do justice to all these three dimensions are rare. This also applies to linguistic anthropological work on the voice, whose main strength is investigating the interplay of…[Read more]

]]> 0 116ff10cd548994627fd53817cbe8df2 Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Sonic religion: The analysis of atmospheric half-things in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884658/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:27:54 -0400 The chapter discusses work on sonic religion and the challenges it has encountered in coming to terms with sonic materiality. The study of material religion has so far been predominantly focused on objects, things, and images. The sonic, however, cannot be grasped by approaches suited to the latter phenomena. It is argued that its special kind of…[Read more]

]]> 0 3bfb2f941f3b6dffd31463153e1b783a Claus Tieber deposited Screenwriting sound and music: Towards a new field of study in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882924/ Fri, 12 Apr 2024 03:01:58 -0400 Extensive research in film and media studies on film music and sound has delved into various aspects of their role in cinema, recognizing their significance. However, a crucial element in film production – the screenplay – has often been overlooked in the exploration of sound and music integration. Concurrently, studies on screenwriting have dis…[Read more]

]]> 0 976b935053c1cae6844cd69ad8d838d3 Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Estos infelices comuneros: Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y las Comunidades de Castilla in the group Late Medieval History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1880850/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 03:00:33 -0400 La obra de Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo representa una de las fuentes más interesantes del período comprendido entre finales del siglo XV y las primeras décadas del XVI. El investigador puede encontrar en ella información diversa gracias al conocimiento directo que su autor tenía de los personajes y de los ambientes cortesanos de la última fase d…[Read more]

]]> 0 876957483811364c1a6017b6f4420f1c Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited La poesía de protesta medieval a través del cine de Hollywood, de los Monty Python y de la serie Juego de Tronos in the group Late Medieval History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1880566/ Mon, 25 Mar 2024 03:00:57 -0400 El presente trabajo articula varias reflexiones sobre la poesía de protesta en la Castilla medieval y su representación en la pequeña y en la gran pantalla a través de tres referencias audiovisuales: un filme clásico del cine histórico de Hollywood, ‘El valle de las espadas’ ( ‘The Castillian’, 1963); uno de los grandes éxitos humoríst…[Read more]

]]> 0 dc314049bc8d0b62b1b2a731882e91bf Paulino Capdepon deposited CONMEMORACIONES DEL PRIMER CENTENARIO DE LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN EN MADRID (1927): LA ACTIVIDAD ORQUESTAL in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1875795/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:02:41 -0500 In 1927, Madrid experienced a great musical activity to celebrate the first anniversary of Beethoven’s death. This chapter focuses on the activities organized by orchestras, societies, associations, etc., and their reflection in the press of that time. Critics from the main Madrid newspapers such as Adolfo Salazar, Juan José Mantecón, Víctor Es…[Read more]

]]> 0 4c8203a222ffd963d0abeb97edb6ef81 Paulino Capdepon deposited EL ESTRENO DE LA NOVENA SINFONÍA EN RE MENOR OPUS 125 DE BEETHOVEN EN ESPAÑA (1882): HISTORIA Y RECEPCIÓN in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1875791/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:01:37 -0500 The premiere in 1882 of the Ninth Symphony by the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) at the Teatro Principal in Madrid marked a significant historical and musical milestone for the history of Spanish symphonic music. Until then, the reception of the great German composer in Spain had been limited since the 1840s to individual…[Read more]

]]> 0 4767a2a36f34b34d401078bf718c8326 Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited El «Libro de los pensamientos variables» como ejemplo de utopía y disidencia en el siglo XV in the group Late Medieval History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1871930/ Mon, 22 Jan 2024 03:00:33 -0500 El artículo analiza una curiosa obra titulada «Libro de los pensamientos variables», mezcla de prosa y verso y compuesta entre 1488 y 1492, que se conserva en un solo manuscrito de la Biblioteca Nacional de España (MSS/6442). Tras resumirse su contenido y sus principales inf luencias literarias, se intenta identificar a su posible autor como el…[Read more]

]]> 0 e21fabfff120a4a3968d7a68f1733993 Tiago Queimada e Silva deposited Lectio praecursoria: The Good Noblemen Who Conquered the Kingdom: Islam, Historiography, and Aristocratic Legitimation in Late-Medieval Portugal in the group Late Medieval History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868515/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:00:39 -0500 This text consists of the ‘lectio praecursoria’ given at the defense of my doctoral dissertation “The Good Noblemen Who Conquered the Kingdom: Islam, Historiography, and Aristocratic Legitimation in Late-Medieval Portugal”. This dissertation deals with aristocratic historiography and political legitimation in late-medieval Portugal (late…[Read more]

]]> 0 39dc7a8839d2eb1212f74f73215e7019 Manuel Kamenzin deposited Die Tode der römisch-deutschen Könige und Kaiser (1150-1349) in the group Late Medieval History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1864683/ Wed, 15 Nov 2023 03:07:02 -0500 Illnesses, murders, accidents, one battle death and one suicide – a wide variety of deaths were attributed to the Holy Roman kings and emperors of the 12th to 14th centuries. This book is dedicated to the contemporary tradition of the deaths of rulers in the ‘Staufer period’, the ‘interregnum’ and the first half of the 14th century from a…[Read more]

]]> 0 c769bbcca2cdb4f5b5ab1939d35a9b9e Evina Stein(ova) deposited Parallel Glosses, Shared Glosses, and Gloss Clustering: Can Network-Based Approach Help Us to Understand Organic Corpora of Glosses? in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1864357/ Mon, 13 Nov 2023 03:00:45 -0500 Glossing was an important element of medieval western manuscript culture. However, glosses are notoriously difficult to analyze because of their triviality, fluid nature, heterogeneity of origin, complex transmission histories, and anonymity. Traditional scholarly approaches such as close reading and the genealogical method often do not produce…[Read more]

]]> 0 7cd0642fe619065830307395b0f9b6c8 Marco Heiles deposited Verschwörungserzählungen im Spätmittelalter und heute. Seminarprogramm und Literaturliste in the group Late Medieval History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1863978/ Thu, 09 Nov 2023 03:00:06 -0500 Seminarprogramm und Literaturliste der Veranstaltung:

Verschwörungserzählungen im Spätmittelalter und heute

Master Hauptseminar
Institut für Germanistische und Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft
RWTH Aachen University
Marco Heiles

]]> 0 7c8c657a39d703b753c1ae2849503746 Eric Dienstfrey deposited "Introduction" from Making Stereo Fit: The History of a Disquieting Film Technology in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1863577/ Sat, 04 Nov 2023 03:00:13 -0400 Surround sound is often mistaken as a relatively new phenomenon in cinemas, one that emerged in the 1970s with the arrival of Dolby. Making Stereo Fit reveals that, in fact, filmmakers have been creating stereo and surround-sound effects for nearly a century, since the advent of talking pictures, and argues that their endurance owes primarily to…[Read more]

]]> 0 a9358875e80710245073548c4944439b Cristian Martinez Vega created the doc Database Report 2022 - International Society for Chilean Music (SIMUC) in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1862284/ Sat, 21 Oct 2023 03:55:20 -0400 0 86c2412af00022f4d9bf845c1188c2da Nelson Goering deposited Atlakviða, reversal, and theories of Germanic alliterative metre in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861918/ Tue, 17 Oct 2023 03:00:02 -0400 The Norse poem Atlakviða shows an irregular metre which is difficult to classify. This makes it a useful test case for comparing the explanatory abilities of two major theoretical frameworks of Germanic alliterative verse: the positional theory and the word-foot theory. I argue that the word-foot theory is more successful, especially in deriving…[Read more]

]]> 0 7ecfb37fc756b40385dbc0acca49a77e Eddie Meehan deposited The importance of salvation in Carolingian royal advice literature in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1858678/ Sat, 16 Sep 2023 01:17:57 -0400 The trend of Carolingian royal advice literature, Fürstenspiegel, or specula principum offers advice to kings on how to rule well and examples of ruling poorly. Interpretations of these texts have often focused on traditional ideas of the Carolingian reforms, for example the focus on classical models of rule in Sedulius Scottus’ De rectoribus ch…[Read more]

]]> 0 c0edb8d487b1b857c8d1a016c7d9907c Bernd Brabec deposited Auditive Wissenskulturen: Wissen, Macht und die Welt der Klänge in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856724/ Mon, 28 Aug 2023 01:11:41 -0400 In der Einleitung zum Sammelband Auditive Wissenskulturen – Das Wissen klanglicher Praxis stellen die Autoren zuerst die Diskrepanzen der jeweiligen Beziehungen des Visuellen und des Auditiven zu Wissen anhand einiger Beispiele vor. Sie exemplifzieren auch, wie sowohl auditive Praxis als auch die Hervorbringung und Vermittlung von Wissen in s…[Read more]

]]> 0 4474f46bc66f74e3b9303c66fea4c9aa Thijs Porck deposited “I can read Hollandsch very fairly. The Correspondence between James Murray (1837-1915) and Pieter Jacob Cosijn (1840-1899) in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856285/ Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:11:30 -0400 Thijs Porck, “I can read Hollandsch very fairly. The Correspondence between James Murray (1837-1915) and Pieter Jacob Cosijn (1840-1899)”, in Language Use, Usage Guides, and Linguistic Norms, ed. Luisella Caon, Marion Elenbaas & Janet Grijzenhout (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021), 107-129.

]]> 0 750f4e7570af97ea097e08e66e803e73 Alaric Hall deposited Leeds Studies in English: A History in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856258/ Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:08:29 -0400 Despite the epistemological importance of the scholarly journal, few thorough histories of individual academic journals have been written, especially of journals in the arts and humanities. This article uses both archival material and oral histories to construct a multifaceted history of Leeds Studies in English (LSE) from the beginning of its…[Read more]

]]> 0 4e8eeb32e1cf0632d093f7eaa09243e1 Christian Cooijmans deposited Hostile in Tent: Reconsidering the Roles of Viking Encampment across the Frankish Realm in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1855714/ Fri, 18 Aug 2023 01:10:01 -0400 When considering the establishment of overseas viking encampments, some of the most detailed and vivid contemporary descriptions of this activity originate from the Frankish realm, a region which nevertheless remains precariously positioned in wider comparative investigations of the viking world. To address this imbalance, this chapter assembles…[Read more]

]]> 0 91b0c07286d318b682d4098232ccb286 Kordula Wolf deposited Tra terra e mare – una premessa in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1853858/ Fri, 04 Aug 2023 02:29:22 -0400 This preface introduces in the main issues of the volume.

]]> 0 692f3400ca07f86ba8c4a2f56686f8dc Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Even a Compensation Culture has its Limits: Arbitrating Homicide in Fifteenth-Century England.” in the group Late Medieval History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1853079/ Sat, 29 Jul 2023 02:24:10 -0400 Historians have long argued that arbitration was the preferred means of
resolution for most disputes in later medieval England; but does this apply
also to the settlement of homicides? Despite the strenuous efforts of the
English legal system after the Norman Conquest to force homicides through
the royal courts, historians have argued that…[Read more]

]]> 0 95e6d334c39ce293c24481078764c521 Vicky Brewster deposited Lesbian Lovers and Forbidden Caves: Sapphic Survival Horror in Caitlin Starling's The Luminous Dead in the group Speculative and Science Fiction https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852528/ Sun, 23 Jul 2023 02:24:37 -0400 In 1894, Lord Alfred Douglas referred to homosexuality as “the love that dare not speak its name”, a phrase that describes the unmentionable nature of homosexuality in a period of time when sodomy was illegal. Even in the 21st century, there continues to be something unspeakable and forbidden about homosexuality. This paper equates the uns…[Read more]

]]> 0 44ed83c7c25f374a237bc134b88ba0e8 Eric Dienstfrey deposited Synch Holes and Patchwork in Early Feature-Film Scores in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852310/ Thu, 20 Jul 2023 02:25:10 -0400 The aesthetics of early feature-film scores were shaped by narrational problems introduced by multi-reel features and their longer durations. Using The Patchwork Girl of Oz, I show how stylistic devices like silences and musical pun- ctuation were used to address the coherence and pacing of multi-reel storytelling.

]]> 0 f1463f2949ddd5c12d0ec8a428d29b0f Eric Dienstfrey deposited Tape Recording Hollywood: The Inaudibility of New Film Sound Technology in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852307/ Thu, 20 Jul 2023 02:24:57 -0400 This article details the historical factors that shaped Hollywood’s adoption of magnetic recording during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It draws upon economic theories of technological change, archival correspondence, technical records, analyses of postproduction workflows, and delineations of the structural constraints that limited how the f…[Read more]

]]> 0 915f3633dbc3d07b8a40b0f50f0abd26 Eric Dienstfrey deposited Monocentrism, or Soundtracks in Space in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852304/ Thu, 20 Jul 2023 02:24:42 -0400 This chapter investigates how the introduction of stereo complicated Hollywood’s vococentric practices. It also reveals how sound technicians developed mixing techniques that preserved the salience of dialogue in multi-channel soundscapes. The author refers to such techniques as monocentrism and illustrates monocentric norms by analyzing the c…[Read more]

]]> 0 8aab43c04ad59e42c274bb0993ec8ff5 Joel Edelman deposited A Coherent Model of Musical Consonance in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852217/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 02:24:45 -0400 Without fail a study in any depth of our fondness for music must eventually address the issue of consonance and dissonance. Past approaches to this issue have been bounded by a limited knowledge base and, further, marred by logical flaws, occasional hand waving, and the myopia of reductionism. Despite the explosion of progress in the last few…[Read more]

]]> 0 eaec9d0d9e5e74ff697a28daa4884424 Adrian Curtin started the topic CfP for online symposium: The Experimental Orchestra (December 13, 2023) in the discussion Music https://hcommons.org/groups/music/forum/topic/cfp-for-online-symposium-the-experimental-orchestra-december-13-2023/ Tue, 18 Jul 2023 12:22:31 -0400 Event date: December 13, 2023

Submission deadline: September 1, 2023

Orchestras around the world are conducting experiments related to performance, to the constitution of the orchestra, and to its operation. Professional classical music ensembles, like many other organisations and institutions in the cultural sector, face an existential…[Read more]

]]> 0 6c593ae6178f5cd12eef935db83e535e Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Propaganda ideológica pro-Trastámara en el «Cancionero de Baena» in the group Late Medieval History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1851985/ Mon, 17 Jul 2023 02:28:52 -0400 De entre las muchas y generosas lecciones que el maestro don Julio Valdeón ha brindado al medievalismo hispánico destacaremos aquella que fundamentará las páginas siguientes: la importancia de la propaganda ideológica favorable a la dinastía Trastámara durante la guerra civil castellana entre los años 1366 y 1371. Este conflicto fratric…[Read more]

]]> 0 671fcca49ea77daa3871c75bfc448d1e Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Juan Álvarez Gato en la villa y corte literaria del Madrid tardomedieval in the group Late Medieval History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1851981/ Mon, 17 Jul 2023 02:28:16 -0400 Aún en la actualidad, cinco siglos más tarde de que fuese escrito, todavía impresiona la honrada confesión con la que Juan Álvarez Gato cerraba su cancionero particular, rematando los folios en los que había recopilado todo su acervo lírico con una singular confidencia poética. A través de ella, el hombre maduro y el poeta veterano renegaba…[Read more]

]]> 0 8d470548bf0cc5891b335e94d2b83cb7 Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Francisco Hernández Coronel, poeta converso del «Cancionero general» in the group Late Medieval History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1851976/ Mon, 17 Jul 2023 02:27:38 -0400 Quizá Don Eloy sea bastante ajeno a la admiración que despertaba entre los jóvenes estudiantes, allá por los años finales de la pasada centuria, uno de sus trabajos menores, entendiendo ‘menor’ no por lo que se refiere a su valía (que en absoluto es nimia), sino sólo para separarlo, en cuanto a extensión y objetivos, de su scripta maiora. Nos…[Read more]

]]> 0 979419f57dffe2be04e0d1384dbebb26 Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Una posible corte literaria del siglo XV: la de Beltrán de la Cueva, Duque de Alburquerque in the group Late Medieval History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1851972/ Mon, 17 Jul 2023 02:27:01 -0400 En uno de sus breves pero densos artículos, donde su siempre certera pluma se afilaba hasta el punto de transformarse con harta frecuencia en daga hiriente, Miguel de Unamuno realizaba una ácida declaración en contra de lo que él denominaba como «la plaga del literatismo», centrando sus críticas en las reuniones de literatos, bien fuese median…[Read more]

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