Word: musicologist
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...proper opero-tragic suicide. "He doesn't want anything to do with that Valhalla tradition celebrating tragedy, pain and death," says Teodori. "And neither do I." It's one of the opera's more effective conceits, and Nieve's arias shine with what one applauding critic called "a true musicologist's reflection on the themes of Bizet, Bellini and Puccini...
Almost every revived American folk-music form was once recorded for the Library of Congress by musicologist Alan Lomax. He taped Sacred Harp in 1942 and '59. Unlike other finds such as Leadbelly, it failed to spark during the 1960s folk revival, but musicologists were infected. Now the form had imitable LPs and an academic beachhead...
...leadership transition comes as Harvard expands its African Studies faculty, with African drama expert Biodun Jeyifo and musicologist V. Kofi Agawu—along with Olupona—arriving in Cambridge earlier this fall. And an associate professor of African Studies, Caroline Elkins, raised the faculty’s profile even further last year when she won a Pulitzer Prize for her study of late colonial Kenya...
Students justify the trips by emphasizing the importance of direct interaction. Kim explains, “Travel is an essential part of what art historians do. Seeing an object in person is just as important to an art historian as attending a concert is to a musicologist.” Lest students rush to sign up for HAA and ESP courses, Kim cautions, “Travel can also be hard work. The late Harvard professor John Shearman used to tell his students that when in Rome they should see five churches before breakfast...
...exquisite Madonnas includes Botticelli's Madonna Adoring Her Child, from Edinburgh's National Gallery of Scotland, rediscovered only in 1998 and on show for the first time in Italy. Filippino's Madonna with Child and Angels, owned by a Florentine bank, is widely reproduced but rarely seen. A Canadian musicologist recently transcribed and recorded the a cappella music the angels are singing from a scroll in their hands, so visitors to the exhibition can hear the masterpiece as well as see it. As it happens, Filippino's perfectly rendered score was one of the most popular songs of the 15th...