#Musicology outside the western cultural sphere.
Another interesting article from the #Bibliolore blog:
https://bibliolore.org/2025/05/17/musicologys-global-expansion/

#music #musiceducation #culture

Musicology’s global expansion

The global expansion of musicology beyond Europe and North America in the latter half of the 20th century was shaped by several key factors. Alongside the structure of each country’s higher e…

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Music education and citizenship in Venezuela

From 2007 to 2017, El Sistema–Venezuela’s national music education system–experienced a remarkable rise, followed by an equally dramatic decline. While it may be tempting to dismi…

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Do you know what RILM (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale) is?

Bibliolore, RILMs blog explains:
https://bibliolore.org/2025/03/07/rilms-unesco-accreditation/

#music #culture #worldmusic #classicalmusic #bibliolore #unesco

RILM’s UNESCO accreditation

Since its founding in the mid-1960s, the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) has advanced a globalist perspective, fostering international networks that have connected scholars …

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The burning of musical instruments in Afghanistan

Sometime during the last weekend of July 2023, previously confiscated musical instruments were collected and publicly burned in the Afghan province of Herāt. The head of the local office of the Min…

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Today the blog #bibliolore presents an interesting article about the American pianist and composer Margaret Rosezarian Harris (1943–2000),
including a recording of her 2. piano concert.

Beautiful music! Very American, in the good sense of the word! :)

https://bibliolore.org/2023/09/15/margaret-rosezarian-harris-conductor-and-broadway-musical-director/

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#womenconductors
#piano
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Margaret Rosezarian Harris: Conductor, composer, musical director

Margaret Rosezarian Harris (1943–2000) was the first Black woman to conduct the orchestras of Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, and 12 other U.S. cities. Harris played solo piano recitals in the U.S. …

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Another interesting article from the blog #bibliolore this time about the Cuban singer Sara Gonzalez.

https://bibliolore.org/2023/09/05/sara-gonzalez-and-the-cuban-nueva-trova-movement/

#cuba #nuevatrova

Sara Gonzalez and the Cuban nueva trova movement

The name Sara González is synonymous with the history of the Cuban nueva trova. The genre differed from the traditional trova mainly because of its political lyrics but some have described nueva tr…

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Another interesting article from the blog Bibliolore, this time about the keyed Zither instrument, the Benju:
https://bibliolore.org/2023/08/01/from-nagoya-to-makran-the-tale-of-the-baluchi-benju-and-noor-bakhsh/

#worldmusic #wilt #bibliolore

From Nagoya to Makran: The tale of the Baluchi benju

The BaluchisSpread out across Pakistan, Iran and Muscat, the Baluchi people are as complex and diverse as the landscapes that they inhabit. Baluchistan, the largest Pakistani province, is home to t…

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Another interesting blog from #bibliolore:
A kind of 'midi' #recording of Edward #Grieg playing the #piano

Today is Griegs 180th birthday!
https://bibliolore.org/2023/06/15/grieg-and-recording/

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Grieg and recording

Edvard Grieg was intensely interested in sound recording, which was in its infancy in his day. His works were first recorded on Edison rolls in 1899 by Alfred Grünfeld. This technique of recording …

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Today is Ligeti's 100th birthday!
The blog #bibliolore has an interesting angle:
https://bibliolore.org/2023/05/28/ligeti-and-africa/

@classicalmusic #modernclassical #ligeti

Ligeti and Africa

György Ligeti freely acknowledged the influence of African music on his work—an influence that is seldom readily obvious, though it can be teased out by analysis. After he listened to recordings of…

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Wagner and Buddhism

Scholars have long known that Wagner had a deep and lasting interest in Buddhism; less known are the specific insights garnered from Buddhism that are manifested in Parsifal. The key to understandi…

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