http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/ucdmusic_oapdeposits/rss Recent eScholarship items from Open Access Policy Deposits Wed, 24 Jun 2026 11:46:41 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/93x975cm Combining historical, organological, ethnographic, and musical analysis, this article explores the relationship between three musical bows—the Angolan hungu and mbulumbumba and the Brazilian berimbau—in the context of the South Atlantic African diaspora. Our intervention crisscrosses scholarly debates about the survival and adaptation of African musical bows in Brazil and capoeiristas’ discourses about the Angolan origins of capoeira and the berimbau. We argue for a direct connection between the hungu and berimbau, calling into question any such link to the mbulumbumba, one first posited by Gerhard Kubik in the 1970s and reasserted by subsequent scholars. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/93x975cm Thu, 30 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Diaz, Juan Diego Assunção, Matthias Röhrig Beyer, Gregory https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4xx3f6sn This music score was submitted for the Kaleidoscope 2020 Call for Scores, an open access collaboration with the UCLA Music Library. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4xx3f6sn Thu, 16 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Wald, Sarah https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4mz6b1wk This music score was submitted for the Kaleidoscope 2020 Call for Scores, an open access collaboration with the UCLA Music Library. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4mz6b1wk Thu, 16 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Wald, Sarah https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1zw5c8ck This music score was submitted for the Kaleidoscope 2020 Call for Scores, an open access collaboration with the UCLA Music Library. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1zw5c8ck Thu, 16 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Baldini, Christian https://escholarship.org/uc/item/13b356fp This music score was submitted for the Kaleidoscope 2020 Call for Scores, an open access collaboration with the UCLA Music Library. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/13b356fp Thu, 16 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Wald, Sarah https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8xk3c41f This music score was submitted for the Kaleidoscope 2020 Call for Scores, an open access collaboration with the UCLA Music Library. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8xk3c41f Wed, 15 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Baldini, Christian https://escholarship.org/uc/item/23g476nv This essay considers the hotly debated U.S. border and its relationship to music historiography vis-à-vis the unconventional career of Gilbert Chase (1906-92), the first U.S. musicologist to take seriously the music of the Spanish-speaking world. I draw on his papers, housed at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, to suggest that little-known facts of Chase’s scholarly perspectives can give us food for thought in the fraught present. Central here are two visions of “American music,” both rooted in politics. One, the concept of “Greater America,” dates from the 1920s through World War II and informed Chase’s scholarly vision early on. Another vision, one that effectively reinforced U.S. superpower status, grew out of the Cold War. Paradoxically, it is Greater America, which Chase abruptly abandoned—as did U.S. society at large—that holds out the greatest promise today. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/23g476nv Thu, 5 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Hess, Carol A. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8r5552cq Front Matter https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8r5552cq Fri, 13 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Lee, Sarah https://escholarship.org/uc/item/66n3j3g8 Abstract This article discusses how those who experience spirit possession within Bahian Candomblé religion listen to ritual music outside of the ceremonial context. It proposes a theory of aesthetics based on bodily sensations and mythological imagination that initiated dancers develop through experience and socialization. This embodied aesthetics is then linked to discourses of black empowerment, processes of self- fashioning, and issues of secrecy and representation of Candomblé in Bahia https://escholarship.org/uc/item/66n3j3g8 Tue, 16 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Meneses, Juan Diego Diaz https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3r56x546 Between repetition and variation: a musical performance of malícia in capoeira https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3r56x546 Tue, 16 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Diaz, Juan Diego https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3k8848kb Timelines are well known temporal organizers in various types of African diasporic groove-based musics. But what happens when they are deliberately cut, rotated, or staggered? This article explores some compositional techniques used by Orkestra Rumpilezz, a big band from Bahia, Brazil, that combines jazz with Afro-Bahian carnival and sacred music and that bases its compositions on traditional and modified timelines. The paper offers metric interpretations of the orchestra’s timeline experimentations and relates them to their stated goal to “dignify and demonstrate the high level of rhythmic complexity of Afro-Bahian music.” The main demonstration is that the composer’s experimentations with timelines are a technique to increase rhythmic complexity and to elevate the status of Afro-Bahian music. Additionally, I propose a way to expand existing timeline models to account for more subtle and implicit relationships of timeline alignment found in Brazil. The main goal is to discover... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3k8848kb Tue, 16 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Diaz, JD https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5vn695zz Interdisciplinarity and Musical Exceptionalism https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5vn695zz Tue, 15 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Spiller, Henry https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6252411r Aspects of Clerical Patronage and Musical Migration in the Renaissance https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6252411r Thu, 21 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Reynolds, Christopher https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8nt9v1jp This study of Adrian Willaert’s motet, Videns Dominus flentes sorores Lazari, demonstrates how the construction and distribution of motives indicate a particular reading of the text, the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. While this reading has important elements in common with artistic renderings of the story of Jesus resurrecting Lazarus, it also demonstrates the ability of music to express a kind of meaning unavailable to artists. Willaert created a symmetrical structure with the command of Jesus to Lazarus placed in the exact middle of the motet, with events on either side ordered concentrically to represent Lazarus’s return to life. Key events in Willaert’s motet recur in Jacobus Vaet’s Videns Dominus (1562), and Hieronymus Praetorius’s double-choir motet, Videns Dominus flentes sorores Lazari (1599). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8nt9v1jp Tue, 19 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Reynolds, Christopher https://escholarship.org/uc/item/44m9t7p9 This article calls attention to a database devoted to women composers and songwriters and points to a few of the historical issues that this database makes it possible to investigate. The focus is women who composed songs between roughly 1890 and 1930, and who published in the United States, Great Britain, and the British Commonwealth. The database contains more than 15,500 entries of songs and song publications by 1,607 women who wrote in all styles (including classical, popular, and a range of styles in between). The database documents the extraordinary rise and decline of women song composers that occurred in the years before and after the First World War, to identify the leading composers and the most popular poets, and to discuss differences in the careers of American and British women songwriters. Among these was the propensity for American women to self-publish, not only successful women such as Anita Owen and Carrie Jacobs Bond, but also hundreds of amateurs who published... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/44m9t7p9 Tue, 19 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Reynolds, Christopher