Musical performance in context : a festschrift in celebration of doctoral education at the Sibelius Academy

Abstract

Musical Performance in Context celebrates the 30th anniversary of the first Doctor of Music graduations in 1990 at the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki. Wide-ranging in its orientation, the book consists of ten essays that elucidate areas and topics with which the DocMus Doctoral School of the Faculty of Classical Music has been engaged over the years. All the essays address, in one way or another, issues of musical performance, covering this concept very widely. The authors are current and former faculty members, or scholars and artists who have co-operated with the Sibelius Academy. Complementing the scholarly essays, two introductions and fi ve reminiscences give background on the early stages of doctoral education at the Sibelius Academy and recall personal experiences over the years.

Scholarly essays : Kari Kurkela: In Search of an Identity Lassi Rajamaa: From Log Doctors to Artistically Oriented Postgraduate Degrees Anne Kauppala: Aino Ackté’s Salome: A Genetic Analysis of Her Creative Process (1906–1907) Tomi Mäkelä: Friedrich Wieck: Musical Education Beside Karl Marx’s “Philistine Mediocrity” and Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Griechenproblem” Matti Huttunen: The Concepts of Musical Form and Expression in Ernst Bloch’s Geist der Utopie (1918/1923) Peter Peitsalo: The Liturgical Music of Oskar Merikanto Revisited in the Context of the 1913 Orders of Worship Lauri Suurpää: An Individual Opposing the Crowd: The Capriccio of Haydn’s String Quartet, Op. 20, No. 2 Juha Ojala: Temporal Excursions in Eight Performances of Schoenberg’s Op. 19, No. 4 Robert S. Hatten: Teaching “Performance and Analysis”: A One-Semester Course at The University of Texas Tuire Kuusi, Ivan Jimenez, and Matthew Schulkind: Revisiting the Effect of Listener and Musical Factors on the Identification of Music from Chord Progressions Mieko Kanno and Sam Hayden: Live Notation Project: NEXUS Giovanni Verrando: Composing the Instruments

Reminiscences from Gustav Djupsjöbacka, Päivi Järviö, Annikka Konttori-Gustafsson, Cecilia Oinas, and Raimo Sariola.