Musical Performance In Context - A Festschrift in Celebration of Doctoral Education at the Sibelius Academy

Musical Performance in Context celebrates the 30th anniversary of the rst Doctor of Music graduations in 1990 at the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki. Wideranging 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 cooperated with the Sibelius Academy. Complementing the scholarly essays, two introductions and ve reminiscences give background on the early stages of doctoral education at the Sibelius Academy and recall personal experiences over the years. INTRODUCTION In Search of an Identity – Kari Kurkela From Log Doctors to Artistically Oriented Postgraduate Degress – Lassi Rajamaa PART 1 – MUSIC HISTORY AND PERFORMANCE Aino Ackté's Salome: A Genetic Analysis of Her Creative Process (19061907) – Anne Kauppala Friedrich Wieck: Musical Education Beside Karl Marx's ”Philistine Mediocrity” and Friedrich Nietzsches's ”Griechenproblem” – Tomi Mäkelä The Concepts of Musical Form and Expression in Ernst Bloch's Geist der Utopie (1918/1923) – Matti Huttunen The Liturgical Music of Oskar Merikanto Revisited in the Context of the 1913 Orders of Worship – Peter Peitsalo PART 2 – MUSICAL WORKS: ANALYSIS, PERFORMANCE, PEDAGOGY An Individual Opposing the Crowd: The Capriccio of Haydn's String Quartet, Op. 20, No. 2 – Lauri Suurpää Temporal Excursions in Eight Performances of Schoenberg's Op. 19, No. 4 – Juha Ojala Teaching ”Perfomance and Analysis”: A OneSemester Course at The University of Texas – Robert S. Hatten PART 3 – GENERATIONS AND PERCEPTION OF MUSIC AND ITS PERFORMANCE Revisiting the Effect of Listener and Musical Factors on the Identification of Music from Chord Progressions – Tuire Kuusi, Ivan Jimenez, and Matthew Schulkind Live Notation Project: NEXUS – Mieko Kanno and Sam Hayden Composing the Instruments – Giovanni Verrando PART 4 – REMINISCENCES Raimo Sariola Gustav Djupsjöbacka Cecilia Oinas Annikka KonttoriGustafsson Päivi Järviö