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The Beethoven Syndrome: Hearing Music as Autobiography, by Mark Evan Bonds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. xiii, 325 pp. Describing and distancing supposedly obsolete versions of Beethoven is an [...]

In this introduction to the forum Quirk Historicism, the editors describe the recent tendency of music scholars, in the wake of New Historicism, to avail themselves of objets trouvés and historical micronarratives for interpretation. Fall 2015

Contents Introduction 541 FRANCESCA BRITTAN and CARMEL RAZ Interest and the Musical Histories of the Attention Economy 547 NICHOLAS MATHEW Talking to the Hand: The 'Hysterical Epistemology' of the 552 [...]

In James Currie's book, a distantly Adornian conception of negation organizes a series of close readings of compositions by Mozart and Haydn, plus a concluding excursus on the West-Eastern Divan [...]

Aims: The study aims to find out the best possible method of cleaning the removable partial denture (RPD) by evaluating the Candida count limiting ability in RPD users using three different cleaning methods. Settings and Design: The present study is randomized controlled trial. Three groups were formed with 20 participants in each. The groups were Group 1 RPD cleansing done using sterile saline and denture brush (negative control group), Group 2 RPD cleansing done using soap and denture brush and Group 3 RPD cleansing done using denture cleansing tablet and denture brush. Materials and Methods: A baseline data and 15 days' postinsertion data of Candida count was recorded using swab collection, from the RPDs given. The swab was collected, cultured, and incubated using standard methods. Once Candida was identified using Sabouraud's dextrose agar, Candida albicans was further confirmed using germ tube test and cornmeal agar. Statistical Analysis Used: The analysis was done using SPSS software (IBM Corp. Released 2010. IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 19.0. Armonk, NY: IBM Corp.). Paired t-test, was used to compare the number of colonies pre and postintervention. The difference between the groups was analyzed using oneway analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Tukey's post hoc analysis. Results: The comparison of baseline data and postintervention data within each group using paired t test demonstrated statistically significant values; P = 0.046 and 0.000 in Group 2 and 3 respectively. The difference between the Candida colonies in three different groups after the intervention (15 Days) was analyzed using analysis of variance and found to be statistically significant with P = 0.004. Tukey's post hoc analysis was used to analyze the difference between the groups. It was concurred that there was a statistically significant difference between all three groups, but the difference in the mean was highest between the Group 1 and 3 (1210.99). Conclusion: Within the limitations of the study, it is concluded that the use of denture cleansers and brush on a daily basis would actively reduce the number of C. albicans colony formation in RPD and thereby improve the overall health of denture wearer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Generally Beethoven's musical voice pervades each of his work with the composer's distinctive mark but some of his works on the other hand are shown to have the unmistakable presence of foreign voices, which are hard to ignore.

The decline of Beethoven's heroic style of composition is evident in his 1813 battle piece Wellingtons Sieg, composed during the Congress of Vienna in 1814-15.

This essay is about the long-standing and tenacious audile technique of listening past--that is, the discrimination of music, musical performances, and even sound amid the ostensibly broader range of vibrations conveyed by any media form. For some time, an assortment of musicians, sound artists, and theoreticians have lined up to maintain that this cognitive-discursive technique, which suppresses or diminishes the processes of mediation, is in some sense ideological: illusory, contingent, and even exclusionary. Cagean theories of sound, feminist valorizations of embodiment and presence, ecological ethics of the soundscape, tech-focused philosophies of mediation, ethnographic conceptions of aurality, and Deleuzian vibrational ontologies--all are united in their foundational skepticism. Centered on digital transfer of an early electric recording of a performance of Beethoven's Sixth from 1927 conducted by Felix Weingartner, this essay seeks to reevaluate the political implications of listening past by drawing out its submerged relationships to the traditional historicist project of recovering what I call past listenings--lost modes of listening that are supposedly indivisible from particular spaces, historical moments, and radically situated subjectivities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on several planned musical events published in the periodical such as Cramer, Antient concert and Ladies subscription concert. Topics include concerts to be held in the pleasure gardens, large musical gatherings sponsored by organizations such as the Anacreontic Society, and countless semi-private musical performances in the houses of the gentry; and several program advertised in newspapers are couple of symphonies and songs.