New Sound
Datos de la Revista
| Tipo | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science (RS) |
| ISSN | 0354-818X / 1821-3782 |
| Wikidata | Q96718854 |
| OpenAlex | S4210194220 |
| MAG | 4210194220 |
| Sitio web | http://www.newsound.org.rs |
| Total de publicaciones | 91 |
| Periodo de cobertura | 2011 - 2025 |
| País | RS |
| Idioma | EN |
| Acceso | Open Access |
| Citada por | 5 |
| Factor de impacto | 0.038 |
| Índice h | 1 |
New Sound is an international journal dedicated to music. As ethnomusicology is a recognized subfield of anthropology, this journal frequently publishes work directly relevant to social anthropologists studying music, sound, and culture
Art, Technology, and Culture · Balkan and Eastern European Studies · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Cinema and Media Studies · Cybernetics and Technology in Society · Digital Games and Media · Diverse Music Education Insights · Diverse Musicological Studies · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Eastern European Communism and Reforms
The (Un)Importance of Lyrics in Songwriting
By examining a range of examples from renowned artists, this paper argues that, in many cases, music dictates the direction of songwriting, with lyrics adapting to fit the established musical structure. Through detailed analysis of song creation, the study demonstrates how musical elements take precedence, while the lyrical components often serve to complement rather than define the overall music-making process. This research challenges conventio…
Dejan Despić and " Ahistorical History"
This paper analyses Dejan Despić's Miniatures for Flobarp Trio, linking it to Mirjana Veselinović-Hofman's use of the concept of "ahistorical history". In these ten miniatures, Despić crafts an auditory mosaic by subtly compressing Baroque and Impressionistic stylistic references, reducing them to their archetypal essence. Unlike postmodernist citation, Despić synthesises elements into a fluid, functional whole, striving for conciseness and unive…
Music as unspoken poetry
One of the most prolific composers of contemporary Serbian music, Dejan Despić, dedicated over sixty years to composing art songs for voice and various instruments or instrumental ensembles. This paper examines the song cycle for mezzo-soprano, baritone, and string quartet which Despić composed to the verses of the prominent Serbian Romantic poet Branko Radičević and published under the title Brankova lira (Branko's Lyre). The focus of this paper…
Traditional dance music of Romanians in Vojvodina
Thus far, the traditional dance music of Romanians living in Vojvodina, in the Republic of Serbia, have not been the subject of any major ethnomusicological research. Hence the twofold purpose of this paper: a classification and morphological peculiarities of the known dance tunes is presented on the basis of the available ethnomusicological, ethnochoreological and ethnological literature, data obtained from informants, published notational recor…
From cold war politics to covid-19 policies
In this paper, the ever-changing perspectives of Greek art music are viewed from a retrospective standpoint both in the realm of transcending borders between centers and peripheries of 20th-century European music traditions and under the fluid context of social, ideological and cultural particularities of the Greek state during the second half of the 20th and the early 21st centuries. The identification of domestic cultural policies, whether impa…
Mild tea, made of air for flute, violoncello, and piano by Svetlana Savić
Mild Tea, Made of Air, a piece for flute, violoncello, and piano (2024) by Svetlana Savić, explores possible ways of working with the text as a basic means of construction in shaping a work of instrumental music. A vocal part set to a poem by Saša Radojčić, Tea Made of Air, composed in the first phase of work on the piece but then omitted from its final version, constitutes an imaginative procedure on the author's part, especially in the context …
Grup Yorum
Through the case study of the Turkish music collective Grup Yorum, we will explore how music is still perceived as a subversive and potentially dangerous tool by the establishment today. Since its inception (1985), Grup Yorum has suffered continuous repression due to its political and social commitment. The cultural independence and linguistic pluralism sought by the band demonstrate their commitment to global causes in the affirmation of diversi…
Pierre Boulez
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the significance of the role of tempo and its proper regulation under "impossible conditions" - in a modernist score devoid of metronome tempo indications - with a view of tempo as the main driving force of expressivity, using Pierre Boulez's Douze Notations for solo piano as an example. Although performers are free to interpret means of expression as they see fit, notated indications acquire their mean…
Serbian choral societies in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1886 to 1914
This paper emphasizes different aspects of the activity of Serbian choral societies in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the period since the foundation of the first Lower Tuzla Serbian Church Choir in March 1886 until the beginning of the First World War. The aim of the paper is to comprehensively and systematically present the available data. It was made on the basis of archival material and previous research by scholars from Bosnia and Herzegovina and…
Redžep-Rečko Međedović as an interpreter of the vocal-instrumental practice of Pazar song
Redžep-Rečko Međedović is the best known performer of "Pazar song" an element of the traditional musical heritage in Novi Pazar. Starting from the seventies of the 20th century till today, Međedović has been performing Pazar and other songs accompanied by a stringed instrument - the đumbuš/banjo at weddings, dance parties and other gatherings, and enjoys huge popularity in the local community. For the purposes of this paper, field research was co…
Formulating a theoretical basis for working on triads sharing the same third in the higher education curriculum
Relations between triads sharing the same third are rare within harmonic progressions and, due to their distinct sonority, they are fascinating to listen to and perform. They have received little attention in theoretical literature on music (partly due to their limited representation in the musical repertoire) and they are rarely mentioned in solfeggio literature. Regardless, they represent a significant element of musical expression that needs t…
The efforts of socialist Yugoslavia's music associations in the affirmation of (contemporary) art music among children and youth
After the end of the Second World War the large-scale project of cultural and educational emancipation of the Yugoslav population was initiated by several mass organizations that were affiliated with the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. The newly established republican, and later federal associations of composers, art music performer, concert and orchestral performers, and music pedagogues also contributed to this process. In this paper, we will ex…
Water, an Audiovisual Work by Vladimir Korać
The composer Vladimir Korać (b. 1986) creates works for solo instruments, various chamber ensembles, symphony orchestras, electronics, and electro-acoustic works, which constitute the main part of his oeuvre thus far. In this area, his works are recognizable in terms of his preferred tools, which include reduced textures, stemming from spectral sound analysis; using prepared electronic structures and controlled "live" processing, as well as worki…
Srpski zvuci
The life journey of the medical doctor and musician Jovan Paču (1847-1902) brought together the various branches of his prolific and richly creative personality , providing him with a prominent place in the history of Serbian 19th-century music. Although his primary vocation was medicine, he had also acquired education in music from early childhood, also working, during his active creative period, as a composer, pianist, music teacher, and writer…
Vertical time in arts
The paper sheds light on Gaston Bachelard's concept of vertical time. The topic is elaborated in relation to intrinsic time by Étienne Souriau which concerns the plastic arts. It corresponds to the time operator formalism of complex systems whose defining feature is the existence of the intrinsic time operator. The complex system model is based upon statistical causality which occurs through inheritance in the vertical temporality. The model is d…
The projections of musical space-time in Instrumental Songs by Petar Osghian
In commemoration of the 70 th anniversary of Petar Osghian's birth and the release of a three-volume CD set containing the majority of his oeuvre, musicologist Dragana Stojanović-Novičić highlighted Instrumental Songs for 26 female voices (1978) as the piece that most strikingly exemplifies Osghian's mature musical style. Among the many intriguing details, the author chose the piece's "fascinating sonority", particularly in relation to the select…
The art of musical interpretation
The subject of this paper is a discussion of distinguished Italian thinkers, musicologists and critics on the topic of musical interpretation, initiated in 1930 in the periodical La Rassegna Musicale. In the following years - contrary to the positivism that dominated in Italy at the end of the 19th century, and influenced by the Crocean idealism - numerous authors breathed life into the performer, recognizing their part in the creation of musical…
Teleological strategies of non-tonal music
In Ligeti's Lux aeterna micropolyphony and the lack of an apparent system of pitch organization comparable to functional tonality seem to preclude goal-directed processes of musical motion. Yet, this article will demonstrate the existence of goals and paths leading toward them on various levels (short-, medium-, and long-term). These teleological procedures include contextually establishing intonational centers as goals; directed linear motion; t…
Exploring sound through the synthesizer in Ludmila Frajt's Nocturne
The constants and characteristics of the poetic expression of the composer Ludmila Frajt can be found in her composition Nocturne. Her desire to examine sound, nuances, and effects, led to exploring all the possibilities that electroacoustic devices, specifically the synthesizer, can bring forth. One of the constants that can be observed in the composition is the presence of the bordun basis, which was reproduced using an electroacoustic device a…
Educational mission of Milan Đ. Milićević (1831-1908) in the context of Serbian music education
The oeuvre of the Serbian educator, writer, pedagogue, translator and ethnographer Milan Đ. Milićević completes the existing picture of music pedagogy in Serbia in the second half of the 19th century. Although Milićević did not directly deal with music pedagogical issues, he was deeply convinced that learning music has a central role in the moral development of the individual and community if it is grounded in mastering church chants and folk son…
Semiosis of the opera 'The Knock' by Aleksandra Vrebalov
The opera The Knock was commissioned by the Glimmerglass Festival and was planned to be performed in 2021. Due to the pandemic the premiere was postponed, but Glimmerglass decided to film the opera and stream it on YouTube. The screened version of The Knock is the subject of this paper. Despite the setback, the opera had its live premiere on June 23, 2023 at the Cincinnati Opera House. The libretto of The Knock was inspired by the autobiographica…
Being fascinated with musical space-time
The piano works by Branka Popović (1977) appear as a unique and independent group in her oeuvre, as well as in the context of Serbian music of the current century. The question of the relation between the composer and musical space-time, which can be experienced directly, during the act of listening and indirectly, during the analysis of the piece of music, emerges as an essential point for understanding and interpreting Branka Popović's piano wo…
Examining the 'hyper' status of Varèse's 'prism'
This paper offers an interpretation of the composition Hyperprism by Edgard Varèse. It provides an explanation of the work's possible meanings, placing emphasis on the investigation of the "hyper" status of the work as a "prism". Relying on the composer's poetics and bearing in mind his scientific approach to sound and sound articulation, this paper proposes the interpretation of the meaning of Hyperprism from the perspectives of geometry, optics…
The oeuvre of Isidora Žebeljan
In line with the extraordinary international significance that the oeuvre of Isidora Žebeljan commands in Serbia and abroad, the article begins by discussing the essence of that significance, highlighting the most important artistic accomplishments of Isidora's music as well as its unique traits that have played a direct role in the assertive breakthrough that Serbian music has made on the international stage. Specifically, it analyses three crea…
Women's leadership in professional ensembles of folk dances and songs in Serbia
In this paper women's leadership will be reviewed through the professional biographies of two women who, in the role of director, managed the stage presentation of folk dance and music in Serbia. One of them is Olga Skovran, who laid the foundation of folklore professionalism in Serbia and the region and established the Ensemble "Kolo". She was the Ensemble's general manager from 1948 to 1965. The other woman is Snežana Jovanović, who has been th…
Tracing the discipline
The interest for traditional dance research in Serbia is noted since the second part of the 19th century in various ethnographical sources. However, organized and scientifically grounded study was begun by the sisters Danica and Ljubica Janković marked by publishing of the first of totally eight volumes of the "Folk Dances" [Narodne igre] in 1934. All eight books of this edition published periodically until 1964 were highly acknowledged by the br…
Musica inhumana
This paper deals with the analysis of noise music by the Japanese artist Merz-bow, especially emphasizing the posthumanistic ethical and aesthetical paradigm as his artistic and political project. This project, or assemblage, has several aspects, three being particularly important: "musical" system (acoustic material, creator, listener), visual and textual material (album covers, articles and interviews), and the attitude towards the non-human (m…
The sound is my personal diary
Svetlana Savić is one of our most prominent composers of the middle generation, born in 1971
Folk music quotations and allusions in Latvian composers' neo-romantic symphonic music in the last decades of the 20th century and early 21st century
This article focuses on the one specific question about folk music quotations and allusions in the symphonic music of Latvian composers in the last third of the 20th century (from the 70s) and the early 21 st century. Several Latvian composers (e.g. Romualds Kalsons, Pēteris Butāns, Pēteris Vasks, Pēteris Plakidis, Juris Karlsons) in their NEO-romantic symphonic works reflects interesting cases of Latvian folk music quotation, quasi quotation or …
The anatomy of voice
In this paper we discuss the exhibition Post-Opera, a complex and provocative curatorial project by Kris Dittel and Jelena Novak, in which the changeable relations between the voice and the (human) body are investigated from the creative and the theoretical perspectives, relying on juxtaposing and reflection between visual arts, technology and opera. Firstly, in the paper we examine the curatorial procedure, in its shift from the mediatory functi…
Moderate modernism as the third way in the opus of Alfredo Casella
The work of an artist is related to society, politics, and ideology, which are important aspects of the context in which the work of art is created. The multi-layered relationship between art/music and society/politics can especially be seen when we consider neoclassicism, which was for decades after the Second World War in literature defined as a stylistic movement in the service of the ruling (totalitarian) regimes. Consequently, authors of neo…
Pedagogical work of Vesna Mikić
This paper focuses on the teaching work of Vesna Mikić, PhD (1967-2019), full professor at the Department of Musicology of the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. Considering that she was tied to this institution throughout most of her professional career, the paper will offer an outlook on the curricula of the subjects which she taught over the years, and an attempt to shed light on her approach to teaching and to the subject matter she taught. In add…
Like in the old days
The article offers a discussion of ...and I need a room... (2013), a piece for large chamber ensemble by Serbo-Canadian composer Ana Sokolović (Ana Sokolović), inspired by songs by the former Belgrade rock band Ekatarina Velika (EKV, Ekatarina Velika, EKV; "Catherine the Great"). Dedicated to the 1980s urban generations of former Yugoslavia, the work occupies a unique place in its author's oeuvre, by virtue of opening, on the one hand, a world of…
The joy of discovery
composing, and pedagogy -provide an additional incentive and inspiration for conducting this interview with her
Jürgen Blume
This article deals with Psalm 30 for four-part choir and organ (2014) by the German composer Jürgen Blume. It explores the musical elements that are used in the composition in order to examine the style of the composer. Since Blume's composition is not based on tonal harmonic function, this article uses set theory (prime form and the interval-class vector) in order to examine pitch organization and sonorities. Because Blume chose the genre sacred…
The anti-war voice of Buffy Sainte-Marie
Universal soldier (1964), Soldier Blue (1970), and The War Racket (2017) represent some of Buffy Sainte-Marie's most prominent anti-war songwriting, where she demonstrates her poietic process as an artist and activist. Considering her anti-war utterance, I will analyze these selected songs and place them in Buffy Sainte-Marie's work as an activist and performer. Additionally, I intend to interpret her musical production through semiotics and herm…
Reflecting upon freedom in two electroacoustic works by Elżbieta Sikora
The text's aim is to interpret the political and social aspect of Elżbieta Sikora's (born 1943) two electronic works: Rapsodia na śmierć republiki (Rhapsody for the Death of the Republic, 1979) and Janek Wiśniewski, grudzień, Polska (Janek Wiśniewski, December, Poland, 1981-1982). In my paper, I show the two pieces as examples of the 'engaged music' (as Sikora herself called them). I consider the role of their titles, narration, the use of pre-re…
Associative tonality and tonal-harmonic third relations in the interpretation of textual and dramatic meanings in Richard Strauss's Elektra
The subject of research in this paper is the specific manifestation of associative tonality and tonal-harmonic third relations in Strauss's opera Elektra. Originating from the analytical discourse of several authors, dedicated to opera and music drama, associative tonality is a dramatic-tonal concept within which a certain key is consistently associated with a specific dramatic element, such as character, collectivity, event, feeling and more. In…
Play of signs in antennae by Aleksandra Vrebalov
During a Creative Fusion residency at the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2018, composer Aleksandra Vrebalov was inspired by the Byzantine icon the Virgin Eleousa and shortly after composed the piece Antennae. This paper presents the semantic relationship between the icon and various signs which are selected and combined to structure the musical piece. It is argued the composer uses signs based on their acoustic qualities and communicational potential…
Transposition of the myth of Pan's flute in Satirova svirala [La flûte de Pan] by Petar Konjović
In this paper we interpret the elements of the fantasy and ballad principle in Satirova svirala [La flûte de Pan] (1945) for solo flute written by Petar Konjović (1883-1970) from the point of view of the author's poetics and musical and non-musical analogies with Claude Debussy's (1862-1918) composition Syrinx (1913). Aspects of the fantasy principle are equally manifested when considering Satirova svirala as a unique musical entity that musicali…
Posthuman 'transformation' inside/on the Web Ana Gnjatović
The aim of this paper is to analyse Ana Gnjatović's work, Arachne's Dream, written for piano and live electronics. The work premiered in 2019 on the initiative of Nataša Penezić, a pianist to whom this work has been dedicated. Based on the idea of the sound realization of a spider web phenomenon (within an electronic medium), I will try to analyse the development path and the creation process this piece undergoes, by taking into account the extra…
Chamber music of Szilárd Mezei and diferentiated congruence in its composing layers (I)
The composer and violist Szilárd Mezei has made a significant, decades-long contribution to contemporary music in the national and international contexts. Although his artistic approach can be linked to the musical universe of György Szabados, an author who became one of the most influential creative figures in the Central European cultural space during the 1970s and 1980s, Mezei is a special phenomenon on the local music scene. With his ensemble…
Music as an aggregate of colours
Nikodijević's piece for symphony orchestra cvetić, kućica.../la lugubre gondola: funeral music after franz liszt -in memoriam (2009), which won him the Gaudeamus Award in 2010, achieved a well-deserved breakthrough in improving his oeuvre's visibility on the international music scene.In this work he "treated Liszt's score like a kind of 'archive' of sorrowful motives.He imported Liszt's motives in his composition randomly, remediated them, develo…
The Legend of Ohrid
The paper discusses the interpretations of the choreographic aspects of different versions of the performance of the ballet The Ohrid Legend by Stevan Hristić. In the choreographies of this ballet, ballet vocabulary is combined with folklore motifs, using the principle of balletization of folklore. This choreographic approach has produced a pluralism of opinions on the ballet critical scene-from the modernization of folklore elements to views tha…
A new sound and anticipation of unimaginable reality
This paper examines how composer Luciano Berio with his composition Sequenza III per voce femminile (1965/66) succeeded in exploring something that is reality behind reality through the unique treatment of artistic material, in this case musical and verbal, much like certain avant-garde artists. It is a search for something that listeners cannot see because of the complex psychological mechanism of the human organism and which is deeply covered b…
Ideological aspects of erotic capital and patriarchal power relations in the visual interpretations of Lola Astanova
Lola Astanova is a professional Uzbek-American pianist who resorts to controversial performance practices in line with neo-globalist trends. Thus, her extravagant musico-visual "spectacles" are recognisable by an excessive emphasis on female sexuality and the absence of a highly aestheticised, contemplative piano sound. This paper aims to explore how the ideological and interpretive strategies of this un-conventional artist are imbued with the er…
Jonathan Harvey's String Trio
In his Program Note for the String Trio (2004), Jonathan Harvey noted that this work features "two main (and contrasting) types of music-the rustic and the sacred." Harvey defines his "rustic" style as folkloristic, while the "sacred" is based on his liturgical drama, Passion and Resurrection. In this article, I examine Harvey's use of both conventional and experimental techniques and distinct gestures to examine the two contrasting worlds of the…
On musical memory in Đorđe Marković's Monuments
By looking at various theoretical perspectives on the role of memory in contemporary culture and examining the problem of musical memory, this paper explores the significance of reminiscences of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Krzysztof Penderecki's Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima in Đorđe Marković's (b. 1978) symphonic composition Monuments: Overture for Peace (2022). The conclusion is that, due to increasingly rapid social chang…
Creation based on the already created
Ornamented singing in the folk songs of the Slovaks in Stará Pazova, Serbia
The traditional songs of the Slovaks in Stará Pazova in Vojvodina, Serbia, have several peculiarities. Their ornamentation is unusual not only in comparison with the folk songs of the other Slovak localities in Vojvodina, but also with the repertoire of Slovak songs in present-day Slovakia. After an overview of the documentation of ornamented singing in this locality, the author proposes a typology of the ornaments and specifies three ornamented …
New Sound in the New Sound
In this text, written to mark the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the New Sound International Journal of Music, I discuss two concepts/terms that have exerted a formative influence on its physiognomy. Those concepts are new sound and (the) international, whose meanings have crystallised in the Journal in line with their intersections with categories that are respectively related to them. The basis of those intersections is identified in …
Indeterminate-oriented to rational-oriented
Around 1904, the sociologist Max Weber observed the lifestyle of Protestants and proposed a theory of rationality focusing on the relationship between individuals' actions and their choices, value standards, and purposes. He then extended this theory to music, positing that the rational features of music are structural, systematic, intentional, functional, and interactive. However, these reasonable features appeared unreasonable when music entere…