Robert C Cook
Biographic Data
| ID | 301083 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert C Cook |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert C |
| FAMILY NAME | Cook |
| SIGNATURE | COOK R C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1952 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Heterospecific Song and Ecological Politics
What does it mean to say that a whale has a voice, that a whale sings? Why is it important to human beings to say that whales sing? On the one hand, the use of musical terms to describe cetacean vocalisation is a matter of convenience. On the other hand, the history of human reception of these sounds shows that the usage is a trace of a determination and a desire: a determination to portray cetaceans as intelligent, articulate creatures; a desire…
Nature’s Voice in Crumb’s An Idyll for the Misbegotten
George Crumb prefaces the score to An Idyll for the Misbegotten with a note identifying humankind as the “misbegotten,” rulers of an environmentally “dying world.” Crumb’s piece responds to these thoughts by evoking the “voice of nature.” To have a voice is to have acoustic agency, to have one’s presence acknowledged and heard. In this article, I explore what it means for nature and music to have voice in this sense, and how Crumb’s Idyll may be …
The Vocal Ecology of Crumb's Crickets
Making sound is characteristic of agency in the natural world. It is curious therefore that having separated pitched sound from nature as much as possible-disciplined it into scales, temperaments, etc.-Western music has for centuries made extraordinary efforts to imitate natural sounds and processes with this un-natured sound. Whereas music often depicts nature, "music" has become abstract and transparent, and musical sounds themselves have becom…
Tonal Interpretation, Transformational Models, and the Chromatic Calls to Repent in Franck's Le chasseur maudit
This article provides an analysis of Cesär Franck's Le chasseur maudit, which serves as an extended and elegant reflection on the potential and limitations of various analytical frameworks. This article is placed with respect to notions of chromatic music, specifically on the idea that chromaticism poses analytical difficulties that Riemannian and neo-Riemannian perspectives are particularly well suited to address. After discussing the work from …
The cost of malnutrition in Jamaica
Economic losses caused by malnutrition are identified. The financial costs of child wastage and treatment of malnutrition in Jamaica is conservatively estimated to be U.S. $1.5 million. Increasing the nutritional intake may raise productivity and increase the gross national product by one half of one per cent. If this was to be achieved the financial resources of Jamaica would be supplemented by more than U.S. $4 million. The identification of th…
Human Fertility
Human Fertility
Human Fertility. The Modern Dilemma
The Vocal Ecology of Crumb's Crickets
Making sound is characteristic of agency in the natural world. It is curious therefore that having separated pitched sound from nature as much as possible-disciplined it into scales, temperaments, etc.-Western music has for centuries made extraordinary efforts to imitate natural sounds and processes with this un-natured sound. Whereas music often depicts nature, "music" has become abstract and transparent, and musical sounds themselves have becom…
Human Fertility. The Modern Dilemma
Nature’s Voice in Crumb’s An Idyll for the Misbegotten
George Crumb prefaces the score to An Idyll for the Misbegotten with a note identifying humankind as the “misbegotten,” rulers of an environmentally “dying world.” Crumb’s piece responds to these thoughts by evoking the “voice of nature.” To have a voice is to have acoustic agency, to have one’s presence acknowledged and heard. In this article, I explore what it means for nature and music to have voice in this sense, and how Crumb’s Idyll may be …
Human Fertility
Human Fertility. The Modern Dilemma
Human Fertility
The cost of malnutrition in Jamaica
Economic losses caused by malnutrition are identified. The financial costs of child wastage and treatment of malnutrition in Jamaica is conservatively estimated to be U.S. $1.5 million. Increasing the nutritional intake may raise productivity and increase the gross national product by one half of one per cent. If this was to be achieved the financial resources of Jamaica would be supplemented by more than U.S. $4 million. The identification of th…
Tonal Interpretation, Transformational Models, and the Chromatic Calls to Repent in Franck's Le chasseur maudit
This article provides an analysis of Cesär Franck's Le chasseur maudit, which serves as an extended and elegant reflection on the potential and limitations of various analytical frameworks. This article is placed with respect to notions of chromatic music, specifically on the idea that chromaticism poses analytical difficulties that Riemannian and neo-Riemannian perspectives are particularly well suited to address. After discussing the work from …
The Vocal Ecology of Crumb's Crickets
Making sound is characteristic of agency in the natural world. It is curious therefore that having separated pitched sound from nature as much as possible-disciplined it into scales, temperaments, etc.-Western music has for centuries made extraordinary efforts to imitate natural sounds and processes with this un-natured sound. Whereas music often depicts nature, "music" has become abstract and transparent, and musical sounds themselves have becom…
Nature’s Voice in Crumb’s An Idyll for the Misbegotten
George Crumb prefaces the score to An Idyll for the Misbegotten with a note identifying humankind as the “misbegotten,” rulers of an environmentally “dying world.” Crumb’s piece responds to these thoughts by evoking the “voice of nature.” To have a voice is to have acoustic agency, to have one’s presence acknowledged and heard. In this article, I explore what it means for nature and music to have voice in this sense, and how Crumb’s Idyll may be …
Heterospecific Song and Ecological Politics
What does it mean to say that a whale has a voice, that a whale sings? Why is it important to human beings to say that whales sing? On the one hand, the use of musical terms to describe cetacean vocalisation is a matter of convenience. On the other hand, the history of human reception of these sounds shows that the usage is a trace of a determination and a desire: a determination to portray cetaceans as intelligent, articulate creatures; a desire…
Philosophy (4 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (3 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Fertility (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Dilemma (2 works) · Environmental health (2 works)