Melinda Latour
Biographic Data
| ID | 5772679 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melinda Latour |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melinda |
| FAMILY NAME | Latour |
| SIGNATURE | LATOUR M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rumsey Family Assistant Professor of Musicology, Tufts University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Performance of Friendship
In this article, I present new research on the composer Paschal de L’Estocart during his peak years of activity at the University of Basel (1581–3). In addition to discussing two fresh pieces of archival evidence related to L’Estocart found in the Basel archives, I offer new research on the identities of his laudatory contributors. Considering how little biographical information has survived on the composer beyond his published music, the identit…
The Relentless Pursuit of Tone
The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre in Popular Music assembles a wide spectrum of contemporary perspectives on how sound functions in an equally wide array of popular music. With subjects ranging from the twang of country banjos and the sheen of hip-hop strings to the crunch of amplified guitars and the thump of subwoofers on the dance floor, this volume attempts to bridge the gap between timbre, the purely acoustic characteristics of sound wa…
Relentless Pursuit of Tone
Disciplining Song in Sixteenth-Century Geneva
Song was frequently disciplined in the sixteenth-century Consistory of Geneva as part of the broad program of social Reform led by Calvin. Between 1542 and 1552, more than one hundred cases involving illicit singing came before the Consistory court. These cases reveal the Consistory’s persistent attempt to control the singing of all members of Genevan society regardless of social status or situation. They also offer a new field of evidence for ex…
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Disciplining Song in Sixteenth-Century Geneva
Song was frequently disciplined in the sixteenth-century Consistory of Geneva as part of the broad program of social Reform led by Calvin. Between 1542 and 1552, more than one hundred cases involving illicit singing came before the Consistory court. These cases reveal the Consistory’s persistent attempt to control the singing of all members of Genevan society regardless of social status or situation. They also offer a new field of evidence for ex…
The Relentless Pursuit of Tone
The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre in Popular Music assembles a wide spectrum of contemporary perspectives on how sound functions in an equally wide array of popular music. With subjects ranging from the twang of country banjos and the sheen of hip-hop strings to the crunch of amplified guitars and the thump of subwoofers on the dance floor, this volume attempts to bridge the gap between timbre, the purely acoustic characteristics of sound wa…
Relentless Pursuit of Tone
The Performance of Friendship
In this article, I present new research on the composer Paschal de L’Estocart during his peak years of activity at the University of Basel (1581–3). In addition to discussing two fresh pieces of archival evidence related to L’Estocart found in the Basel archives, I offer new research on the identities of his laudatory contributors. Considering how little biographical information has survived on the composer beyond his published music, the identit…
History (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Historical Influence and Diplomacy (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Acoustics (1 works) · Aesthetics (1 works)