Danuta Mirka

Biographic Data

ID5979376
NAMEDanuta Mirka
GIVEN NAMESDanuta
FAMILY NAMEMirka
SIGNATUREMIRKA D
AFFILIATIONSMusic Academy, Poland
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR4
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
H-INDEX1

  • Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory

    Danuta MirkaBOOKOxford Handbook of Topic Theory2016

  • Music and Dance in the Ancien Régime

    Lawrence M Zbikowski, Lawrence Zbikowski et al.EDITORBOOKOxford Handbook of Topic Theory2014References: 1

    This chapter explores the contribution French noble dance made to the topical universe available to composers in the latter half of the eighteenth century. The chapter reviews the culture of dance in the ancien régime and offers a detailed analysis of the relationship between music and dance in a bourrée; the choreography for this bourrée was preserved in dance notation and published in 1700. This analysis suggests that topical references to Fren…

  • Topical Figurae

    Stephen Rumph, Danuta MirkaEDITORBOOKOxford Handbook of Topic Theory2014Cited by: 1

    Musical topics have invited comparison with language ever since Leonard Ratner adopted the rhetorical termtopos. Yet topic theory has not addressed the "double articulation" of language: while words function as meaningful signs, they are articulated by meaningless elements, what Louis Hjelmslev referred to collectively as "figurae." This chapter develops an analogous theory of topical figurae, structural features that articulate multiple topics b…

  • The Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory

    Danuta MirkaEDITORBOOKOxford Handbook of Topic Theory2013

    The concept of topics was introduced into the vocabulary of music scholars by Leonard Ratner to account for cross-references between eighteenth-century styles and genres. The emergence of this phenomenon followed the rapid proliferation and consolidation of stylistic and generic categories. While music theorists and critics classified styles and genres, defining their affects and proper contexts for their usage, composers crossed the boundaries b…

  • Communication in Eighteenth-Century Music

    Open AccessV Kofi Agawu, Danuta Mirka et al.EDITORBOOKCommunication in Eighteenth-Century…2008

    Written by ten leading scholars, this volume assembles studies of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century music under the broad rubric of communication. That such an impulse motivates musical composition and performance in this period of European musical history is often acknowledged but seldom examined in depth. The book explores a broad set of issues, ranging from the exigencies of the market for books and music in the eighteenth century throu…

  • Das Spiel mit der Kadenz

    Open AccessDanuta MirkaARTICLEDie Musikforschung2004

    Die Kadenz, die von Heinrich Christoph Koch 1787 als eine aus drei Tönen bestehende Grundgestalt beschrieben wird, hat sich im ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert zu unterschiedlichen eigenartigen Kadenzformeln entwickelt, die besonders für einzelne Stile und Gattungen geeignet waren. Für Instrumentalmusik ist die Formel, die als "große Bravour-Kadenz" bezeichnet und als ein metrisch-harmonisch-melodisches Schema im Sinne der kognitiven Musikwissenschaft…

  • Naomi Cummings sonic self

    Open AccessDanuta MirkaARTICLESemiotica2002References: 2

  • Texture in Penderecki’s Sonoristic Style

    Open AccessDanuta MirkaARTICLEMusic Theory Online2000

    In his so-called “sonoristic” period of the early 1960s—represented by pieces such as Threnody , Fluorescences , Polymorphia , and others—Penderecki employed a compositional system whose axiomatic concept was not a single sound, but the sound matter in its totality. Distinct states of this sound matter were governed by two relatively independent systems: (1) a basic system which ruled the texture of sound masses and (2) a timbre system governing …