Welcome to Clark Music Research
In the spring of 2012, a new course was added to the Clark University music curriculum, under the title Workshop in Music History and Criticism. It is led by Professor Benjamin Korstvedt. This course, which is part of Clark’s LEEP initiative, challenges a small group of students to function as a collaborative research group that formulates and pursues projects in the field of music criticism and analysis. The work of the course involves creating new content—through research, critical reflection and music analysis—and then publishing it electronically--here on this blog.
The Work of Music in the Age of its Digital Reproducibility by Scot Canavan
This project, by Scott Canavan '15, was prepared in the Spring 2014 workshop: Classical Music as Recorded Art. It offers a critical perspective on the impact of recording media on music and musical experience in the age of the digital download
Exploring the Influence of Recording by Sarah Maloney
This project, by Sarah Maloney '17, was prepared in the Spring 2014 workshop: Classical Music as Recorded Art. It explores how recording has changed our musical climate using ideas of Marshall McLuhan, Lori Irving, Peter Sulski and an analysis of Brahms, op. 114.
Listening Practices by Alexandria Stirgus
This project, by Alexandria Stirgus '15, was prepared in the Spring 2014 workshop: Classical Music as Recorded Art. It explores how new recording media affect how people listen to music.
More than a Sales Pitch: On the Newness of Haydn’s Op. 33 Quartets
In spring semester 2012, four Clark undergraduates—Ashley Hames ’13, Nick Bisceglia ’13, and Sean Minahan ’13, and Charles Hildreth ’14—pioneered the new Workshop in Music History and Criticism. Working as a group, they produced this study of the meaning and significance of Haydn’s statement that his String Quartets op. 33 were composed in an “entirely new special manner” (auf eine ganz neue, besondere Art geschrieben).
In the spring of 2012, a new course was added to the Clark University music curriculum, under the title Workshop in Music History and Criticism. It is led by Professor Benjamin Korstvedt. This course, which is part of Clark’s LEEP initiative, challenges a small group of students to function as a collaborative research group that formulates and pursues projects in the field of music criticism and analysis. The work of the course involves creating new content—through research, critical reflection and music analysis—and then publishing it electronically, here on this blog. . . .
