• The 2022 Frances Densmore Prize awarded to NEMO-Online Chief Editor and CERMAA Director Amine Beyhom

    We are delighted at NEMO-Online and CERMAA to announce that Amine Beyhom, Chief Editor of NEMO-Online and Director of the CERMAA, was awarded the 2022 Frances Densmore Prize by the American Musical Instrument Society for his 2020 Dossier on the ʿūd in NEMO-Online. The award announcement stands: The Frances Densmore Prize is awarded annually for the best article-length publication in English that furthers the goals of the Society. The 2022 Densmore Prize is awarded to Amine Beyhom for his article “Was the Early Arabian ‘Ūd ‘Fretted’?” published in Near-Eastern Musicology Online 5, no. 9 (November 2020). “Was the Early Arabian [more…]

  • In memoriam Katy Romanou / Publication internet et version imprimée du NUMÉRO SPÉCIAL DE NEMO-ONLINE / SPECIAL ISSUE of NEMO-ONLINE now online and in print

    In memoriam Katy Romanou / Publication internet et version imprimée du NUMÉRO SPÉCIAL DE NEMO-ONLINE / SPECIAL ISSUE of NEMO-ONLINE now online and in print

    In Memoriam Katy Romanou Available in free pdf version here. Available in print version (paperback) here. Contents / Articles Andriana SOULELE THE CHORUS REFORMATION IN MODERN PERFORMANCES OF ANCIENT GREEK TRAGEDY AFTER 1945: The Suppliants (1964) of Iannis Xenakis and The Persians (1965) of Jani Christou … p.1 Apostolos PALIOS ANALYTICAL AND INTERPRETATIVE APPROACH: Yorgo Sisilianos’s Works for Two Pianos … p.19 Christina GIANNELOU MY 20 YEARS LIFE TRIP: Between Katy Romanou and Rena Kyriakou … p.43 Lampros EFTHYMIOU A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW AND COMPARATIVE STUDY: Musical-Poetical Structural Analysis of Greek Folk-Songs … p.67 Lorenda RAMOU KATY ROMANOU S’EXPRIME: L’oeuvre pour [more…]

  • NEMO-Online Vol. 6 No. 10 is online / Mise en ligne de NEMO-Online Vol. 6 n°10

    English NEMO-Online is delighted to announce the publication of issue No. 10, with three articles by Amine Beyhom (English), Jean During (English) and Hanene Gharbi (حنان الغربي – Arabic). Amine Beyhom: “Further Analyses from the VIAMAP,” Near Eastern Musicology Online 6 10 |2021-11| p. 5–36. The article is a sequel to two already published articles, “MAT for the VIAMAP” and “The Lost Art of Maqām”, with 4 new video analyses and two explicative videos. “[With this article and analyses, the author has] opened a completely novel way of scientific enquiry in musicology.” Wim van der Meer Additional material: Video Analysis no. [more…]

  • NUMÉRO SPÉCIAL DE / NEMO ONLINE / SPECIAL ISSUE

    In Memoriam Katy Romanou NEMO-Online would like to inform potential authors for the NEMO-Online Special Issue “In Memoriam Katy Romanou” (below) that the deadline for submitting propositions of texts is extended till the end of March 2021. / NEMO-Online souhaite informer les auteurs potentiels d’hommages et d’articles pour le numéro spécial “In Memoriam Katy Romanou” (description en fin d’annonce) que la date limite de proposition de textes est étendue jusqu’à fin Mars 2021. The Editors / Les éditeurs English Katy Romanou (Kaitē Rōmanou) was born in 1939, Athens and died in May 2020. She studied at Indiana University where she [more…]

Ricardo Eichmann / entre au Comité de Rédaction de / joins the Academic Board of / Nemo-Online

Dec 182011
 

(French) Nous souhaitons la bienvenue à Ricardo Eichmann (http://www.dainst.org/en/profile/ricardo-eichmann?ft=all), premier directeur de l’Orient-Abteilung du Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (http://www.dainst.org/en/department/orient?ft=all), qui rentre au Comité de Rédaction de NEMO-Online. L’Orient-Abteilung abrite, avec le Department for Ethnomusicology at the Ethnological Museum Berlin (Ethnological Museum Berlin, SMB SPK, Abteilung Musikethnologie, Medien-Technik und Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv), l’International Study Group on Music Archaelogy (http://www.musicarchaeology.org/). (English) We welcome Ricardo Eichmann to the Editorial Board of NEMO. Ricardo Eichmann conducts the Orient-Abteilung of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (http://www.dainst.org/en/department/orient?ft=all). The Orient-Abteilung along with the Department for Ethnomusicology at the Ethnological Museum Berlin (Ethnological Museum Berlin, SMB SPK, Abteilung Musikethnologie, Medien-Technik und [more…]

Médaille d’Argent décernée par l’Académie française à Philippe Brunet / Académie française Silver Medal awarded to Philippe Brunet

Sep 302011
 

(French) Nous tenons à féliciter Philippe Brunet, membre du comité de rédaction de NEMO-Online, pour sa médaille d’argent (Prix Jules Janin) décernée par l’Académie française pour l’année 2011, pour sa traduction de l’Iliade. Lien vers la page des actualités de l’Académie : http://www.academie-francaise.fr/actualites/index.html. (English) Philippe Brunet of the Editorial Board of NEMO-Online has been awarded the silver medal for the Jules Janin Prize of the Académie française for the year 2011 for his translation of Homer’s Iliad (see: http://www.academie-francaise.fr/actualites/index.html). Nemo-Online wishes to congratulate him for this achievement.

A Bibliography for “Microtonal” Music and “Microtones” / Bibliographie de la Musique “Microtonale” et des “Microtons”

Sep 302011
 

(English) A new bibliography  for “Microtonal” Music and “Microtones” has been added today as a complement to the “Temperament and Tuning”  Bibliography previously published on NEMO-Online. Western musicology classifies intervals smaller than half of a tone as microtones. Other cultures differ. This is a comprehensive bibliography of Western works on Western music. Some references to Japanese music, due to its close relation to contemporary Western Music are included. Please refer to Huygens-Fokker’s Tuning and Temperament extensive bibliography.   (French) Une nouvelle bibliographie sur les “microtons” et la musique “microtonale”, complémentaire de celle sur le tempérament et l’accordage publiée il y [more…]

A Bibliography for Musical Scales, Acoustics, Temperament and Tuning

Sep 202011
 

NEMO-Online has published this new bibliography of Musical Scales, Acoustics, Temperament and Tuning. It is intended as a  complement to other specialized biographies also published by NEMO-Online, and is not exhaustive. It mainly includes references to ethnomusicological debates on the problematics  of the scale, instrumental tuning and  perception of  intervals. Music perception is temporarily restricted  to topics directly relevant to scale or temperament.

New Bibliography / Nouvelle Bibliographie : Turkey / Turquie

Sep 082011
 

(French) Dans le cadre de la bibliographie du maqām, une nouvelle bibliographie pour la Turquie a été ajoutée, sous l’onglet “Bibliography > Modality > Maqam > Turquie / Turkey”.   (English) A new bibliography on Modality has been added under the following:  “Bibliography > Modality > Maqam > Turquie / Turkey”, in respect of the Turkish repertoire and music.    

Update for Traditional Occidental Music / Western Folk Music Bibliography

Sep 012011
 

Musiques traditionnelles en Occident / Western Folk Music bibliography (within  Modality Bibliography) has been updated and emended.

ZOTERO installation and user guide for NEMO-Online style sheet (bibliographic referencing)

Sep 012011
 

ZOTERO installation and user guide for NEMO-Online style sheet (bibliographic referencing) (CSL). Firefox must be installed on your computer : it is downloadable from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/fx/, or  at http://www.mozilla.com/products/download.html?product=firefox-5.0.1&os=win&lang=en-US (UK-US versions, and more recent at www.mozilla.org ZOTERA can be downloaded from  (http://www.zotero.org/ – latest version:  http://www.zotero.org/support/2.1_changelog) ;  standalone alpha version from (http://www.zotero.org/support/standalone) acceptable for NEMO. If you have both versions, you can use them alternatively or separately. Install ZOTERO (for use with Firefox) or zotero standalone (for use as a standalone program): Tutorial from http://www.zotero.org/support/start. Using ZOTERO with the NEMO-Online CSL (based on the “Chicago author_date” style), download the NEMO-Online CSL and follow the [more…]

Jazz Bibliography

Sep 012011
 

The Modality Bibliography has been enriched with references on Jazz Modality – We are working on extending these references in view of a further discussion about “lazy” and “studious” modal jazz, within the frame of a larger discussion on modality, which shall soon be published on NEMO’s site…  

Standalone bibliography for the music of Iran and Persia

Aug 302011
 

The bibliography for Iran and Persia is proposed as from to day on a separate page, under “Bibliography > Modality > Maqām > Iran and Persia”.

Addendum to the Bibliography for Ancient Greece and Rome

Aug 282011
 

An addendum  to the Bibliography for Ancient Greece and Rome is available on the “Antiquity” page (“Bibliography > Modality > Antiquity“), and comprises over 180 entries for modern commentaries.   This completes the previous bibliography (on the same page) for the sources of the music of the Antiquity.

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