Thursday, December 20, 2018

New Publication: Rounds, Canons, and Catches

I have published a new essay on the Texas Scholar Works platform: Rounds, Catches and Canons: Interval Frames and Ascending FiguresLink.

Here is the abstract:
The play of register in the compact designs of vocal rounds sets up a structure that is quite amenable to rising cadence figures. Repertoire presented here comes from two general groups of sources: (1) nineteenth-century amateur and school collections, which include both traditional and contemporary rounds; (2) seventeenth-century publications by Thomas Ravenscroft, John Hilton, and Henry Purcell.