Reviews: Aesthetics, Art as Spiritual Perception and Hip-Hop Redemption
Editor’s Note: This review is the first in a series of review clusters, a format new to Transpositions. Review clusters will include 2-3 short…
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Call for Papers – Christianity and ‘The Rite’ Symposium
Christianity and ‘The Rite’ Symposium Retuned welcomes 1000-1500 word articles on Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” for an online symposium the week of May…
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Review: QU4RTETS
Makoto Fujimura, Bruce Herman, and Christopher Theofanidis. QU4RTETS. New York: Fujimura Institute, 2012, 90 pp., $30.00 paper. This catalogue was published to coincide with the…
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Call for Papers – Christian Congregational Music: Local and Global Perspectives
Call for Papers Christian Congregational Music: Local and Global Perspectives Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford, United Kingdom 1-3 August 2013 Congregational music-making has long been…
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Someone Like You: Music, Pain, and Sentimentality
For even the most casual listener of Radio 1, it is self-evident that pain, rejection, and love-lost provides a deep well of inspiration for…
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Our Lady of Contrived Spectacle
It was Henry Hart Milman who evaluated Christendom in the post-Constantine era thusly: “As Christianity worked downwards into lower levels of society […] the…
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Ideologies of the Acoustic Guitar in Contemporary Worship Music
Last semester I taught a popular music history course. When we got to music of the early 1990s, one of my students started singing…
Read MoreWhat Haydn taught me about Creation: A Reflection from an Opera Singer
It is said that Haydn wrote his oratorio ‘Creation’ after being inspired by Handel’s ‘Messiah’. These two oratorios are, arguably, great pillars of the…
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The Challenge of a Blended Music Worship Service
What is a “Minister for Classical Music”? This was the big question that faced me when I moved to North London last summer and…
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