Musicologist Richard J. Ripani identified Jackson as a leader in the development of contemporary R & B, as her 1986 album Control and its successor Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 created a unique blend of genre and sound effects, that ushered in the use of rap vocals into mainstream R & B.

Musicologist Richard Middleton describes form through repetition and difference: difference is the distance moved from a repeat ; a repeat being the smallest difference.

* Musicologist Paula Higgins, in another robust critique of McClary's work, has observed that “ one wonders … if has not strategically co-opted feminism as an excuse for guerrilla attacks on the field .” Higgins complains of McClary's “ truculent verbal assaults on musicological straw men ”, and observes that “ For all the hip culture critique imported from other fields, McClary has left the cobwebs of patriarchal musicological thought largely intact .” ” Higgins is also critical of McClary's citation practice as it concerns other scholars in the area of feminist musical criticism.

Musicologist Geoffrey Norris, in contrast, argued that Rachmaninoff did not go far enough in his revisions.

Musicologist Alan W. Pollack analyses: " The chord progression of the outro itself is a harmonic Moebius strip with scales in bassline and top voice that move in contrary motion.

Musicologist Gustave Reese said that the second group, called mensuralists, " have an impressive amount of historical evidence on their side ," ( Music in the Middle Ages, p. 146 ), but the equal-note Solesmes interpretation has permeated the musical world, apparently due to its ease of learning and resonance with modern musical taste.

Japanese Musicologist 黑澤隆朝 recorded with Bunun musicians in 1943.

Musicologist Joseph Lanza relates space music to prior generations of relaxing or environmental music, with a twist, writing, " Space music is easy-listening with amnesia, sounding like the future but retaining unconscious ties to elevator music of the past.

Musicologist Daniel Goldmark interprets the film as a send-up of black religion and culture and the increasing identification of 1930s white audiences of jazz music with black culture.

Musicologist Julian Cope, in his book Krautrocksampler, says " Krautrock is a subjective British phenomenon ," based on the way the music was received in the UK rather than on the actual West German music scene out of which it grew.

Musicologist Robert Donington writes similarly: " score contains no element which was not based on precedent, but it reaches complete maturity in that recently-developed form ...

Musicologist Aleksandra Orlova claims that the original manuscript of this version was discovered in the library of the Leningrad Conservatory by musicologist Georgiy Orlov in the late 1920s, that it was performed once by the Leningrad Philhamonic Society, and that Nikolay Malko brought along a copy of it when he emigrated to the West.

Musicologist K. J. McElrath wrote of the song :" Gershwin was remarkably successful in his intent to have this sound like a folk song.

Many of the above mentioned music and dance have been styliled by Prof. Rex Nettleford artistic director ( ret, prof and vice chancellor of The University of the West Indies ) and Marjorie Whyle Musical Director ( Caribbean Musicologist, pianist, drummer, arranger lecturer at the University of the West Indies ).

" Musicologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez summarizes the relativist, post-modern viewpoint: " The border between music and noise is always culturally defined — which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place ; in short, there is rarely a consensus ... By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be.

Musicologist John Warrack suggests that, of all Tchaikovsky's major neglected works, Manfred may be the one which least deserves this fate.

Musicologist Bill McGlaughlin likens its place in British music to the place Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings holds for Americans.

Musicologist Dorothy Horn suggests the success of The New Harp is due to its excellent printing and its larger than normal sample of standard tunes favored by various Protestant denominations.

Musicologist Ralph Wood, in contrast, stated that while the finale may have its faults, there is still much about the music that is quite good.

Musicologist Daniel Party defines this kind of ballad as a love song in slow tempo, interpreted by a solist, usually acompaigned by an orchestra.

Musicologist Leonard Meyer demonstrated how purely rhythmic and harmonic events can express human emotions.

Musicologist David Rothenberg has endorsed this information.

Musicologist Nigel Burton wrote, " His style may be said to have developed, but it never really settled down.

Musicologist John Clapham writes that Smetana planned these works as " a compact series of episodes " drawn from their literary sources " and approached them as a dramatist rather than as a poet or philosopher.

Musicologist Rob Bowman called Soul Men " One of the greatest soul music albums of all time.

Musicologist Alfred Frankenstein, in a 1939 article for The Musical Quarterly, claimed to have identified seven pictures by catalogue number.

Musicologist George Pullen Jackson extended the term spiritual to a wider range of folk hymnody, as in his 1938 book White Spirituals in the Southern Uplands, but this does not appear to have been widespread usage previously.

Musicologist Dale Cockrell argues that early minstrel music mixed both African and European traditions and that distinguishing black and white urban music during the 1830s is impossible.

* Provine, Robert C. " Investigating a Musical Biography in Korea: The Theorist / Musicologist Pak Yŏn ( 1378 – 1458 )," Yearbook for Traditional Music, ( Volume 32, 2000 ): 1 – 15.

* St. Cross Church, Oxford: Sir John Stainer, Composer, Organist & Musicologist

Musicologist Alfred Einstein suggested, however, that a minuet in Piano Sonata in B-flat major, K. 498a, is the missing movement.

Musicologist David Gallagher might speak for many when he suggests that in these two opuses-their universe, music and history-are found the very best of Tveitt's qualities as a composer.

Prominent critic and noted musicologist Richard Taruskin called the work " anti-American, anti-Semitic and anti-bourgeois.

More recently, several art historians, most prominently musicologist Richard Taruskin, have applied the term " ontogeny becomes phylogeny " to the process of creating and recasting art history, often to assert a perspective or argument.

He became an advocate for electronic music and became friends with fellow composers Charles Dodge, Emmanuel Ghent and Richard Taruskin.

* Taruskin, Richard, Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions: A Biography of the Works Through Mavra, Volume 1 ( Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1996 ).

Music in the Western civilization by Piero Weiss and Richard Taruskin gives the following definition of virtuoso:

* Glinka, Mikhail by Richard Taruskin, in ' The New Grove Dictionary of Opera ', ed.

* Taruskin, Richard ( 2005 ).

* Taruskin, Richard ( 2005 ).

* Peter Schmelz: " Listening, Memory, and the Thaw: Unofficial Music and Society in the Soviet Union, 1956-1974 ," PhD Dissertation, University of California ( Richard Taruskin, advisor ), 2002.

Others ( e. g. Richard Taruskin ) have suggested that the book does reflect what Shostakovich told Volkov, but that it was Shostakovich's attempt to reinvent himself as a dissident to protect his image after his death.

Richard Taruskin of the University of California accused Adams of " romanticizing terrorists.

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However, according to musicologist Richard Taruskin, this proposition is a " dubious revelation, which no one had previously suspected either in Russia or in the West ".

* Taruskin, Richard The Oxford History of Western Music: Volume 1-The Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century.

The musicologist Richard Taruskin and the composer and music theorist George Perle are among the most vocal critics of this method.

* Taruskin, Richard, Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996 ).

" ( Richard Taruskin, New York Times )

In a widely read New York Times article, Richard Taruskin defended the orchestra's action, and denounced Adams and the opera for " romanticizing terrorists ".

* Richard Taruskin, Opera and Drama in Russia As Preached and Practiced in the 1860s.

Richard Taruskin has placed this opera in the historical context of the development of the realistic tradition in Russian opera.