Critic and musicologist Robert Palmer said their endurance and relevance stems from being " rooted in traditional verities, in rhythm-and-blues and soul music " while " more ephemeral pop fashions have come and gone ".

Nevertheless, musicologist Timothy Johnson, in his 2011 book about Nixon in China, noted " the result of the collaboration betrays none of these disagreements among its craters who successfully blended their differing points of view into a very satisfyingly cohesive whole ".

" Even today " wrote musicologist Horace Boyer in 1983, " ministers quote his texts in the midst of their sermons as if they were poems, as indeed they are.

Poet composer and musicologist, Balamuralikrishna has restored the trinity's composition to their original whole.

Around Easter 1914 he met the Viennese musicologist Franz Haböck, author of the extremely important book Die Kastraten und ihre Gesangskunst ( The Castrati and their Art of Singing, published in Berlin in 1927 ), who had plans to cast Moreschi in concerts reviving the repertoire of the great eighteenth-century castrato Farinelli.

They perform worldwide the Gullah music of the Georgia coast, and have been touring since the early 1900s ; the folklorist and musicologist Alan Lomax discovered the Singers on a 1959-60 collecting trip, and helped to bring their music to new audiences.

His work, along with the efforts of others such as musicologist Irwin Chusid of WFMU radio, has allowed these scraps to reach a level of notoriety unthinkable in their own time.

Produced and directed by award-winning filmmaker Jeff Scheftel, and executive produced by University of Hawaii musicologist Jay Junker, the film is now available on DVD, featuring extensive interviews with Ira Tucker, Sr., archival footage, and following the current group as they perform in numerous venues and rehearse under Mr. Tucker's spirited guidance, in their hometown of Philadelphia, and across the vast landscape of America.

French musicologist and writer Philippe Beaussant described the composer's work thus: " Though his compositions are skilfully written, their mastery is not obviously admirable as such.

While critics have frequently dismissed the opera as a facile melodrama with confusions of plot — musicologist Joseph Kerman famously called it a " shabby little shocker "— the power of its score and the inventiveness of its orchestration have been widely acknowledged.

Of the musical themes suggested as the Enigma, one of the most frequently proposed is the Scottish song " Auld Lang Syne ", which has been favoured by Elgar's friend Richard Powell ( husband of Dorabella ), the musicologist Roger Fiske, and the writer Eric Sams.

* Composer & musicologist Kyle Gann's Nancarrow Page Gann, author of " The Music of Conlon Nancarrow ", is one of the current authorities on the composer's work.

Although the musicologist Watkins Shaw dismisses Jennens as " a conceited figure of no special ability ", Donald Burrows has written: " of Jennens's musical literacy there can be no doubt ".

Although Messiah is not in any particular key, Handel's tonal scheme has been summarised by the musicologist Anthony Hicks as " an aspiration towards D major ", the key musically associated with light and glory.

The musicologist Karl Gustav Fellerer, who examined several such works testifies that Jommelli's piece, though being just " a rigid school work ", could well rank among the best admission pieces now stored in the Bolognese Accademia Filarmonica.

While musicologist Philip Gossett notes that between 1962 and 1990 " some seventy opera houses have included the work in one or more seasons ", it was not until the Met's 1990 revival after almost 100 years that a production based on a new critical edition was mounted.

On 20 September 1946, a highly critical article by musicologist Izraíl Nestyev, " Remarks on the Work of D. Shostakovich: Some Thoughts Occasioned by His Ninth Symphony ", was published:

The explicit musical connection between Cretan music and Byzantine chant was documented in the seminal study " La chanson grecque ", by Swiss musicologist and archivist Samuel Baud-Bovy.

The eighteenth-century musicologist Charles Burney described Nicolini as " this great singer, and still greater actor ", while Joseph Addison labelled him " the greatest performer in dramatic Music that is now living or that perhaps ever appeared on a stage ".

The letter does not specify to what exactly Breen objected, but musicologist Daniel Goldmark speculates that it was the idea of Heaven being run by blacks and the cartoon's implication that Heaven holds a place for " gamblers, dancers, drinkers, and, above all else, jazz fans ", making it " even more threatening to white viewers.

Mayra Martinez, a Cuban musicologist, writes that " the term salsa was used to obscure the Cuban base, the music's history or part of its history in Cuba.

To musicologist John Clapham, the cycle presents " a cross-section of Czech history and legend and impressions of its scenery, and ... conveys vividly to us Smetana's view of the ethos and greatness of the nation.

Alejo Carpentier y Valmont ( December 26, 1904 – April 24, 1980 ) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous " boom " period.

In 1950 critic and musicologist Irving Kolodin said about the Ballade in F minor of Chopin played by Moiseiwitsch: " A featherweight touch in the opening section of this work, an apt feeling for its " once upon a time " narrative quality give Moiseiwitsch pre-eminence among present day interpreters ...", thus summing up the sensitivity of the playing by Benno Moiseiwitsch.

For instance, musicologist Ludmila Mikheyeya ( who is also Ivan Sollertinsky's daughter in law ) maintains that Shostakovich played the theme and its variations for his students before the war with Germany began.

The work was recently unearthed by Berkeley musicologist Davitt Moroney and identified as a parody mass, Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno, and received its first modern performance at the Royal Albert Hall during the London Proms on 17 July 2007 by the BBC Singers and The Tallis Scholars conducted by Moroney.

The original idea for establishing a museum at 25 Brook Street to commemorate its original and most notable occupant first occurred to the musicologist Stanley Sadie in 1959, at a party held there by the fashion company Viyella to commemorate the bicentenary of Handel's death.

" The musicologist Michael Kennedy writes " One cannot call it a motto-theme, but it is an idée fixe, and after its first quiet statement, the full orchestra repeat it fortissimo.

Of the work, musicologist Alfred Einstein wrote in his 1949 opus The Italian Madrigal: " it is ... a spiritual counterpart to the cycles from the great epics of Ariosto and Tasso, an old man's work, comparable in its artistry, its dimensions, its asceticism only to the Musical Offering and the Art of Fugue.

This attitude, claims musicologist Solomon Volkov, had long typified the St. Petersburg Conservatory and the majority of its alumni.

Robert Winans found the song on 49 % of the minstrel playbills he surveyed from the 1843 – 1847 period ( behind only " Miss Lucy Long "), and research by musicologist William J. Mahar suggests that it was behind only " Mary Blane " and " Lucy Long " in its frequency of publication in antebellum songsters.

According to the musicologist Curt Sachs Gusikov performed in garden concerts, variety shows, and as a novelty at symphony concerts.

However we advise DJs to have a lawyer and musicologist present at all times to confirm the non repetitive nature of the music in the event of police harassment.

However, the opening of Harriet Cohen's private papers and the research into them by scholars, such as the Norwegian musicologist Thomas Elnaes, indicates that such a link is at best speculative.

These occasions were in the face of a general indifference to the music ; writing in the centenary year, the musicologist Deryck Cooke opined that at that time, " to declare oneself a confirmed Delian is hardly less self-defamatory than to admit to being an addict of cocaine and marihuana ".

* Choruses: Padre Martini, the erudite musicologist who corresponded with Rameau, affirmed that " the French are excellent at choruses ," obviously thinking of Rameau himself.

Featured participants included Nuria Schoenberg ( daughter of Arnold Schoenberg and widow of Luigi Nono ), musicologist James Harrison, the opera conductor Roberto Abbado, violinist Ivry Gitlis, composers Salvatore Sciarrino, Lorenzo Ferrero, and Andrea Liberovici, poet Edoardo Sanguineti, popular singer-songwriters Teresa De Sio, Gianna Nannini, and Gino Paoli, rock and jazz artists Peppe Servalo and Peppe D ' Argenzio of the Piccola Orchestra Avion Travel, and administrators Anna Cammarano ( director of classical music at RAI Trade ), Gennaro di Benedetto ( superintendent of the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa ), and Joseph Hussek ( director of the artistic programme at the Salzburg Festival ).

His fondness for " Humpty Dumptyish " language may irritate at times, but overall Tovey's achievement is impressive: very few commentators have been able to communicate clearly with a non-specialist readership at the same time as revealing so much that is of interest to the trained musician and musicologist.

The musicologist Denis Arnold writes, " He was already a very successful opera composer and with his duties at the Mendicanti he must have had enough to do.

This was the opinion of at least one prominent Italian musicologist and critic, Fausto Terrefranca, who, in a 1912 pamphlet entitled Giaccomo Puccini and International Opera, accused Puccini of " commercialism " and of having deserted Italian traditions.

This same year, Novák became embroiled in a series of culturo-political battles in Prague between his Conservatory-based faction and that of Zdeněk Nejedlý, a critic and musicologist at Prague University.

The terms additive and divisive originate with Curt Sachs's book Rhythm and Tempo ( 1953 ) ( Agawu 2003, 86 ), while the term akshak rhythm was introduced for the former concept at about the same time by Constantin Brăiloiu ( 1951 ), in agreement with the Turkish musicologist Ahmed Adnan Saygun ( Fracile 2003, 198 ).

The musicologist Nino Pirrotta argues that the Apollo ending was part of the original plan for the work, but was not staged at the premiere because the small room which hosted the event could not contain the theatrical machinery that this ending required.

Music Directors of la Monnaie have always played a major role in the musical life of Belgium, since the orchestra also performed in regularly organised concerts, and the quality of the orchestra reached a peak at the end of the 19th century under the baton of composer and musicologist Sylvain Dupuis.

* David Evans ( musicologist ), musicologist at the University of Memphis

Eero Aarne Pekka Tarasti ( born Helsinki, September 27, 1948 ) is a Finnish musicologist and semiotician, currently serving as Professor of Musicology at the University of Helsinki.

He grew up in Bucharest, Romania, and started playing the cello and piano at age ten, following in his father's footsteps ( Eugen Pricope was a conductor and musicologist ).

Anna Czekanowska-Kuklińska ( born June 25, 1929 in Lwów, Poland, now Lviv, Ukraine ) is a Polish musicologist and ethnographer, professor at the University of Warsaw.

Austrian musicologist Otto Erich Deutsch, who studied all available letters and documents about the composer, arrived at the following conclusion about what the composer called himself: " In Italy, from 1770, Mozart called himself ' Wolfgango Amadeo ', and from about 1777, ' Wolfgang Amadè '.

Joscelyn Godwin ( born 16 January 1945 at Kelmscott, Oxfordshire, England ) is a composer, musicologist and translator, known for his work on ancient music, paganism and music in the occult.

William was trained as a musicologist and linguist at Oxford.

* Biography of Anna Guarini, by Laurie Stras, musicologist at the University of Southampton.