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Music and Sound Studies Colloquium: Rachel Mundy, Style Criticism and the Song of the Humpback Whale

Music and Sound Studies Colloquium: Rachel Mundy, Style Criticism and the Song of the Humpback Whale

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The scientific discovery of humpback whale song in 1971 has striking similarities to a mode of music analysis fostered at Cornell University in the 1950s under musicologist Donald Jay Grout. This talk turns to Grout and one of his students, Katy Payne, to explore the musical passion that made it possible to hear beyond human musicality. By telling this story, Mundy is describing the origins of a history that has not yet come to pass: the reinvent...

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Cornell University

Ithaca, NY, United States

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