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San Francisco Bay Area accordionist
"Parlare di fisarmonica significa inoltrarsi in un argomento molto più vasto di una semplice analisi dello strumento sotteso a questo sostantivo: è bene ricordare che per fisarmonica si intende, prima di tutto, una classe di strumenti ben... more
This article analyzes the recorded song choices of a variety of regional and inter/national conjunto artists, using social network visualizations to demonstrate an inverse relationship between location and techniques of modernism. In... more
Italian immigrants represented the vast majority of composers for the French accordion and the bal musette dance tradition. This overview covers the origins, development and peak of bal musette in primarily Paris and its environs.... more
The goal of this paper is to describe Cajun accordion playing in the context of Cajun music history. Following a brief description of the Cajun accordion and the other accordions frequently used in Louisiana, I expand upon what I mean by... more
Questo articolo pubblicato in Cuadernos de italianistica cubana a cura dell’Ambasciata italiana in Avana, Cuba, Aprile 2015, desidera essere un contributo agli studi organologici sulla fisarmonica, strumento musicale che nei secoli ha... more
This dissertation performs analyses of and compositions in three musical traditions that have received little attention in the English-speaking literature: Russian vocal folk polyphony (as described by theorist Aleksandr Kastalskiy in the... more
San Francisco Bay Area composer, accordionst
Steve Balich's contribution to the vitality of the accordion in the San Francisco bay area. This summary was used for his obituary as published in the upcoming online November 2017 issue of the monthly newsletter from Petosa Accordion,... more
In Venezuela there are two agricultural villages founded by German immigrants, one in the first half and the other at the end of the 19th century: Colonia Tovar and El Jarillo. Up to 1964, the colonies’ inhabitants lived quite isolated,... more
Québecois accordionist in California
For bass clarinet, trombone and accordion
Sei scene per Due Bayan, Fisarmonica Elettronica e Suoni Elettronici
A combination of button accordion and bajo sexto, conjunto originated in the Texas-Mexico borderlands as a popular dance music and became a powerful form of regional identity. Today, listeners and musicians around the world have embraced... more
Analyse of Berio's Sequenza: Pitch, theme, layering; Number games; relation to Popular music
(NB: This one is about me, not by me) Discusses accordion playing for the local Farmer's Market in Arlington, with references to my research in French medieval and American colonial liturgical arts.
Zbiór artykułów naukowych z I Międzynarodowej Konferencji Naukowej "Tradycyjne instrumenty ludowe w kulturach Europy XXI wieku", 27-29.06.2015 w Łobzie.
The musical venues beyond the official stages at the festival. Where to enjoy the festival in the surrounding area.
Sheri Mignano Crawford received an honorary status as this year's director of the Cotati Accordion Festival. This is the 29th year of the festival and Sheri's role as coordinator for the Student Scholarships and Student Competition has... more
A lifetime as a full-time professional accordionist.
I updated Mike Corino's bio for the 2014 Cotati Accordion Festival. (By-line is missing) He was elected as its Honorary Director of the 24th annual festival in Cotati, CA. This article is an update of a biographical sketch originally... more
Sonoma county accordion history