frankev@ukzn.ac.za
Details
- Position Associate Professor;
- Discipline Music;
- CampusHoward College Campus
- Office AddressFrancis Stock Building, 2nd Floor, Room 02-027
Degrees Held
- DPhil (Oxford)
- MMus (UCT)
- BMus (UCT)
Research Interests
- Renaissance Polyphony
- South African Orchestral Music
- 19th-Century Symphony
Teaching Interests
- Musicology
- Music Theory
- Aural Training
Selected
Publications and Creative Output
Books
Chapters in Books
Journal Articles
Books
- Palestrina’s Imitation Masses: A Study of Compositional Procedures, Rome: Palestrina Foundation, 2007.
Chapters in Books
- “Borrowing and Transformation Procedures in Palestrina’s Masses” in Palestrina e L’Europa: Atti Del III Convegno Internazionale di Studi, (Rome: Fondazione G. Pierluigi da Palestrina, 2006), pp.169 – 218.
- “A Cross-Cultural Relationship? Musical Imitation and Comparable Procedures in Literature and Painting in the Renaissance” in Tis all in peeces, all cohaerence gone: Change and Medieval and Renaissance Studies, edited by Rosemary Gray and Estelle Mare (Pretoria: Sigma Press, 1994), pp. 121 – 130.
Journal Articles
- “Roelof Temmingh’s Neo-Palestrinian, A Cappella Settings of Three Latin Liturgical Texts” – Musical Times, 160: 1947 (2019), 73 – 88
- “Palestrina’s and Porta’s Mass Settings of Descendit Angelus Dominus: A Comparison” – Italian Studies in Southern Africa, 32:1 (2019), 1 – 26.
- “Klatzow Reinvented: From Modernist, Non-Tonal Activist to Tonal Art-Music Champion” – Musical Times, vol. 157, no. 1937 (2016): 87 – 104.
- “South African Orchestral Music: Five Exponents” – Acta Musicologica (2012): 85 – 123.
- “Performance Practice of Indigenous Song and Dance Music of Botswana: The Case of Borankana, Mokomoto, and Setapa” – Musicus, 40, no. 2 (2012): 3-10, published 2014.
- “Roelof Temmingh, Exponent of South African Art Music: A Tribute and Work-List” – Musicus, vol. 39, no. 2 (2011): 9 – 18.
- “Structure and Context in the Orchestral Compositions of Hendrick Hofmeyr” – Musicus, vol. 35, no. 2 (2007): 57 – 71.
- “Mahler’s Reorchestration of Schumann’s ‘Spring’ Symphony, Op.38: Background, Analysis, Intentions” – Acta Musicologica, LXXVIII (2006): 75 – 110.
- “Chronology in Sixteenth-Century Masses” – Musicus (2000): 31 – 36.
- “Borrowing Procedures in Late 16th-Century Imitation Masses and their Implications for our View of ‘Parody’ or Imitatio” – Studien zur Musikwissenschaft, Beihefte der Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Ősterreich (1998): 7 – 34.
- “Imitatio as Aesthetic Principle and Structural Procedure in the Renaissance” – Musicus (1997): 57 – 65.
- “The Analysis of Texture in the Imitation Masses of Palestrina” – South African Journal of Musicology (1996): 19 – 48.
Community Involvement
- Presented pre-concert talks on behalf of the Friends of Music for the Kwa Zulu Natal Philharmonic Symphony Concerts.
- Presented Music Appreciation Courses for Adult Education.
- Community music lectures for the Natal Decorative Arts Society and for the Rotary Organization.
Teaching Expertise
- Musicology
- Music Theory
- Aural training
Student Supervision
- Sean Schultz (Masters)