Oratorical Thought and the Tragédie lyrique: A Consideration of Musical-Rhetorical Figures

01 October 1980 During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, numerous treatises on music made the analogy between musical composition and Greek and Latin theories of oratory and rhetoric.1 After all, the stirring of emotions and the qualifications of affects in...

Analyzing Improvised Jazz

01 October 1992 Now that jazz is achieving respectability in educational circles and analysts are applying their diverse techniques to improvised solos, it is appropriate to review what is being done in jazz analysis and to suggest a direction for the future. The...

The Entrepreneurship Curriculum for Music Students: Thoughts Towards a Consensus

03 October 2005 The increasing importance of professional development is one of the most dynamic trends emerging in the arts within higher education. Publicly funded institutions in particular are increasingly relying on entrepreneurship as a means to prepare students...

Preface to a Graduate Course in the History of Music Theory

01 October 1982 As a doctoral degree certifies (among other things) to a breadth of knowledge in the field, one requirement for the Ph.D. in music theory should be a scholarly course surveying the history of theory. To decide on this requirement, however, is easier...

Remixing Western Music History

01 May 2023 Abstract The problem faced by music historians of how (or whether) to impart reverence for music created through the institutions of imperialism, patriarchy, colonialism, and slavery is not a new one; nevertheless, as decolonizing initiatives take hold...

Musculoskeletal Pain/Discomfort in Collegiate Conductors: Incidence of Injury and Use of Personal and Instructional Prevention Strategies

11 April 2025 Abstract Musculoskeletal health in conductors is an underexplored topic within occupational studies of musicians and the pedagogical literature in conducting. The current mixed methods survey study investigated (1) the prevalence and severity of...

A Belated Account of the Reconstruction of a 20th-Century Masterpiece

01 October 1975 It may well be asked why, after almost 30 years, questions should arise regarding the reconstruction of Bela Bartok's posthumous Viola Concerto. After all, the composition has long ago occupied its proper place among the concertos of first rank in...

And Now We Begin—A Survey of Recent Theory Texts

01 October 1973 The 1960s were a time for reexamination of the aims, contents and methods of college courses designed to teach music theory, and, as a corollary, of the texts intended for those courses. Several factors contributed to the creation of a "crisis in the...

The Suzuki Violin School: Past, Present, and Possible Future

15 May 2024 Abstract According to the International Suzuki Association, by 2024, all ten books of the Suzuki violin method’s International Edition will have been published (https://internationalsuzuki.org/violin). Scholarship engaged with the method largely...

Source Music, Background Music, Fantasy and Reality in Early Sound Film

01 October 1997 The categories of background scoring and source music are logical ones into which all film music can be divided." 1 At first glance, Irene Kahn Atkins appears to be correct: source music and background music seem unassailable as the basic types for...

Two-Piano Music Around Beethoven's Time: Its Significance for the College Teacher

01 October 1977 College music instructors face an ongoing challenge to provide their students with experiences that will lead to growth in musicianship. An effective means to achieve this growth is through ensemble performance. Such active music making with others is...

A Survey of Recent Publications Relating to Nineteenth-Century Music and Musicians

01 October 1969 Anyone who has taught a course on romantic music deplores the scarcity of suitable texts. Not only is there no outstanding survey of the period, but with few exceptions we cannot even resort to completely reliable studies of particular genres or...

Review Essay of Books on Choral Music

31 August 2006 Prescriptions for Choral Excellence: Tone, Text, Dynamic Leadership, by Shirlee Emmons and Constance Chase. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 334 p. ISBN 0-19-518242-1. Hearing Bach's Passions, by Daniel R. Melamed. Oxford and New...

Music Therapy in Handel's England: Browne's Medicina Musica (1729)

01 October 1985 The development of contemporary uses for music in therapy is generally attributed to the twentieth century or even the late nineteenth century; however, a text on the subject was published in 1729. The book, Medicina Musica, or, a Mechanical Essay on...

Writing About LGBTQ Issues

01 March 2009 These days, it seems everywhere one turns, issues and themes related to sexuality are in evidence. Movies from the unlikeliest of sources are circulating the country on gay themes—A Jihad for Love—that deals with the problems faced by gay men and...

The Decline of Serialism and the New Romanticism: Control and Chance in the New Music

01 October 1979 The wisest thing to do is to open one's ears immediately and hear a sound suddenly before one's thinking has a chance to turn it into something logical, abstract, or symbolical.1 The mention of the word "romanticism" has, for the greater portion of our...

Assessment-Driven Collaborative Learning

01 October 2009 We Need To Change The Way We Teach There is no way around it! We need to change the way we teach higher education courses, whether in the humanities or the sciences. The reasons are many and varied. First, the time available to courses has drastically...

World Music and Ethnomusicology - Understanding the Differences

30 April 1992 Introduction Many Music Departments and Schools of Music in the United States have increasingly been expanding their curricula by developing ensembles, 'courses, and even programs that emphasize non-Western musics. Thankfully, to my knowledge no such...

The Toscanini Memorial Archives at The New York Public Library

01 October 1977 It may seem perverse to begin a report like this with one negative, let alone two, but experience has shown that it is wise to correct from the start two common misapprehensions about the Toscanini Memorial Archives. First, the Toscanini Memorial...

World Music - Past, Present, and Future

01 May 1992 Origin and Background of the Terminology To my knowledge, the origin of the term world music dates to the early 1960s at Wesleyan University, when I thought it up in order to distinguish a new Ph.D. program there from ethnomusicology programs already...