The RILM Project: Charting the Seas of Modern Musicological Literature

01 October 2000 system, see Heather Platt, "RILM in the 1990s," Fontes Artis Musicae 43, no. 3 (July-September 1996): 298-302. 15Alan Green, RILM Abstracts Data Collection System (Rev 1.2) [formatted data transfer software], 28 August 1996, rev. 15 November 1998,...

[i]Ethnomusicology Scholarship and Teaching[/i] - Ethnomusicology and Childhood: Studying Children’s Music in the Field

25 August 2014 Abstract In the field of ethnomusicology, the study of children’s music has long been overlooked which leads to a lack of understanding of the complex contexts of children’s musical worlds. Therefore it is imperative that we explore the historical and...

Jenny Lind and P. T. Barnum: A Success Story of Music, Business, and Philanthropy

20 September 2019 Abstract Soprano Jenny Lind (1820–87), known as the “Swedish Nightingale,” toured the United States in 1850 under the auspices of “America’s Greatest Showman” and self-proclaimed “Prince of Humbug,” P. T. Barnum (1810–91). The tour was a phenomenal...

"Broadway the Hard Way:" Techniques of Allusion in the Music of Frank Zappa

01 October 1995 Frank Zappa might be described as a cultural guerilla. He sees that the popular arts are propagandistic in the broad sense—even when they masquerade as rebellion they lull us into fantasy and homogenize our responses. So he infiltrates the machine and...

[i]Ethnomusicology Scholarship and Teaching[/i] - “The Song Is You”: From External to Internal in Ethnomusicological Performance

26 August 2014 Abstract In this article I examine the developing role performance has played in ethnomusicological research and teaching from the early days of our field until the present. Until well into the 1950s ethnomusicologists primarily concerned themselves...

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...

". . . Our Daily Bread"

01 October 1972 There is a greater need than pianoforte teachers and singing teachers, and that is a numerous company of writers and talkers who shall teach the people how to listen to music so that it shall not pass through their heads like a vast tonal...

Performance Inquiry and Cognitive Science: A Search for Common Ground

01 October 2008 Introduction The last decade has offered a surge in scholarship on music performance. Scholars interested in music performance can draw from a range of perspectives. Ethnomusicologists examine the performed activity of music1 as a social and cultural...

[i]Pierrot lunaire[/i] at 95: Arnold Schoenberg’s Musical Hybrid and Twentieth-Century Vocal Chamber Music

01 October 2009 On October 16, 1912, at the Choralien Saal in Berlin, Arnold Schoenberg conducted the premier performance of one of the twentieth century’s most influential works of music. From its origin as a straightforward commission for a musical melodrama...

Paideia con Salsa: Charles Keil, Groovology, and the Undergraduate Music Curriculum

14 September 2015 Despite being a professor in American Studies at SUNY-Buffalo for most of his academic life, Charles (Charlie) Keil’s (b. 1939) career was dominated by an interest in music and music education. His scholarly contributions took many forms, such as...