Assuming andrew is required, and allen is required, the following 24 results were found.
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T’filah (The Prayer) by Lera Auerbach. Andrew J. Allen, alto saxophone. September 9, 2024
9, 2024, Max Noah Recital Hall, Georgia College and State University Milledgeville, GA. Read the review authors: Andrew Allen author_ids: 2696 authors: Andrew Allen author_ids: 2696
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Paying Attention to Music and Baseball: Listening to the Savannah Bananas
In 1956, Ford Frick, the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, tried to woo music fans to pay more attention to baseball. Writing in Music Journal, Frick hoped that his “comparison of music and baseball should be of interest to devotees of both of...
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Review: T’filah (The Prayer) by Lera Auerbach. Andrew J. Allen, alto saxophone. September 9, 2024
Andrew J. Allen, in his performance of T’filah by Lera Auerbach, highlights beautiful lyricism and impeccable musicianship, proving with great sophistication that the piece is as effective on saxophone as it is on violin. First composed for solo violin...
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A Primer for Atonal Set Theory
A Primer for Atonal Set Theory1 Atonal set theory has a bad reputation. Like Schenkerian analysis in its earlier days, set theory has had an air of the secret society about it, with admission granted only to those who possess the magic password, a...
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Abstract While serial music is a mainstay of college instruction in both music theory and music history courses, many people still struggle to find a human connection to the compositional practice. This article explores metaphorical connections between...
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Active Learning in the Music School: Seizing the Zeitgeist
Education, March 8, 2024. https://www.chronicle.com/article/ can-this-university-change-its-teaching-culture authors: Andrew Allen author_ids: 2696 authors: Andrew Allen author_ids: 2696
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Wax and Wire. 2019. Latitude 49
a perfect balance of precision and heart. For any lover of contemporary music, this is a must-have album. authors: Andrew Allen author_ids: 2696 authors: Andrew Allen author_ids: 2696
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Empirical Reality Versus the Systems Malady
Colleges and universities are known worldwide as centers for formal research as well as for informal thought about “what is” and “what is not.” They don’t always fulfill this mission with precision, but the search persists. Unfortunately, although...
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Introduction: Genesis of the Program In teaching composition, I frequently say to my students, when they do not know what to write next in a piece, “Go back and look at what you have already written. Chances are that the idea for what to do next will...
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A Theory of Pitch-Class-Set Extension in Atonal Music
Over years of teaching pitch-class-set theory and analysis as part of undergraduate twentieth-century theory courses, I have often reflected (and heard perceptive students remark) on an apparent shortcoming of the system. At that stage of their...
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What Would Beethoven Google? Primary Sources in the Twenty-First Century Classroom
Abstract Scholars rely on primary sources as the foundation of credible research. Sometimes, however, the incorporation of primary sources as fodder for learning in the undergraduate music classroom is overlooked, and instructors miss the opportunity...
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From Settler Colonialism to Standing Rock: Hearing Native Voices for Peace
Abstract The water protectors of the Standing Rock Sioux captured public attention with their opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline. Yet their actions are only the most recent in a long history of indigenous resistance to resource extraction and...
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Musicomp 76 and the State of DARMS
Few readers of this journal would question that computers now have many roles to play in modern musical studies. The value of a computer-generated bibliographic tool such as RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is surely obvious to anyone who has used it...
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Your Turn to Lead: Cultivating Student Leadership in Music Theory and Aural Skills
Introduction Universities and colleges aspire to equip students for leadership in their professions, and institutions frequently include leadership education in their statements of mission and purpose. According to Susan Komives and Matthew Sowcik...
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And Now We Begin—A Survey of Recent Theory Texts
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...
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EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS Scholarship and Research Sarah Allen (2022-2025) Southern Methodist University Clifton Boyd (2022-2025) New York University Melissa Brunkan (2022-2025) University of Oregon Alfredo Colman (2021-2024) Baylor University James Day...
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Author-Supplied Metadata for Music Composition Dissertations in ProQuest
Abstract This study analyzes 910 records in ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (PQDT) for doctoral dissertations in music composition completed 2004-2013, representing PhD, DMA, and DA documents from sixty-six institutions in the United States. Focusing...
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“Oh My Son!”: The Musical Origins and Function of King David’s Lamentation
Introduction In his 1981 article “Prince Henry as Absalom in David’s Lamentations” Irving Godt examined a group of seventeenth-century English settings based on King David’s laments for his son Absalom and his friend Jonathan.1 On the basis of the...
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A Multi-Level Approach to More Secure Memorization
Memorizing is essential for the solo pianist, thanks to a long tradition dating back to the nineteenth century. Requiring solo piano recitals to be performed from memory, however, is not without controversy. While memorizing comes naturally to some...
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American Music in Music Courses
Virtually everyone in my family is a musician, professional or amateur, and I was brought up with many American works in our daily music-making. No point was made of it particularly; it was simply assumed that American music was an equal, valuable, and...
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