The Fairbank Collection

01 October 1976 The Newberry Library, Chicago, contains a distinguished music collection, rare book, manuscript, and print holdings, and archives relevant both to the United States (and its Indian populations) and to the city of Chicago. Thus it is understandable that...

Jocelyne Binet’s [i]Cycle de Mélodies: [/i]Unearthing a Forgotten Song Cycle, Lecture-Recital by Matthew Hoch

20 September 2018 “Jocelyne Binet’s Cycle de Mélodies: Unearthing a Forgotten Song Cycle” is a research presentation and performance by Dr. Matthew Hoch, Associate Professor of Voice at Auburn University in Alabama. The presentation is available in the form of a...

The Ethnomusicology of Music Learning and Teaching

01 October 2003 Ethnomusicology, for at least the last forty years, has been primarily an idiographic discipline. That is, ethnomusicologists' research has focused on the description of particular music systems and music cultures at the expense of either nomothetic...

Redeeming Alma: The Songs of Alma Mahler

01 October 2004 Introduction History has not always been kind to Alma Mahler. Upon reading her obituary in December, 1964, the politically-incorrect songwriter Tom Lehrer penned these words about her relationship with Gustav Mahler: Their marriage, however, was...

Transforming Postwar East Germany through Song: Paul Dessau’s Lieder composed for Lin Jaldati, Lecture-Recital by Michael Hix, Baritone

01 April 2019 Abstract The rise of East German musical culture after the devastation of WWII is an intriguing facet of contemporary European history. Of particular interest are the Jewish artists, including composer Paul Dessau (1896-1979) and Yiddish folk singer...

To the Bards: The Choral Works of Estonian Composer Ester Mägi

01 October 2009 Introduction: Choral Music in Estonia The importance of song and choral music to the cultural life of countries in the Baltic States has led to an abundance of choral music and choirs with varied voicings and purpose. From casual singing at the...

Family Values: The Lomax Family and American Folksong

01 October 1998 The Alan Lomax Collection: Sampler. Rounder Records CD 1700. The Alan Lomax Collection: Southern Journey, Volumes 1-13. Rounder Records CD 1701-1713. The Last Cavalier: The Life and Times of John A. Lomax, by Nolan Porterfield. Urbana: University of...

“Shot Into the Air Like a Rocket”: Climax in the Lieder of Alma Mahler

01 May 2023 Abstract The appropriation of musical climax as an act of subversion became a common claim in feminist analysis of music by women composers. The focus on the tension and release in Western classical music has been called out as overtly masculine 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...

Music and World Events Since 1945: A Graduate Seminar

17 March 2015 Introduction The course, Music and World Events Since 1945, is a graduate multidisciplinary seminar centering on works by major composers in direct response to world events such as war, disease, protest, human rights movements, and environmental...

Uncovering and Teaching the Process of Analysis to Undergraduate Music Theory Students

20 September 2018 Abstract This article reports on the results of a three-year teaching and learning inquiry into pedagogical strategies for music analysis in a second-year required music theory course. I used Pace and Middendorf’s Decoding the Disciplines framework as...

“Oh My Son!”: The Musical Origins and Function of King David’s Lamentation

01 October 2009 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...

Not Without a Grievance: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the Suffrage Movement, and the Reception of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

01 October 2024 Abstract In an 1882 article in the American suffrage newspaper, The Woman’s Journal, Thomas Wentworth Higginson expressed outrage that the Mendelssohn family had discouraged Fanny Hensel from composing and that her music had been published under Felix...

[i]Alma Mahler, Muse to Genius: From Fin-de-sièle Vienna to Hollywood's Heyday[/i], by Karen Monson

01 October 1986 Alma Mahler, Muse to Genius: From Fin-de-sièle Vienna to Hollywood's Heyday, by Karen Monson. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983. ISBN: 978-0395322130 Alma Mahler-Werfel (1879-1964) was a beautiful, intelligent woman. She became successively the wife of...

Pygmalions of Pop: Reinterpreting Jazz and Rock Standards

01 October 1989 Pygmalions of Pop: Reinterpreting Jazz and Rock Standards1 The pop musician's practice of reinterpreting a tune previously recorded by another artist is common to both jazz and rock. Jazz musicians traditionally look to the vast reserves of the Tin Pan...

Feminist Scholarship and the Field of Musicology: II

01 October 1990 In Part I of this article (which appeared in College Music Symposium 29 [1989], 81-92), I assessed the impact of feminist methods and perspectives on the field of American musicology and summarized what we have learned from the various studies about...

Music Improvisation in Higher Education

11 November 2013 of the North Central United States.” PhD diss., University of Minnesota, 1999. ProQuest (AAT 9935017). authors: Anna Song author_ids: 2090 authors: Anna Song author_ids: 2090

Redefining Music Appreciation: Exploring the Power of Music

01 June 2015 Abstract How might we create a world empowered by music? How might we change our culture to accept music as an innate intelligence and assist others in discovering the joy, enchantment, mystery, and power of music in their daily lives? Answers to these...

Video and Transcription: Candace Magner on the Life and Legacy of Barbara Strozzi (1619–1677)

20 September 2019 Candace Magner on the Life and Legacy of Barbara Strozzi (1619–1677). Candace Magner, scholar, Paul M. Patinka, interviewer, with student performances by sopranos Shirlyn Davenport, Jasmine Fernandez, Paige Henserling, Erin McAdams, Elise Miller, and...

Women Composers: Reminiscence and History

01 October 1975 The current wave of interest in matters relating to women has sparked a series of projects about women in the arts. Women and Creativity, Women in Music, and other panel presentations have proliferated. For the most part these are still in the inchoate...