Students Evaluate Music Theory Courses: A Reddit Community Survey

20 September 2018 Abstract Undergraduate music programs are currently reexamining the place and value of theory study. While some have argued for this core subject to be dissolved and absorbed by related courses, others defend that music theory is a non-negotiable core...

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...

Letter to the Editor

01 October 1997 20th-century's finest composers/conductors/performers/linguists/theoreticians /teachers/music orthographers. authors: Carl S. Miller author_ids: 984 authors: Carl S. Miller author_ids: 984

Zoltán Kodály As Musician-Educator Exemplar: A Critique

01 October 1980 I. BACKGROUND AND HISTORICAL CONSIDERATIONS Throughout the annals of recorded history relatively few composers of outstanding merit and magnitude have decidedly concerned themselves with the general musical education of the young—that is those masses...

Musical Pattern Perception

01 October 1979 How the human mind structures its complex environment is a topic that has been explored for generations by individuals from a wide variety of disciplines. Musicians now seem to be generally aware that pattern perception is highly relevant to their...

Is It Possible to Sing the Prologue to Orlando di Lasso’s [i]Prophetiae Sibyllarum[/i] in Tune?

05 June 2013 Abstract All tuning systems except equal temperament (ET) have small irreconcilable mathematical discrepancies. In particular, just intonation (JI), espoused by Zarlino and other Renaissance theorists as an ideal tuning system, was already known in the...

[i]Erlkönig:[/i] Goethe, Schubert, and Resurrecting the Son

01 May 2021 Abstract The poetic interpretation of Goethe’s Erlking (persona) varies among music scholars, yet most agree that whatever he is or represents, the Erlking personifies the dark side of human nature and is responsible, directly or at least indirectly,...

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...

The Indian Music Debate and "American" Music in the Progressive Era

01 October 1997 A little over a hundred years ago, composers and music critics in the United States launched a debate about the viability of an idiomatically American music and whether its roots could be found in folk music. One of the roots under discussion was music...

Voice Leading and Harmony as Expressive Devices in the Early Music of the Beatles: She Loves You

01 October 1993 A recent issue of Popular Music contains a review of Tim Riley's armchair listening guide to the Beatles, Tell Me Why, that concludes with the following statement: "No amount of academic analysing could capture the sheer geniality, innocence and barely...

[i]Where the Dark and Light Folks Meet: Race and the Mythology, Politics and Business of Jazz[/i], by Randall Sandke

01 October 2012 Where the Dark and Light Folks Meet: Race and the Mythology, Politics and Business of Jazz, by Randall Sandke. Scarecrow, 2010. 275 pages with index and notes. Clothbound; ISBN 978-0-8108-6652-2; $40. Randall Sandke's Where the Dark and Light Folks...