Assuming charles is required, and joseph is required, the following 86 results were found.
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Preface to a Graduate Course in the History of Music Theory
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...
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Tell Me A Story: Teaching Music Composition Through Narrative Design
Abstract Since student composers with non-classical backgrounds are more common than ever in college music programs, creating new strategies for teaching them concepts of form and structure presents a challenge for the composition teacher. The use of...
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The First Movement of Beethoven's Opus 132 and the Classical Style
The First Movement of Beethoven's Opus 132 and the Classical Style* The works of Beethoven's last period, the years 1813-27 broadly defined, have come to occupy a special place in the history of Western music. They are thought to contain some of the...
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Julius Weiss: Scott Joplin's First Piano Teacher
In writing musical biographies and in tracing the influence of one musical generation upon another, musicologists have traditionally spent considerable time and effort to investigate teacher-student relationships. Until recently this seems to have been...
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Robert Schumann's Album for the Young and the Coming of Age of Nineteenth-Century Piano Pedagogy
In 1843, Robert Schumann noted that his highly original if slightly bizarre piano cycles of the 1830s had not endeared him to the public or to his publishers. He regretfully conceded that the financial responsibilities of supporting a wife and family...
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Music Historiography in the Classroom
For the teacher of music history, no less than the teacher of any other subject, the selection of materials and methods for class use is an important decision. For the beginning instructor, the problem is especially acute, as he or she has no...
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Abstract In this article, the authors put forward a Conceptual Model of Independent Studio Production (ISP) in undergraduate music technology courses. Independent Studio Production reflects the increasingly multifaceted nature of the recording...
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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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Americans have been writing about the history of music, and about the history of American music, for almost a hundred years. As we approach the centenary we might well ask ourselves such questions as these: How have American music historians regarded...
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Abstract Following the end of World War I, Marcelle Soulage (1894-1970) engaged in an intense effort to launch her career as a composer in Paris through performing her music as a pianist at different salons, musical societies, and on the burgeoning...
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Leopold Kozeluch and the Viennese [i]Quatuor Concertant[/i]
In 1790, the year before Haydn's triumph in London and Mozart's death in Vienna, Ernst Gerber proclaimed that Leopold Kozeluch was Europe's favorite composer: Leopold Kozeluch is without question with young and old the generally most loved among our...
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Paul Hindemith's Philosophy of Music and the Role of [i]The Four Temperaments[/i]
Paul Hindemith formulated his philosophy of music upon two "basic and unalterable musical values," the one, Augustinian, the other, Boethian. He defined the latter as the "power of music, its ethos . . . brought into action upon our mind"; the former,...
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Interpreting Chaos: The Paradigm of Chaotics and New Critical Theory
Despite recent attempts at interdisciplinary study, the sciences and humanities are still marked by a significant emphasis on specialization. This situation often reinforces the traditional, and seemingly unbridgeable, gulf separating notions of...
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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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[i]Ethnomusicology Scholarship and Teaching[/i] - Neurodiversity and the Ethnomusicology of Autism
Abstract In this article, I explore how musical experience and an emergent ethnomusicology of autism can provide both people with autism and their neurotypical counterparts with opportunities to collectively live, model, and promote an epistemology of...
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A Laugh a Minuet: Humor in Late Eighteenth-Century Music
Give a musician even half a musical witticism and he'll laugh—often sorrowfully, much to the bemusement of the audience around him. Bring up the subject of funny music and he'll produce an arm's length list of examples of comic sounds. Yet to make a...
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[i]Mozart: A Life[/i], by Maynard Solomon
Mozart: A Life, by Maynard Solomon. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995. xvi + 640 pp. ISBN 0-06-019046-9. About two-thirds of the way through his massive, richly detailed new Mozart biography, Maynard Solomon quotes from a Danish tenor's...
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Exploring Cadenzas to Beethoven's Piano Concertos
As a performer I have always been interested in the Beethoven concertos. Recently I started exploring further into the cadenzas for these concertos, and since then I have become addicted to collecting cadenzas. Of those I have found, some are...
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Critics disagree. It is not important nor perhaps even desirable that they cease doing so. Rather, it is important that they and their readers understand why they do so. Disagreements stemming from stupidity or ill-will on the part of one of the...
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A New Curriculum for Secondary General Music
This article was part of a Symposium entitled Trends in Music Teaching. This discussion intends to convey to our readers current ideas on the newer trends in the teaching of music. Three of the articlesthis article, along with Music Education is Coming...
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