The Ethics and Legality of Beta Blockers for Performance Anxiety: What Every Educator Should Know

01 October 2011 Educators are required to make many pedagogical decisions, and fortunately, most are quite simple and do not necessitate major ethical considerations. Some decisions might come easily—for instance whether to copy music for a page turn or view a video...

American Music in Music Courses

01 October 1985 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...

Music Therapy in Handel's England: Browne's Medicina Musica (1729)

01 October 1985 The development of contemporary uses for music in therapy is generally attributed to the twentieth century or even the late nineteenth century; however, a text on the subject was published in 1729. The book, Medicina Musica, or, a Mechanical Essay on...

Music Appreciation Materials I

31 October 2000 Michael L. Masterson, Northwest College (Wyoming) Because most Music Appreciation textbooks focus on the historical development of Western Art music, the professor who wants to help students find meaning in music of many styles from diverse cultures,...

A Response to Kivy: Music and "Music Appreciation" in the Undergraduate Liberal Arts Curriculum

01 October 1999 I Allegro Spiritoso There is absolutely no justification at all . . . for insisting that well educated humanities students learn music in the way that music faculties today are required to teach them. Peter Kivy, "Music and the Liberal Education" I...

Employment Matters in Higher Jazz Education

13 May 2026 Introduction Employment research is a ubiquitous feature in contemporary policy, economic, and business sectors. The higher education sector in the United States has tracked employment data for many decades, aided by organizations such as the American...

Music, Myth and Man: A New Concept of Teaching Music Appreciation

01 October 1979 In the struggle to give the wishes of my heart artistic shape, . . . my studies thus bore me, through the legends of the Middle Ages, right down to their foundation in the old Germanic myths. . . . What here I saw was no longer the Figure of...

Introducing Musical Meaning through Popular Music

20 September 2018 Abstract When analyzing challenging texted art music, all too often the act of labeling a concept (for example, “common-tone modulation”) can mislead students into thinking that the label is the end of the story. Several factors, such as difficulty in...

Heritage Band of the Midwest Digital Audio Archives: 40-Plus Years of Volunteer Dedication to International Wind Band Music

28 April 2017 VISIT THE AUDIO ARCHIVE Abstract The Heritage Band of the Midwest (HBM), also know as the “Bunny Band,” is an all-volunteer ensemble of musicians that gather once a year during Easter week for three days to record an album of lesser-known wind band...

Author-Supplied Metadata for Music Composition Dissertations in ProQuest

12 October 2015 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...

Saying Something Else: Improvisation and Music-Play Facilitation in a Medical Ethnomusicology Program for Children on the Autism Spectrum

01 October 2008 Studies of social and interactive processes in music improvisation constitute an important dimension of contemporary ethnomusicological research.1 The range of topics, issues, and traditions addressed is vast, yet one may identify across this...

Music Teacher Education in America (1753-1840): A Look at One of its Three Sources

01 October 1991 In his address at the formation of the Society for Music Teacher Education in San Antonio in 1982, Charles Leonhard described American music teacher education as "a hybrid growing out of three traditions in higher education: the liberal arts tradition,...

The Musical World of Hildegard of Bingen

01 October 1998 Hildegard's life (1098-1179) spans most of the twelfth century, one of the richest and most fascinating periods in cultural and intellectual history. Among the distinguished personages of this century are Dante Alighieri, Peter Abelard and his wife...

A "Requiem for the Requiem": On Stravinsky's Requiem Canticles

01 October 1993 A "Requiem for the Requiem"1: On Stravinsky's Requiem Canticles I. Time Travel and Ritual It is in the nature of things—and it is this which determines the uninterrupted march of evolution in art as much as in other branches of human activity—that...

Music as Organic Evolution: Schoenberg's Mythic Springboard Into the Future

01 October 1993 Although long an archetype of modern thought, biological evolution's eminent role has not always been an appropriate one: its convenience as a cover for all manner of processive change has often been abused. Arenas of thought once presumed accountable...

The Politics of Definition in New Music

01 October 1989 We live in confusing times. In virtually every field of artistic endeavor, a plethora of stylistic/aesthetic "isms" abounds: almost daily, new media and art forms spring up, ranging from subsets and hybrids of performance to new technologies unimagined...

Oral History in Music: A Practical Guide

01 October 1980 In a recent article for this journal Barry S. Brook discussed the function of oral history in musical research, its special advantages to historians, and the distinctions between oral and written documents.1 Oral history, he noted, provides "the...

Star-Spangled Bibliography

01 October 1972 Relevance, anyone? Change? Concern for the "now" world of music in the United States? "Deep forays" out of the music library "into neighboring disciplines, into social and regional history, into history of ideas, science, and technology, into the study...

And Now We Begin—A Survey of Recent Theory Texts

01 October 1973 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...

Mathematic Techniques in Music History

01 October 1978 In presenting to students the materials of his discipline, the musicologist normally has recourse to words.1 This hardly seems strange, but there is reason why it should. The attempt to describe one language (in this case, music) in terms of the...