Teleology and Structural Determinants in Beethoven's C# Minor Quartet, Op. 131

01 October 1990 To characterize Beethoven's Minor Quartet as teleology is to underscore its purposeful structural design, and to consider how Beethoven achieved its powerful underlying integration in movements comprising a scenario of dramatic contrasts. The work...

The Entrepreneurship Curriculum for Music Students: Thoughts Towards a Consensus

03 October 2005 The increasing importance of professional development is one of the most dynamic trends emerging in the arts within higher education. Publicly funded institutions in particular are increasingly relying on entrepreneurship as a means to prepare students...

Extensions to the Pedagogical Canon: Expanding Perspectives on William Grant Still and the Teaching Applications as Realized in the [i]Seven Traceries[/i]

17 August 2015 Abstract William Grant Still’s Seven Traceries (1940) is a set of piano pieces that exhibits a number of post-tonal materials and techniques such as octatonicism, extended tertian sonorities, dense chromaticism, and extensive motivic development....

Deconstructing McClary: Narrative, Feminine Sexuality, and Feminism in Susan McClary's Feminine Endings

01 October 1993 Deconstructing McClary: Narrative, Feminine Sexuality, and Feminism in Susan McClary's Feminine Endings1 The frustration and excitement of reading Kristeva's writings makes my own relationship to them similar to what she describes as the relation to...

The Contemporary Performing Ensemble

01 October 1968 Within the last decade, a new phenomenon has come to prominence in American universities and colleges: the chamber ensemble, usually of professional quality, dedicated to the performance of contemporary music. Although the number of such ensembles is...

The Curriculum Design Process in Music

01 October 1988 In this essay I shall suggest an approach to curriculum design in music which, while taking account of important external factors, establishes the teacher's experience as a central element in the process and implies that the teacher's task is a...

Performance Anxiety: Constantin Stanislavski's Concept of Public Solitude

01 October 2008 HYSTERIUM: I'm calm, I'm calm, I'm perfectly calm, I'm utterly under control. I haven't a worry— Where others would hurry, I stroll. (HE runs frantically around the stage.) I'm calm, I'm cool, A gibbering fool Is something I never become! When thunder...

An Interview with Thomas A. Brantigan: Beta Blockers and Musicians – A Thirty-Year Retrospective

01 October 2011 One of the benefits of a career in music is working with inspiring colleagues. These individuals promote artistic growth, offer pedagogical insights, and present different perspectives on professional issues. Thomas A. Brantigan is currently Director...

Blackboard and Wikis and Blogs, Oh My: Collaborative Learning Tools for Enriching Music History and Music Theory Courses

01 October 2009 Just as Dorothy had to overcome her fear of lions and tigers and bears in The Wizard of Oz, so too have collegiate faculty been encouraged to use new computer-mediated tools in their teaching to facilitate student learning, such as Blackboard and wikis...

The Crisis in Theory Teaching

01 October 1965 This article was part of a Symposium entitled The Crisis in Theory Teaching. The other authors were A. Tillman Merritt, Andrew Imbrie, and Milton Babbitt. Their articles also appear in SYMPOSIUM Volume 5. This discussion intends to convey to our...

Musical Archives in Mexico City, Tepotzotlan and Puebla

01 October 1967 This paper was read originally at the ninth annual meeting of the Society held in New Orleans, Louisiana, December 26-28, 1966. It was part of a Triple Session with The American Musicological Society and the Society for Ethnomusicology entitled...

The Beethoven Symphonies in London: Initial Decades

01 October 1985 Innumerable history textbooks record Napoleon's 1799 overthrow of the French Government. Five years would elapse before historians could begin to record Admiral Horatio Nelson's victory at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar, a British...

Space, Time, and Memory: Examining the Disconnect between Looking at Contemporary Art and Listening to Contemporary Music

20 September 2020 Abstract This article considers the paradox of why lay people can appreciate modern visual art yet regard contemporary music as noise. Why do art lovers look at Picasso’s Guernica (1937), for instance, and proclaim it a masterpiece and yet when they...

Summertime: George Gershwin’s Life in Music, by Richard Crawford

20 September 2020 Summertime: George Gershwin’s Life in Music. Richard Crawford. New York: W. W. Norton, 2019. 594 pp. 17 b&w images. ISBN: 9780393052152. $39.95. Isaac Goldberg published his George Gershwin biography in 1931, only seven years after the premiere of...

An Analysis of Triadic Post-tonality in Sky Macklay’s [i]Many Many Cadences[/i] for String Quartet

10 January 2018 Abstract Emerging composer Sky Macklay has written a string quartet entitled Many Many Cadences (2014) which inventively combines the basic operations of neo-Riemannian triadic transformations and voice leading (e.g., Parallel (P), Leading-tone (L),...

A Web of Words: Elliott Carter’s End of a Chapter

17 June 2016 Over the course of his career, Elliott Carter set the work of a variety of poets to music. Among these are some true early 20th century modernist pioneers–Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky–as well as the recent master John Ashbery. In...

Remembering American Composer Arthur Farwell and His Family: An Interview with His Son, Jonathan

01 February 2016 Arthur George Farwell (1872-1952) was instrumental in helping to develop an American style of musical composition for the twentieth century. I became aware of Farwell and his historical importance when I met Ms. Jeanne Behrend in the 1980’s in...

Feminist Scholarship and the Field of Musicology: I

01 October 1989 Feminist Scholarship and the Field of Musicology: I1 In a study entitled Feminist Scholarship: Kindling in the Groves of Academe, five authors surveyed recent scholarship in the fields of anthropology, education, history, literature, and philosophy in...

Music as Life-Saving Project: Venezuela’s El Sistema in American Neo-Idealistic Imagination

28 April 2014 Abstract The U.S. reception of El Sistema has been, for the most part, enthusiastic, as reflected in numerous media articles and the literature of prominent advocates such as Tricia Tunstall. An analysis of these sources points to a tendency on the...

[i]Cultivating Music in America: Women Patrons and Activists since 1860[/i], edited by Ralph P. Locke and Cyrilla Barr; [i]Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge: American Patron of Music[/i], by Cyrilla Barr

01 October 1999 Cultivating Music in America: Women Patrons and Activists since 1860, edited by Ralph P. Locke and Cyrilla Barr. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xi + 357 pp. ISBN 0-520-08395-4. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge: American Patron of Music, by...