David A. Williams
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Abstract Music instruction in the college and the conservatory is dominated by the ancient master-apprentice model of instruction, which has problematic cultural and pedagogical ramifications. This essay first investigates apprenticeship from...
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Abstract This article explores data from the published literature, and a focus group, on recruitment and retention in the applied studio—topics, about which, applied faculty members have been reticent and private for decades. Authors shed light on...
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Paying Attention to Music and Baseball: Listening to the Savannah Bananas
In 1956, Ford Frick, the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, tried to woo music fans to pay more attention to baseball. Writing in Music Journal, Frick hoped that his “comparison of music and baseball should be of interest to devotees of both of...
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Help Wanted? Exploring Altruism in a Music Conservatory through Positive Social Deviance
The purpose of this project was to explore student reactions to altruism in the affective context of a music conservatory. Through a series of scenarios designed to breach social norms, the author gauged conservatory students’ willingness to accept...
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Improvisation in the Aural Curriculum: An Imperative
Improvisation has long been a part of the music curriculum, at least in certain areas of study. It is a staple of jazz studies where students learn the skill through ensembles and specific courses. Organists are taught improvisation as a means of...
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Cultural Influences of Organ Music Composed by African American Women
Cultural Influences on Organ Music Written By African American Women 1 Abstract In this paper, major events in African American history are described and contrasted with the history of organ music written by African American women in the twentieth- and...
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A Taxonomy of Sentence Structures
Abstract In his 1967 Fundamentals of Musical Composition, Arnold Schonberg described the sentence as a basic tool for organizing themes. Over the past thirty years, a growing number of scholars have been reexamining Schoenberg's concept of the sentence...
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The organist-composer Jeanne Demessieux (1921-68) is best remembered as a virtuoso performer in the French symphonic tradition, and the composer of major organ works that are unusually demanding, both technically and intellectually.1 Yet, Demessieux is...
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students. Research Studies In Music Education, 34(2), 189. doi: dx.doi.org/10.1177/1321103X12464857 authors: David A. Williams author_ids: 542 authors: David A. Williams author_ids: 542
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Seizing the Menotti Moment: Opera meets McLuhan meets Millennials
Abstract This co-authored paper examines how theories about the effects of technology on society, developed by communications theorist Marshall McLuhan in the mid-twentieth century, are represented in Gian Carlo Menotti’s double bill, The Telephone and...
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The Ethnomusicology of Music Learning and Teaching
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...
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Defending Music Theory in a Multicultural Curriculum
Defending Music Theory in a Multicultural Curriculum1 Music theory has served as the foundation for undergraduate music curricula in the United States for much of the past century. Within many music departments, it has been used to introduce students...
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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...
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Microcomputer-Based Teaching—Computer-Assisted Instruction in Music Comes of Age
It is the author's perception that there has always been a certain eagerness among musicians to experiment with technology. The converse also holds true, as technologists historically have been intrigued with the production and modification of sound....
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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....
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Composition Before Rameau: Harmony, Figured Bass, and Style in the Baroque
The relationships between music history, music theory, and composition at times seem so tenuous today that it is easy to forget that those three areas of specialization have split off from one another only recently, and that the practice of one can...
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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 Web of Words: Elliott Carter’s End of a Chapter
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...
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Employment Matters in Higher Jazz Education
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...
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Creating Music Curricula of the Future: Preparing Undergraduate Music Students to Engage
the natural result is an increase in peer valuation and collaboration. Engaging Underrepresented Student Populations (David A. Williams) School music teachers in the United States have a long history of engaging students in one particular type of music...
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