David A. Williams
Assuming david is required, and a is required, and williams is required, the following 101 results were found.
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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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Spioraid an dochais, Spirit of Hope: Imagining a Scottish Gamelan
Abstract Frederick Lau and Christine Yano’s edited work Making Waves (2018) notes that while music travels from culture to culture, “There is always a backstory behind each movement . . . [.] [A]ny piece of music or an instrument can become [a resource...
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Motivational Leadership Theories Applied to Music Pedagogy
The twin issues of motivation and leadership strategy are among the most significant and relevant concerns in music pedagogy. Yet, the average music teacher has, at best, only a passing acquaintance with the body of research and data available in these...
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Speaking with conviction about the musical substance of times long past is not easy. Speculating about how that music may have been experienced by its contemporaries is even more difficult, and thus musicology's most astute figures have warned...
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Creativity in the College Music Classroom: Guidelines for Effective Integration
example, asserted that “nothing short of rebuilding the conventional model from its foundations will suffice,” while David A. Williams comments (under the title “The Baby and the Bathwater”), “It is very possible, as we move further into the...
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“And when his hand he had stretch’d forth To mine, with pleasant looks, whence I was cheer’d, Into that secret place he led me on.”1 Venturing across disciplines in musical practice and pedagogy is often seen as a path fraught with peril, yet the...
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Now that jazz is achieving respectability in educational circles and analysts are applying their diverse techniques to improvised solos, it is appropriate to review what is being done in jazz analysis and to suggest a direction for the future. The...
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The College Band Directors National Association and Aesthetic Education
Abstract Founded in 1941, the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA) has been the primary professional organization for wind conductors for well over fifty years. Given the longstanding connection between college and university bands and...
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"Trollopiana"—David Claypoole Johnston Counters Frances Trollope's Views on American Music
The publication of Frances Trollope's Domestic Manners of the Americans (London, 1832) provoked a storm of angry reactions in the United States. Journalists, artists, and popular-music composers alike denounced her criticisms of American life and...
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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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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...
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Fluidity in Paul Simon's Graceland: on Text and Music in a Popular Song
The question of value in popular music has probably crossed the mind of every music scholar in America—our scholarly commitment almost always depends in some way on music's aesthetic qualities, and we encounter its popular forms daily. Answers to the...
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Open-Access Music Journals and the Possibility of Global Dialogue[sup]1[/sup]
Abstract Musicians increasingly operate in a global community connected by the internet that has affected performance, composition, and listening habits. Similarly, there is a growing trend of publishing scholarly research “open access,” meaning it is...
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There is a greater need than pianoforte teachers and singing teachers, and that is a numerous company of writers and talkers who shall teach the people how to listen to music so that it shall not pass through their heads like a vast tonal...
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Popular Music in Higher Education: Finding the Balance
Abstract The incorporation of popular music within the higher education community continues to generate interest and conversation. Its adoption represents a significant change in mission and identity for many educational institutions of all levels. A...
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Composers' Words, Theorists' Analyses, Ravel's Music (Sometimes the Twain Shall Meet)
Last year a graduate student in musicology at the University of Connecticut took an independent study with me on the music of Maurice Ravel. While in the end his work was insightful and successful, he was quite frustrated and discouraged at the...
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Dynamics in Early American Psalmody
The difficulties that today's performers experience with dynamics when performing American psalm tunes, fuging tunes, and anthems from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries appear to fall into three categories: the lack of any dynamic...
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As The College Music Society reaches its fiftieth anniversary, it is fitting that we look back on developments in college music teaching over its first fifty years. In the teaching of music history, I see five major areas of change during that time:...
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Squeak and Blat: The Future of iPads and Tablets for Electronic Scores and eMusic Readers
Dear Squeak and Blat, I found your last column on ebooks and ebook readers to be very helpful. It is so exhilarating to see how far technology has taken us from the first printing presses. With Fall semester about to start, I’m writing a proposal for a...
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A Brief History of Computer-Assisted Instruction in Music
During recent years musicians have been making outstanding contributions to educational and creative computing. Computers are now being used for musical sound synthesis and composition, musical analysis, automated music printing, information storage...
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