David A. Williams
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College Music Symposium: A Reflection on the Past and a Step into the Future
College Music Symposium, the premier journal of The College Music Society, was published in print form for 50 years, 1961-2010. The journal included scholarly and historical articles, reviews of publications and recordings, reports of musical events,...
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Seeking Mature Music Technology
Dear Squeak and Blat, I am an older person (I won't say how old, but my high school music teacher was called a "bandmaster") and I want to learn more about music technology. I am retired and have a new computer and my son gave me a MIDI synthesizer for...
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Squeak and Blat: MP3s and M4Ps: Lost in Audio File Format Land!
Q: Dear Blat, I have been using CDs for years and have also been buying music off of Apple's iTunes Store. My son has been encouraging me to "rip" many of my CDs into the iTunes library so everything can be together. So I started doing this without...
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General MIDI or Not to General MIDI, That is the Question!
Dear Squeak and Blat, Thanks for your column and the great advice guys. Maybe you can help us out here at our school. I chair our department and am trying to write a grant to create a music technology lab. Our music education prof wants us to buy...
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Dear Squeak and Blat, Help! I'm loosing my mind! I try to download some neat movies from the Internet on how to assemble bassoons and oboes and I keep getting this message saying that I don't have enough room. My uncle Sid from Spillville sells clocks...
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Squeak and Blat: Mozart Opera and iPod Seria and Buffa!
Q: Dear Squeak: I'm heading out on a much earned sabbatical and one of my goals is to study Mozart operas. I have quite a collection on DVDs and Netflix has many I can rent to review. I'm looking for a way I can put these on my iPod (or my iPhone if I...
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Music Technology Money to Burn
Dear Squeak and Blat, Finally my college gave me $20,000 to create a small music lab. I want to use this for my students to do ear training, composing, arranging, and notation. Where do I start? Is Mac really dead? Should I think Windows instead of...
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Who's Pushing Your Web Surfboard?
Dear Squeak and Blat, Someone asked me the other day if I was using any "push" clients on my computer. I assured him that no one was pushing me around or messing with items on my computer! I really had no idea what this meant. What is this "push" thing...
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Dear Squeak and Blat, I am a classical pianist turned multimedia courseware developer. I live in an out-of-the-way place (Australia). The target audience for the products that I am developing would be college-aged music students, music professionals,...
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Oxford University Press, 2013 ISBN-13: 978-0199857234 How do we choose music for our students to study as part of their coursework in music theory? I think many theory instructors would recognize a (perhaps transparent) priority for exposing students...
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The Health of Music Teacher Training - Keynote Presentation and Responses
Introduction David B. Williams, Illinois State University A key issue that has surfaced in the CMS music education forums, both at conferences and on the CMS listserv, is the need for self-examination of the music teacher training curriculum as it...
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Dear Squeak and Blat, Aaargh! I'm very frustrated! I can't seem to find a consistent source for buying CD-ROMs in music for my school. My music store seems to not know what I am talking about and I don't see much listed in the big mail order places. I...
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Squeak and Blat: Music XML, the [i]lingua franca[/i] for exchanging music notation files
Q: Dear Squeak, Several of my American students (e.g., Aaron, Elliot, Ingolf, Elle, Virgil, and Elinor) are sending their compositions over here to my Paris studio for my critique and they are using many different music notation software programs....
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Dear Squeak and Blat, In reference to last month's column [October] that contained a letter about LCD panels for teaching, I offer you and your readers the following. At the time that the one school I teach at was ready to lease such a panel, there was...
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Flexible Ear Cleaning Software!
Dear Squeak and Blat, I am wondering if you know of an ear-training program that would let the instructor enter all examples (or at least have the ability to enter examples and catalogue them) of melodic, rhythmic and harmonic dictation? We currently...
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[i]Introducing American Folk Music[/i], by Kip Lornell
Introducing American Folk Music, by Kip Lornell. Madison, Wisconsin: WCB/Brown and Benchmark, 1993. xii + 251 pp. ISBN 0-697-13383-4. Kip Lornell has written a fine introductory textbook that presents the many styles of folk music and folk-based music...
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Ugh! Why Pink? A Brief History of Music's Academic Color
Ugh! Why pink? As surely as commencement rolls around every year, this exclamation is heard at universities and colleges throughout the country. From faculty and graduates alike comes the question: "Why was pink chosen as the academic color for...
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Oboist Dr. Ann Fronckowiak and percussionist Cristian Zavala, together known as Duo Precipice, delivered an extraordinary recital on March 30, 2022 on the campus of Texas A&M University at Kingsville. The program featured a mix of repertoire...
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Catapult Opera and Talea Ensemble, conducted by Neal Goren. Nadia Boulanger: La ville morte
Catapult Opera and Talea Ensemble, conducted by Neal Goren. Nadia Boulanger: La ville morte. 2025. Pentatone 5187492. CD and MP3 download, 2 discs, 22 tracks (01:39). pentatonemusic.com. CD €33.75, download €23.99 If you knew little else about Nadia...
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This article was stimulated by the provocative thoughts expressed in the article by Robert Weirich, which appeared in the March 2001 Newsletter. Are music specialists isolating themselves within their respective branches of the discipline, thus...
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