David Butler
Assuming david is required, and butler is required, the following 20 results were found.
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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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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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Music Theory, Theories of Music, and Systematic Musicology
Order in Three-Tone Sequences," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1974, Vol. 56, No. 1, p. 151. authors: David Butler author_ids: 1295 authors: David Butler author_ids: 1295
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Schoenberg on the Modes: Characteristics, Substitutes, and Tonal Orientation
experience, would the notion of characteristically rare pitches account for tonal orientation and reorientation?" David Butler has pointed out the complexity of tonal orientation, and, drawing upon Browne, has proposed a model of an intervallic...
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Seduction and Subversion: The Feminist Strategies of Siouxsie and the Banshees
Academics and creative artists frequently recognize the same tensions, desires, and conflicts that exist in society. They both often sense that which is lacking or out of balance in the social fabric, and express the same criticisms of prevalent...
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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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And Now an Ideology from Our Sponsor: Musical Style and Semiosis in American Television Commercials
I. Introduction Television viewing is regarded by most in our society as a recreational pastime and an escapist form of entertainment. Yet media theorists hold the position that television viewing is not the passive activity that we might assume. John...
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Beyond "Bach-Centrism": Historiographic Perspectives on Johann Sebastian Bach and Seventeenth-Century Music1 In connection with the preparation of an article on Bach's early works,2 I recently have examined books and essays of all kinds, some intended...
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Warthin, "Some physiological effects of music on hypnotized subjects," Medical News, 65, 1894, pp. 89-94. Reported by David Butler, An Historical Investigation and Bibliography of Nineteenth Century Music Psychology Literature (Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio...
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Abstract Exemplifying his approach to musical nationalism, the Misa folclórica paraguaya (“Paraguayan Folkloric Mass”) of Florentín Giménez (1925–2021) combines elements of the Roman Catholic Mass with folkloric music idioms. Composed in 1990, this...
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Boot Camp San Antonio: Internet Conferencing, Collaboration, and Convergence
Those who arrived in San Antonio a day early were treated to an event of music and technology unlike any ever before assembled for a CMS conference. The CMS 2006 conference began with a pre-conference that immersed some 50 attendees in the latest...
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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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A Perceptual Learning Hierarchy: An Imperative for Aural Skills Pedagogy
was presented at the 1999 Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition at Northwestern University. 2 David Butler and Mark Lochstampfor provide statistical support for this statement in "Bridges Unbuilt: Comparing the Literatures of...
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The Woman in the Music (On Feminism as Theory and Practice)
The Woman in the Music 1 (On Feminism as Theory and Practice) At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars! The outside pattern, I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can...
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34,1991 - 1994 Herbert Lee Riggins Volumes 35 through 37, 1995 - 1997 Anne Dhu McLucas Volumes 38 through 41,1998 - 2001 David Butler Volumes 42 through 44, 2002 - 2004 Patricia Shehan Campbell Volumes 45 through 47, 2005 - 2007 Richard Green Volumes 48...
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An Outsider’s Guide to Classical Music: Teaching the Western Canon as “Other”
There is a need to teach the young people who will be doing the science themselves, but this will always be a small minority among us. There is a deeper need to teach science to those who will be needed for thinking about it, and this means pretty...
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Oral History in Music: A Practical Guide
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...
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[i]Ethnomusicology Scholarship and Teaching[/i] - Ethnomusicology at the Bend in the Road
Abstract More than a half a century after the founding of the Society for Ethnomusicology, significant areas of change have centered on (1) the growth of academic programs in ethnomusicology; (2) the expansion of professional organizations; (3)...
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[i]Musical Perceptions[/i], Ed. Rita Aiello with John A. Sloboda
with their own fields of music -- music theorists with Nicholas Cook's "Perception: A Perspective from Music Theory" and David Butler and Helen Brown's "Describing the Mental Representation of Tonality in Music"; performers with John Sloboda's "Music...
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the BF tritone embedded in the background figure is crucial here as a tonal marker, as Richmond Browne, Helen Brown, and David Butler have argued. 23"Added 6th" refers here to the cliché tradition in 20th-century popular music and jazz which added a...