David Mitchell
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Abstract Mozart Violin Concerto in D Major, K. 271a/271i, also known as Kolb Concerto, is less popular than other Mozart concertos due to its unsettled authenticity, and yet is a piece worth learning. In this concerto Mozart, if he wrote it, seemed to...
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Music Iconography and Medieval Performance Practice
Introduction This study of iconography and performance practice is divided into two parts. Part I deals with the definition of iconography and its relationship to performance practice. Part II outlines some general principles necessary to the study of...
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CMS Forums Monthly Discussion - January/February 2016
choosing, the CMS Forums Editorial Board reviews all submissions. January/February 2016 discussion, authored by Dr, David Mitchell (Atlanta Institute of Music and Media), focuses on degrees and programs in music technology. This study will collect data...
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CMS Forum Survey Summary: Designing a Music and Technology Degree
to fit into this new reality, though they have not specifically designed a music and technology degree. authors: David Mitchell author_ids: 2678 authors: David Mitchell author_ids: 2678
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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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Reflections on the Relationship of Analysis and Performance
Reflections on the Relationship of Analysis and Performance1 Introduction In their common endeavor to make and deliver personal interpretations about musical compositions, the activities and preoccupations of analysts and performers of music intersect...
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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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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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Is It Possible to Sing the Prologue to Orlando di Lasso’s [i]Prophetiae Sibyllarum[/i] in Tune?
Abstract All tuning systems except equal temperament (ET) have small irreconcilable mathematical discrepancies. In particular, just intonation (JI), espoused by Zarlino and other Renaissance theorists as an ideal tuning system, was already known in the...
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Since the mission of The College Music Society is to act as a forum for the exchange of ideas in the profession, it is quite natural that the pages of Symposium should continue to be open to discussion of the Contemporary Music Project, the philosophy...
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Paul Hindemith's Philosophy of Music and the Role of [i]The Four Temperaments[/i]
Paul Hindemith formulated his philosophy of music upon two "basic and unalterable musical values," the one, Augustinian, the other, Boethian. He defined the latter as the "power of music, its ethos . . . brought into action upon our mind"; the former,...
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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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Students Evaluate Music Theory Courses: A Reddit Community Survey
Abstract Undergraduate music programs are currently reexamining the place and value of theory study. While some have argued for this core subject to be dissolved and absorbed by related courses, others defend that music theory is a non-negotiable core...
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Union Musicians and the Medal of Honor During the American Civil War
Abstract The sound of fifes, drums, and bugles are recognized as a commonplace yet significant part of the Civil War soundscape. Those who performed this music, however, have drawn less attention than the pieces they performed. This is unfortunate, as...
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J.S. Bach Teaches Us How to Compose: Four Pattern Preludes of the Well-Tempered Clavier
Charles Gounod was not alone in hearing the opening prelude of the Well-Tempered Clavier as a wandering accompaniment in search of a melody—surely, we have all heard performers play it that way. But early eighteenth-century musicians certainly heard...
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Jeff Beck: The Quintessential Postmodern Virtuoso Meets Baudrillard’s Racing Driver and his Double
Abstract Jean Baudrillard contends that human achievement has become so intertwined with the media, technology, and hypereality that individual accomplishment has become nearly impossible. This generates nostalgia for exceptional talents who can...
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The Popular Album as Song Cycle: Paul Simon's [i]Still Crazy After All These Years[/i]
The analysis of popular music in the academic community is no longer the clandestine enterprise of a few heretical musicologists and theorists. Over the last ten years, popular music criticism has become an academically viable and even trendy affair...
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Feminist Scholarship and the Field of Musicology: I
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...
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Although I have been in orchestra and glee club a long time, I have learned more in these few weeks than ever before. This is what one student wrote after beginning a course with Mildred Trevvett at the Governor Thomas Johnson High School in Frederick,...
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[i]The Concise Oxford History of Music[/i], by Gerald Abraham
The Concise Oxford History of Music, by Gerald Abraham. London, New York and Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1979. 968 pp. ISBN 0-19-311319-8. A "concise" history? That might seem an odd designation for this blockbuster volume. Yet compared to the...
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