“Oh My Son!”: The Musical Origins and Function of King David’s Lamentation

01 October 2009 Introduction In his 1981 article “Prince Henry as Absalom in David’s Lamentations” Irving Godt examined a group of seventeenth-century English settings based on King David’s laments for his son Absalom and his friend Jonathan.1 On the basis of the...

Multi-Linear Continuity and "Songs to the Dark Virgin" by Florence Price [1888-1953]

01 May 2023 Abstract The poem “Songs to the Dark Virgin,” composed by Langston Hughes and included in his 1926 volume The Weary Blues, presents an obscure and complex text that seems to address an ambiguous second-person entity, the “Dark Virgin.” In this article...

Hardware Development for Computer-Based Instruction

01 October 1981 Music Instruction (Final Report) (Falls Church: System Development Corporation and Wichita Public Schools, 1970). 10G. David Peters, Feasibility of Computer-Assisted Instruction for Instrumental Music Education (dissertation, University of Illinois...

Microcomputer-Based Teaching—Computer-Assisted Instruction in Music Comes of Age

01 October 1981 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....

A Brief History of Computer-Assisted Instruction in Music

01 October 1981 Phrasing, and Rhythm for Intermediate Instrumentalists," Council for Research in Music Education XXXI (1973), 1-11. 4G. David Peters, "Capabilities of Computer-assisted Instruction in Music: The PLATO Music Project," paper presented at the conference of...

The Teacher's Guide to Recent Recordings of Music by Black Composers

01 October 1973 This discography is restricted to "concert" music by composers of African ancestry, regardless of the country of their birth. I acknowledge immediately that several of the figures listed are represented on recordings by works in other genres (e.g.,...

Towards a History of Absolute Pitch Recognition

01 October 1987 Absolute pitch recognition, more commonly known as "perfect pitch," has been a controversial subject for much of the past century.1 Is the faculty inborn or is it acquired? Is it a measure of musical talent? The recent literature is filled with...

Mozart’s Violin Concerto in D Major, K. 271a/271i: A “Dubious” Work that is Nevertheless Worthy of Study

15 May 2024 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...

Approaching Musical Classicism—Understanding Styles and Style Change in Eighteenth-Century Instrumental Music

01 October 1980 I Historical/stylistic periods in music are both useful and perplexing concepts; they simultaneously clarify and hinder one's perception of a given period and a given work. Part of the difficulty arises from a general lack of agreement as to what...

Composition Before Rameau: Harmony, Figured Bass, and Style in the Baroque

01 October 1984 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...

A Structural Model for the Eroica Finale?

01 October 1982 A form which was unique when it appeared, and has remained unique ever since.1 Commentators have long noted the finale of the Eroica Symphony as having a structure both unique and unprecedented. Yet no one has presumed to suggest that the structure of...

Beyond "Bach-Centrism": Historiographic Perspectives on Johann Sebastian Bach and Seventeenth-Century Music

01 October 1993 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...

Edward T. Cone's [i]The Composer's Voice[/i]: Cone's "Personae" and the Analysis of Opera

01 October 1989 In The Composer's Voice, Edward T. Cone interprets musical compositions in terms of the various different "personae" which inhabit them. Regarding vocal music, his chief distinction is that between the singer (the "vocal persona") and the accompanist...

A Survey of Music Anthologies

01 October 1979 The purpose of this article is to provide the reader with a survey of anthologies of music published since 1965. Prior to this date, the classroom teacher had access to only a few compilations of music. These included, for example, Albert Wier's...

RCMI/CUNY: The Research Center for Musical Iconography of the City University of New York

01 October 1973 The Research Center for Musical Iconography was established in the spring of 1972 under the auspices of the Ph.D. Program in Music at the City University of New York, to augment the facilities for music research within the University and to serve as...

Robert Schumann's Album for the Young and the Coming of Age of Nineteenth-Century Piano Pedagogy

01 October 2001 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...