Ives and Yale: The Enduring Influence of a College Experience

01 October 1999 see J. Peter Burkholder, "Rule-Breaking as a Rhetorical Sign," in Festa Musicologica: Essays in Honor of George J. Buelow, ed. Thomas J. Mathiesen and Benito V. Rivera (Stuyvesant, N.Y.: Pendragon Press, 1995), 361-89. 30Rossiter, Charles Ives and His...

Teaching Seventeenth-Century Concepts of Musical Form and Expression: An Aspect of Baroque Music

01 October 1987 by permission of the copyright holder, Cambridge University Press, for which permission we are most grateful. authors: George J. Buelow author_ids: 1213 authors: George J. Buelow author_ids: 1213

Preface to a Graduate Course in the History of Music Theory

01 October 1982 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...

Why Have We Failed?

31 December 1970 of students planning to make his or her career music and planning to enter a graduate program in music. authors: George J. Buelow author_ids: 1213 authors: George J. Buelow author_ids: 1213

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...

The Function of Dynamics in the Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven: Some Implications for the Performer

01 October 1976 the Committee on Curriculum and Accreditation of the American Musicological Society (Alexander Ringer, Denis Stevens, George J. Buelow), First Edition, December 1969. 2Esp. in Cone, Musical Form and Musical Performance (New York: W.W. Norton, 1968);...

The Global DJ Project and the Blank Canvas: World Music, Memory and Meaning

20 May 2013 Abstract1 “The blank canvas” is a hypothetical psychoacoustic adaptation strategy which enables latter day American listeners to survive and even thrive within an environment of extreme musical diversity. This diversity is as much historical as it is...

Oratorical Thought and the Tragédie lyrique: A Consideration of Musical-Rhetorical Figures

01 October 1980 comprehension of the role of classicism in the tragédie lyrique. 1For a list of primary and secondary sources see George J. Buelow, "Music, Rhetoric and the Concepts of the Affections: A Selective Bibliography," Notes 20 (1973-74), 250-259. 2For an...

Reflections on the Relationship of Analysis and Performance

01 October 1993 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...

Past Editors

10 May 2013 Scholarship and Research Volumes 1 and 2, 1961 - 1962 Donald M. McCorkle Volumes 3 through 6, 1963 - 1966 Henry W. Kaufman Volumes 7 through 9, 1967 - 1969 Philip Nelson Volume 10, 1970 Donald M. McCorkle Volume 11, 1971 George Buelow Volume 12,1972...