An Evolutionary View of Neapolitan Formations in Beethoven's Pianoforte Sonatas

01 October 1980 pp. 44-45. 4Thematic Patterns in Sonatas of Beethoven (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1967), pp. 77-78. authors: Harold Thompson author_ids: 1322 authors: Harold Thompson author_ids: 1322

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...

Philippe Entremont at 90: A Consideration of His Pedagogy and Artistic Legacy

11 April 2025 Abstract The classical pianist and orchestra conductor Phillipe Entremont is a living legend, not just in France but also worldwide. He is in fact one of the most recorded artists in history, with hundreds of recordings to his name. Yet, there is more...

And Now We Begin—A Survey of Recent Theory Texts

01 October 1973 The 1960s were a time for reexamination of the aims, contents and methods of college courses designed to teach music theory, and, as a corollary, of the texts intended for those courses. Several factors contributed to the creation of a "crisis in the...

The "Indian" Operas of Charles Wakefield Cadman

01 October 1982 Charles Wakefield Cadman is best known today for his popular-style ballads which achieved a remarkable commercial success in the early decades of the twentieth century. What is less well known is that Cadman considered his primary talent to be in the...

A Study in Jazz Historiography: [i]The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz[/i]

01 October 1989 A Study in Jazz Historiography: The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz * The word monumental has been overused in recent years in connection with the New Grove Dictionaries, but there seems to be no adequate substitute for describing the new addition to the...