Of Irish Myth: A Response to Harry White

01 October 1998 at all levels, formally and informally.2 We mention these points to establish the context of our response to Professor Harry White's piece. Prejudices Prejudices often rest on ignorance. Professor White's paper is a case in point. White's declared...

Viewing Music Education in the United States Through Irish Eyes: A Response to Harry White

01 October 1998 I am pleased to offer some reflections on Henry White's most interesting and straight forward paper on Irish music education vis-a-vis music education in the United States. Having participated in the second of the three national debates on Irish music...

Nobel Reflections on Making Social Change: Interview with Jerry White

30 November 2018 Jerry White is a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in the removal of landmines. In this interview, Jerry reflects on some of the important challenges his work faced and how those challenges serve as signposts for initiating a movement on...

Looking Through a Musical Lens: Music, Identity and Culture in Texas

27 August 2012 Introduction1 During the 2010 and 2011 spring semesters we team-taught an upper-elective undergraduate interdisciplinary course at Baylor University entitled "Music and Identity in Texas Culture." As far as we could ascertain, a class of this nature...

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...

Employment Matters in Higher Jazz Education

13 May 2026 Introduction Employment research is a ubiquitous feature in contemporary policy, economic, and business sectors. The higher education sector in the United States has tracked employment data for many decades, aided by organizations such as the American...

"A book of manners in the wilderness": The Model of University Music Education and its Relevance as Enabler in General Education in Ireland

01 October 1998 in the national standards for assessment advocated by the Music Educators National Conference in the U.S. authors: Harry White author_ids: 977 authors: Harry White author_ids: 977

The Music Industry, Musical Industry, and Dirty (Blond) Work

13 May 2026 A Dirty Blond Show I’m home on a Saturday afternoon in Hampton, Connecticut and my band has a Blondie covers gig tonight in New York City. I give myself a strong coffee and four hours and for what Google Maps predicts is a three-hour drive (traffic...

Preserving Musical Cultures - Contemplations and Confessions

01 October 1999 Example 1. Beethoven, Piano sonata op. 110 I want to talk to you about some musicians, scholars, and teachers who have inspired me, and who have been among my hero figures for many years. They are individuals who have done a great deal to preserve...

Cultural Influences of Organ Music Composed by African American Women

01 June 2015 Cultural Influences on Organ Music Written By African American Women 1 Abstract In this paper, major events in African American history are described and contrasted with the history of organ music written by African American women in the twentieth- and...

The Crystallization of the New, New Music at UCSD

01 October 2011 1. Ever-New California In 1966 work began on widening the road leading from a sleepy San Diego beach community, La Jolla Shores, up to the area where an infant university, the University of California San Diego (UCSD), was quickly developing. The road...

". . . Our Daily Bread"

01 October 1972 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...

Black, Brown, and Beige: One Piece of Duke Ellington's Musical and Social Legacy

01 October 2011 For this article, I chose Black, Brown, and Beige, and the critics' reactions to it, as a starting point from which to discuss Ellington's efforts to change negative perceptions about African Americans and the conditions under which they lived. The...

Amerigrove's Pedigree: On [i]The New Grove Dictionary of American Music[/i]

01 October 1987 Amerigrove's Pedigree: On The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, ed. H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie, with Susan Feder as editorial coordinator The study of music in the United States has a history of its own that now stretches back nearly a...

Problems of Tempo in Puccini's Arias

01 October 2000 The problems of tempo in Puccini's soprano arias are surprisingly vexing for performers, given that the composer provided many indications in his scores, including many metronome markings, and supervised the preparation of several singers who went on...

Music and Advertising in Seventeen Magazine, 1944-1981

20 September 2019 Abstract Music had a prominent place in Seventeen from its first issue in September 1944, and music’s importance in the magazine reflects music’s importance in the lives of girls from the 1940s through the present day. Building on previous work by...

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.,...

Tempo Choices in Mozart’s Minuets: Considerations from a Conductor’s Point of View

09 November 2023 Abstract This article focuses on the two main types of minuets by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart—Tempo di Menuetto and Menuetto Allegretto—that appear in his symphonic works and in his pieces for dance accompaniment. Drawing on primary sources by Johann...

From Yankee Doodle thro' to Handel's Largo: Music at the World's Columbian Exposition

01 October 1984 O what music there will be in Chicago From Yankee Doodle thro' to Handel's Largo. The orchestras will play And the brass bands too, they say, For that great Columbian Fair at Chicago. We'll hear such melodies with grandest chords and harmonies When the...

American Music in Music Courses

01 October 1985 Virtually everyone in my family is a musician, professional or amateur, and I was brought up with many American works in our daily music-making. No point was made of it particularly; it was simply assumed that American music was an equal, valuable, and...