James A. Davis
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Abstract Music instruction in the college and the conservatory is dominated by the ancient master-apprentice model of instruction, which has problematic cultural and pedagogical ramifications. This essay first investigates apprenticeship from...
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Union Musicians and the Medal of Honor During the American Civil War
1880-1901. Wachter, Evelyn Sidman. Sidman-Sidnam Families of Upstate New York. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1981. authors: James A. Davis author_ids: 1588 authors: James A. Davis author_ids: 1588
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Playing to Learn: Pedagogical Games in Music Theory and Aural Skills
Abstract Pedagogical games serve serious purposes: deepening student engagement, promoting mastery of course content, and increasing motivation through peer support and constructive competition. Although instructors in many disciplines use pedagogical...
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The "Indian" Operas of Charles Wakefield Cadman
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...
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Cultural Influences of Organ Music Composed by African American Women
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...
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Interviews with Music Alumni to Inform Curriculum and Practice: A Case Study
Abstract Music careers are in a constant state of flux, and college and university music programs have the arduous task of ensuring that music curricula remain relevant in an ever-changing music career environment. Moreover, college and university...
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A Taxonomy of Sentence Structures
Abstract In his 1967 Fundamentals of Musical Composition, Arnold Schonberg described the sentence as a basic tool for organizing themes. Over the past thirty years, a growing number of scholars have been reexamining Schoenberg's concept of the sentence...
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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...
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Reading Schumann By Way of Jean Paul and His Contemporaries
April 1989. I would like to extend my thanks to my colleague, Dr. Mark Evan Bonds, and my graduate assistant, Mr. James A. Davis, for their thoughtful comments and criticisms of earlier versions of this essay. 2Robert Schumann, Tagebücher, Band I,...
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Concept-Based Pedagogy and its Application in the Private Clarinet Studio
Abstract Educators are no longer the keepers of content. With the increase in accessibility to technology and the internet, teachers need to show students how to think critically and use facts to influence their own independence and creativity in the...
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"Broadway the Hard Way:" Techniques of Allusion in the Music of Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa might be described as a cultural guerilla. He sees that the popular arts are propagandistic in the broad sense—even when they masquerade as rebellion they lull us into fantasy and homogenize our responses. So he infiltrates the machine and...
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“Experience is an Identity”: The Collegiate Marching Band and Expressions of Communal Identity
Abstract The communities formed in higher education institutions often view marching bands as an essential representation of communal identity. Marching bands are able to project this communal identity through musical and visual performance practices...
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Music Performance Anxiety and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: Some Pedagogical Insights
Abstract Although it has gained considerable scholarly attention within the last three decades, music performance anxiety (MPA) remains a topic most musicians prefer to avoid due to fear of judgment. Yet, the experience of MPA is prevalent among adult...
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Abstract In this article, the authors put forward a Conceptual Model of Independent Studio Production (ISP) in undergraduate music technology courses. Independent Studio Production reflects the increasingly multifaceted nature of the recording...
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“And when his hand he had stretch’d forth To mine, with pleasant looks, whence I was cheer’d, Into that secret place he led me on.”1 Venturing across disciplines in musical practice and pedagogy is often seen as a path fraught with peril, yet the...
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Remixing Western Music History
Lynch, “Introduction: Why Internationalization?” In Listening across Borders: Musicology in the Global Classroom, eds. James A. Davis and Christopher Lynch (New York: Routledge, 2022), 1–7. See also Philip Taylor, “Navigating the Global Turn in Western...
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Abstract In the field of ethnomusicology, the study of children’s music has long been overlooked which leads to a lack of understanding of the complex contexts of children’s musical worlds. Therefore it is imperative that we explore the historical and...
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Now that jazz is achieving respectability in educational circles and analysts are applying their diverse techniques to improvised solos, it is appropriate to review what is being done in jazz analysis and to suggest a direction for the future. The...
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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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Transition and Retransition in Mozart's Sonata-Type Movements
The single-movement sonata form was the supreme type of instrumental music in the Classic era, although Classic composers themselves apparently shared no general concept of the internal organization therein.1 Only in the Romantic period did the term...
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