Secrets of The Studio: Changes In Performance Teaching

01 October 2009 Burns, and Mark Tucker. “The Piano Lesson.” In Piano Roles: Three Hundred Years of Life with the Piano, edited by James Parakilas, 132-79. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000. Rink, John, ed. Musical Performance: A Guide to Understanding. New...

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

01 October 2001 10. However, Wieck recommended finger-stretching exercises for developing finger strength away from the keyboard. See James Parakilas and others, Piano Roles (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999), 141. He also admonished against using the...

Remixing Western Music History

01 May 2023 sequence. Authority, in this case, is inscribed in the music itself, not least through the concept of Werktreue.3James Parakilas, “Texts, Contexts, and Non-Texts in Music History Pedagogy,” in Vitalizing Music History Teaching, ed. James R. Briscoe...

Cambridge Handbooks - Welcome New Resources

30 April 1993 renditions of a single jazz "standard" -- "standard," after all, is nothing but the jazz word for "classic"? authors: James Parakilas author_ids: 777 authors: James Parakilas author_ids: 777

In the Matter of Anniversaries . . .

30 April 1997 the Newsletter. I thank my editor, K Stolba, for her wonderful support and my readers for their indulgence. authors: James Parakilas author_ids: 777 authors: James Parakilas author_ids: 777

Concerning Biographies...

01 January 1995 to one of the most compelling parts of music history, the history of myth-making about performers' lives. authors: James Parakilas author_ids: 777 authors: James Parakilas author_ids: 777

[i]Keeping Together in Time: Dance and Drill in Human History[/i], by William Mcneill

31 October 1996 religious ecstasy and mass exercise), we can make political arguments in favor of music in these terms, too. authors: James Parakilas author_ids: 777 authors: James Parakilas author_ids: 777

FestivalOrgan: King of Instruments

31 August 1996 more details write The Westfield Center, One Cottage Street, Easthampton, MA 01027-1658 or phone 413-527-7664. authors: James Parakilas author_ids: 777 authors: James Parakilas author_ids: 777

[i]Art and the Committed Eye - The Cultural Functions of Imagery[/i], by Richard Leppert

30 April 1996 besides bringing the pleasures of the unfamiliar, is the best way to find out something about one's own. authors: James Parakilas author_ids: 777 authors: James Parakilas author_ids: 777

[i]Heartland Excursions: Ethnomusicological Reflections on Schools of Music[/i], by Bruno Nettl

29 February 1996 the music-teaching profession, we are not going to stop needing whatever guidance Bruno Nettl can give us. authors: James Parakilas author_ids: 777 authors: James Parakilas author_ids: 777

Review: Microsoft Musical Instruments and Igor Stravinsky – The Rite of Spring

01 January 1994 provide us and our students with a way to get used to the new medium and a goad to imagine new uses for it. authors: James Parakilas author_ids: 777 authors: James Parakilas author_ids: 777

[i]The New Grove Dictionary of Opera[/i]

31 August 1993 to give equal standing to subjects that, for whatever reason, have never had much place in our dictionaries. authors: James Parakilas author_ids: 777 authors: James Parakilas author_ids: 777

Teaching Introductory Music Courses with a "More Comprehensive Perspective"

01 October 1990 ways—talks at professional meetings, articles in journals—to publish their ideas for the general benefit. authors: James Parakilas author_ids: 777 authors: James Parakilas author_ids: 777

From Poem to Performance: Brahms's "Edward" Ballade, Op. 10, No. 1

01 October 2008 in dialogue form and concludes with a second, even more dramatic, climax. It is these divergent endings that lead James Parakilas to reject a programmatic reading entirely: "[S]ince the sensational revelation at the end of the poem is an inescapable...

An Outsider’s Guide to Classical Music: Teaching the Western Canon as “Other”

01 October 2009 seek out more. It is reassuring to hear this view expressed by a musicologist and teacher as experienced and ardent as James Parakilas: Those of us who teach introductory music courses can free ourselves of the audience-building goal, trusting that...

Beyond Intro: Further Roles for Music in the Liberal Arts Core

27 August 2012 course; and any of these would supplement (rather than replace) the conventional introductory course in music. James Parakilas's lavishly illustrated Piano Roles13 is a text I have sometimes used as part of the music major/minor music history sequence...

Music as Life-Saving Project: Venezuela’s El Sistema in American Neo-Idealistic Imagination

28 April 2014 Idolatry, and the Piano Virtuoso: Franz Liszt.” In Piano Roles: Three Hundred Years of Life with the Piano. Edited by James Parakilas et al. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. Lesniak, Melissa. “El Sistema and American Music Education,”...

The Ins and Outs of Teaching Composition: 1957-2007

01 October 2009 Campion, Chris Chafe, Evan Chambers, Joseph Dubiel, David Felder, Brad Garton, John Gibson, James Mobberly, Erica Muhl, James Parakilas, Russell Pinkston, James Paul Sain, Steven Stucky, Jay Alan Yim, and Scott Wyatt. And of course thanks to Paul...

A Time to Review Standards

30 April 2005 that will become part of this process. The members are James Briscoe, Judith Coe, Scott Lipscomb, Severine Neff, James Parakilas, Brenda Romero, Cynthia Taggart, and Robert Werner. Although not all of the Societys members teach in an institution that...

The Challenges of Multimedia in the Music Curriculum

31 August 1994 to be a mistake for the growth of this industry. In reviewing two CD-ROM music applications for the CMS Newsletter, James Parakilas is justified in questioning the current commercial standard, which is geared primarily toward presentation rather than...