Women Orchestral Conductors in America: The Struggle for Acceptance—An Historical View from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

01 October 1998 Introduction Orchestral conducting has been the latest door of opportunity to open for women in the field of music. Although women have been actively involved in performance, composition, teaching, and patronage from the history of the ancient Greeks...

CD Review: [i]A Mozart Soirée: Divertimenti, Arias, and Nocturnes[/i]. Clarinet Classics, CC0069

26 September 2016 considerably poorer. Endnotes 1. Pamela Weston, Clarinet Virtuosi of the Past (London: Robert Hale, 1971), 34. authors: Jane Carl author_ids: 2692 authors: Jane Carl author_ids: 2692

The Mind's Ear: I Hear Music and No One Is Performing

03 October 2005 "He is a good musician, who understands the music without the score, and the score without the music. The ear should not need the eye, the eye should not need the (outward) ear."1 Hearing music in the mind's ear, without any sound source present, is a...

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...

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...

The Pedagogy of Early, Twentieth-Century Music: Ideas for a Classroom Discussion based on a Multi-Faceted Analysis of Scriabin's Op. 31, No. 4.

29 November 2016 Abstract The literature of the early part of the twentieth-century poses a unique set of pedagogical challenges when introducing it to the undergraduate population. On the one hand, there are elements that continue in the common-practice tradition,...

The Suzuki Violin School: Past, Present, and Possible Future

15 May 2024 Abstract According to the International Suzuki Association, by 2024, all ten books of the Suzuki violin method’s International Edition will have been published (https://internationalsuzuki.org/violin). Scholarship engaged with the method largely...

Freedom to Learn From Musical Experiences

01 October 1979 If I distrust the human being then I must cram him with information of my own choosing, lest he go his own mistaken way. But if I trust the capacity of the human individual for developing his own potentiality, then I can provide him with many...

Defending Music Theory in a Multicultural Curriculum

02 October 2006 Defending Music Theory in a Multicultural Curriculum1 Music theory has served as the foundation for undergraduate music curricula in the United States for much of the past century. Within many music departments, it has been used to introduce students...

Review Essay of Books on Song

31 August 2005 The Cambridge Companion to the Lied, by James Parsons, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 399 p. ISBN 0-521-80471-X. Shakespeare's Songbook, by Ross Duffin. New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2004. 528 p. ISBN 0-393-05889-1....

[i]Reflections on American Music: The Twentieth Century and The New Millennium[/i], edited by James R. Heintze and Michael Saffle

01 October 2003 Reflections on American Music: The Twentieth Century and The New Millennium, edited by James R. Heintze and Michael Saffle. CMS Monographs and Bibliographies in American Music, 16. Michael J. Budds, series editor. Hillsdale, New York: Pendragon Press,...

A Survey of Music History Texts

01 October 1974 This survey concerns available texts for the college History of Music course and includes only single-volume books in English, dealing with Western music, published or revised after 1950, and comprehensive in scope. It would be hard to take issue with...

Music Historiography in the Classroom

01 October 1979 For the teacher of music history, no less than the teacher of any other subject, the selection of materials and methods for class use is an important decision. For the beginning instructor, the problem is especially acute, as he or she has no...

Marie-Emmanuelle Bayon, Later Madame Louis, and Music in Late Eighteenth-Century France

01 October 1990 Recent research into the music of the Classic era continues to bring to light the lives and works of an increasing number of important composers and other musicians active in the latter half of the eighteenth century and the early nineteenth century....

Florentín Giménez’s [i]Misa folclórica paraguaya[/i]: A Liturgical Celebration through the Lens of Musical Nationalism

01 May 2021 Abstract Exemplifying his approach to musical nationalism, the Misa folclórica paraguaya (“Paraguayan Folkloric Mass”) of Florentín Giménez (1925–2021) combines elements of the Roman Catholic Mass with folkloric music idioms. Composed in 1990, this...