John Check
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[i]Music Theory Through Musical Theatre: Putting It Together[/i] by John Franceschina
a teacher would find—indeed, any teacher will find—much in the book of admirable depth and sober good sense. authors: John Check author_ids: 185 authors: John Check author_ids: 185
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Your Turn to Lead: Cultivating Student Leadership in Music Theory and Aural Skills
Introduction Universities and colleges aspire to equip students for leadership in their professions, and institutions frequently include leadership education in their statements of mission and purpose. According to Susan Komives and Matthew Sowcik...
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Multi-Linear Continuity and "Songs to the Dark Virgin" by Florence Price [1888-1953]
Abstract The poem “Songs to the Dark Virgin,” composed by Langston Hughes and included in his 1926 volume The Weary Blues, presents an obscure and complex text that seems to address an ambiguous second-person entity, the “Dark Virgin.” In this article...
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Reality Check: Professionalism and Entrepreneurship
As a freelance trombonist in Los Angeles, I have observed many musicians recently graduated from university programs. Many have abundant skills and are perfectly qualified to be.... music students. A substantially smaller number possess a professional...
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Poking the Pillars: A Preliminary Evaluation of Integration, Diversity, and Creativity
An earlier version of this article was presented as part of the special session, "Integration, Diversity, and Creativity: Reflections on the 'Manifesto' from The College Music Society," at the Society for Music Theory annual meeting, St. Louis, October...
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Jenny Lind and P. T. Barnum: A Success Story of Music, Business, and Philanthropy
Abstract Soprano Jenny Lind (1820–87), known as the “Swedish Nightingale,” toured the United States in 1850 under the auspices of “America’s Greatest Showman” and self-proclaimed “Prince of Humbug,” P. T. Barnum (1810–91). The tour was a phenomenal...
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Used diligently, it will strengthen their musicianship, enlarge their understanding—and heighten their wonder. authors: John Check author_ids: 185 authors: John Check author_ids: 185
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Integration, Diversity, and Creativity in Current Music Theory Pedagogy Research
The Manifesto presents a number of claims about the current teaching practices of music theory and aural skills faculty across the country. In pursuit of a greater understanding of the current pedagogical practices in music theory as reflected by...
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A Survey of Recent Publications Relating to Nineteenth-Century Music and Musicians
Anyone who has taught a course on romantic music deplores the scarcity of suitable texts. Not only is there no outstanding survey of the period, but with few exceptions we cannot even resort to completely reliable studies of particular genres or...
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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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Reassessing a Recital Heritage
The Bicentennial celebration provided American musicians with what was perhaps an unforeseen good turn: an impetus to make a retrospective evaluation of their musical heritage. Since a celebration by common agreement seems to demand the use of music,...
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Concurrent Collaborative Analysis: Integration of Technology for Peer-Learning
Collaborative Learning and the New Generation In the 2013 TI:ME article “The Me Me Me Generation,” Joel Stein describes the characteristics of Millennials, students born between 1980-2000. While Stein focuses the beginning of the article on the...
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Community and University Cooperation: Service Role and Support Factor
Each year, when faculty evaluations, promotion-tenure deliberations, and annual reports roll around, administrators and faculty alike pay dutiful and rightful homage to the trinity of academe: Teaching, Research, and Service. In seeking to establish a...
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From Faculty Member to Department Chair: Making the Transition to Administration
Abstract Each fall dozens of faculty in music departments around the country make the move from faculty member to administrator, most likely department “chair” or “head” depending on terminology in the particular institution. Few, if any, music faculty...
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Uncovering and Teaching the Process of Analysis to Undergraduate Music Theory Students
Abstract This article reports on the results of a three-year teaching and learning inquiry into pedagogical strategies for music analysis in a second-year required music theory course. I used Pace and Middendorf’s Decoding the Disciplines framework as...
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Finding Music Technology Bucks!
Dear Squeak and Blat, I have enjoyed your first few months of helpful hints. Help me with something I have wondered about. How do I find money to develop a music lab? It's clear at my school that everyone is excited about technology but the money...
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Music Historiography in the Classroom
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...
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The Woman in the Music (On Feminism as Theory and Practice)
The Woman in the Music 1 (On Feminism as Theory and Practice) At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars! The outside pattern, I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can...
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Where the Dark and Light Folks Meet: Race and the Mythology, Politics and Business of Jazz, by Randall Sandke. Scarecrow, 2010. 275 pages with index and notes. Clothbound; ISBN 978-0-8108-6652-2; $40. Randall Sandke's Where the Dark and Light Folks...
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Repertoire Choices in the Classroom: A Music Theory Teacher’s Perspective
Gena R. Greher's recent article in this journal (CMS 49-50, 2010) arguing for the use of rap music in the classroom prompted me to reflect on the music I use in my own classroom and my reasons for using it. That music is almost exclusively Western art...
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