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The Learning Process and Teaching
Most of us teach instinctively. We assume that if we know our material well and speak clearly we will be teaching, and learning will somehow take place. The reality is that we are probably doing rather well most of the time on a combination of...
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What Would Beethoven Google? Primary Sources in the Twenty-First Century Classroom
Abstract Scholars rely on primary sources as the foundation of credible research. Sometimes, however, the incorporation of primary sources as fodder for learning in the undergraduate music classroom is overlooked, and instructors miss the opportunity...
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Who's Pushing Your Web Surfboard?
Dear Squeak and Blat, Someone asked me the other day if I was using any "push" clients on my computer. I assured him that no one was pushing me around or messing with items on my computer! I really had no idea what this meant. What is this "push" thing...
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Paul Hindemith as Director of the Yale Collegium Musicum
During the spring of 1946 posters announcing a concert of 14th and 15th century music for Monday, the 20th of May, appeared at various places on the Yale campus. The program was to be given in Sprague Memorial Hall by the "Students of Advanced Theory"...
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Turning Tables: Engineering the Vinyl Revival
Abstract With all forms of media in the world seemingly destined to become digital, a growing segment of the music industry is pushing to ensure analog is not forgotten through a recent revival of vinyl records. As compact disc sales continue to...
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Resources for the Opera Workshop
Opera is alive and welland living in Baltimore, Boston, and Bloomington! With more than 901 performing groups, both amateur and professional, giving 6,673 performances of opera in the United States during the 1973-74 season,1 the habitual...
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RCMI/CUNY: The Research Center for Musical Iconography of the City University of New York
The Research Center for Musical Iconography was established in the spring of 1972 under the auspices of the Ph.D. Program in Music at the City University of New York, to augment the facilities for music research within the University and to serve as...
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Facilitating Community Engagement in a University School of Music: A Self-Evaluation
Abstract The School of Music (SOM) at a large Midwestern university began a small grants program in 2009 to integrate community engagement into the teaching, research, and service missions of the SOM. To be successful, grant proposers needed to...
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Beats Music: A New Subscription Streaming Service Business Model Takes the Stage
Introduction Over the last several years the monetization of a revenue source through streaming for recording artists and labels has been in a state of flux. The sales of digital downloads continues to decline according to the 2013 Recording Industry...
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[i]The Monograph Series[/i], from the American Choral Directors Association
Monograph No. 1: Guide for the Beginning Choral Director, by the American Choral Directors Association National Repertoire and Standards Committee Chairs, Gordon H. Lamb, Chair. Lawton, Oklahoma: American Choral Directors Association, 1972. iii + 41...
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[i]American Popular Music and Its Business: The First Four Hundred Years[/i], by Russell Sanjek
American Popular Music and Its Business: The First Four Hundred Years, by Russell Sanjek. Volume I: The Beginning to 1790. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. xvi + 469 pp. ISBN 0-19-504028-7 Volume II: From 1790 to 1900. New York: Oxford...
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Amerigrove's Pedigree: On [i]The New Grove Dictionary of American Music[/i]
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...
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Teaching Teachers of Music Appreciation—What We Can Learn from MGS Pedagogy
Introduction: The DA Degree The Doctor of Arts (DA) degree was launched in the late 1960's in an effort to offer a degree that specifically prepared graduate students for college and university teaching. While practitioners of other doctoral-degree...
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Problems in the Evaluation of College Teaching in Music
Evaluation of college music instruction must be performed to assess the work of several different missions pursued by college music faculty. In the typical college music department, the main missions are those of the academic teachers of music classes,...
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[i]Judith[/i] and the Louisville Orchestra: The Rest of the Story
Introduction Musicians and scholars who lived through the late 1940s and early 1950s witnessed an astounding activity which took place in Louisville, Kentucky during that time. An ambitious effort by civic and musical leaders yielded an extraordinary...
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Voice teachers of the College Music Society, rejoice! Your efforts, far from being lost in the cultural wilderness of middle America, are instead bearing fruit in the distant vineyards of the European opera houses. Opera is alive and well and making a...
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Our Challenge for the Eighties
I hope you will forgive me the use of a recent but already worn cliché, but before addressing the challenge for the decade ahead of us I think it appropriate to reflect upon our present status as we begin the year 1980. The cliché to which I refer is...
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A Laugh a Minuet: Humor in Late Eighteenth-Century Music
Give a musician even half a musical witticism and he'll laugh—often sorrowfully, much to the bemusement of the audience around him. Bring up the subject of funny music and he'll produce an arm's length list of examples of comic sounds. Yet to make a...
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Memory Problems for Musical Performers
A fear of memory loss is extremely common among performers. Many are loath to admit to it, as if to do so would cause it to happen. Whether acknowledged or not, the anxiety is evident in dreams, jokes, and off-hand comments which express the sense of...
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