[i]American Composers: Alec Wilder[/i], by Philip Lambert

24 September 2015 Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2013 153 pp ISBN: 978-0-252-03760-3vb Philip Lambert’s thoroughly researched biographical analysis of Alec Wilder (1908-1980) fills a significant gap in the literature about a composer whose music and life present...

Art Music Activism: Aesthetic and Politics in 1930s New York City. Maria Cristina Fava. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2024

11 April 2025 Art Music Activism: Aesthetics and Politics in 1930s New York City. Maria Cristina Fava. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2024. 232 pp. 4 b&w photographs and 17 musical examples. ISBN: 9780252056574. $19.95. (Ebook) In Art Music Activism:...

Black, Brown, and Beige: One Piece of Duke Ellington's Musical and Social Legacy

01 October 2011 For this article, I chose Black, Brown, and Beige, and the critics' reactions to it, as a starting point from which to discuss Ellington's efforts to change negative perceptions about African Americans and the conditions under which they lived. The...

Looking Through a Musical Lens: Music, Identity and Culture in Texas

27 August 2012 Introduction1 During the 2010 and 2011 spring semesters we team-taught an upper-elective undergraduate interdisciplinary course at Baylor University entitled "Music and Identity in Texas Culture." As far as we could ascertain, a class of this nature...

Music Analysis in an Historical Context

01 October 1966 MUSIC ANALYSIS IN AN HISTORICAL CONTEXT1 The past three issues of the Journal of the American Musicological Society have carried installments of a spirited dialogue about the need for Criticism in History.2 This session of The College Music Society...

Paul Hindemith as Director of the Yale Collegium Musicum

01 October 1978 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"...

The Zitterbart Collection—A Legacy Unevaluated

01 October 1979 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, like so many other cities in the United States, seems to have lately come to a realization of the necessity for determining and preserving the contributions of its outstanding citizens. The unprecedented success of Stefan...

Carl Nielsen's Tonal Language: An Examination of the Piano Music

01 October 1982 Carl Nielsen, 1865-1931 Carl Nielsen's piano works span his career as a composer, beginning with the Five Piano Pieces (1890) and concluding with the Piano Music for Young and Old (1930) written less than a year before his death. Nielsen wrote five...

Motivational Leadership Theories Applied to Music Pedagogy

01 October 1985 The twin issues of motivation and leadership strategy are among the most significant and relevant concerns in music pedagogy. Yet, the average music teacher has, at best, only a passing acquaintance with the body of research and data available in these...

Technology, Culture, and Music

01 October 1995 Salsa is now a bigger seller than catsup in the United States. The imminent passing of the third millennium is seen by many as a symbol of renewal. This idea has special relevance for Western music which, in some very important respects, is...

[i]Music of the Middle Ages: Style and Structure[/i], by David Fenwick Wilson

01 October 1991 Music of the Middle Ages: Style and Structure, by David Fenwick Wilson. New York: Schirmer, 1990, xxii + 403 pp. ISBN 0-02-872951-X. In recent years professors of medieval music have had the good fortune of being able to choose from among several...

[i]Music Since 1945: Issues, Materials, and Literature[/i], by Elliott Schwartz and Daniel Godfrey

01 October 1995 Music Since 1945: Issues, Materials, and Literature, by Elliott Schwartz and Daniel Godfrey. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995. xvi + 640 pp. ISBN 0-06-019046-9. A review of an extensive review is in essence what the following combination of...

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

01 October 2009 There is a need to teach the young people who will be doing the science themselves, but this will always be a small minority among us. There is a deeper need to teach science to those who will be needed for thinking about it, and this means pretty...

The Ins and Outs of Teaching Composition: 1957-2007

01 October 2009 Thinking about the ins and outs of the teaching of composition during the past fifty years meant continuing a lively internal and external dialogue: What do composers need to know, and when do they need to know it? And, given the rock of the pop...

[i]Ethnomusicology Scholarship and Teaching[/i] - Neurodiversity and the Ethnomusicology of Autism

25 August 2014 Abstract In this article, I explore how musical experience and an emergent ethnomusicology of autism can provide both people with autism and their neurotypical counterparts with opportunities to collectively live, model, and promote an epistemology of...

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,...

From Incubation to Delivery: An Application of Project Management for the Music Industry

20 September 2020 Abstract Completing a music-related project is a complex endeavor that often encompasses many interdependent tasks within a team setting. One may subsequently ask how can such creative teams not only account for all the constraints linked with their...

Tempo Choices in Mozart’s Minuets: Considerations from a Conductor’s Point of View

09 November 2023 Abstract This article focuses on the two main types of minuets by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart—Tempo di Menuetto and Menuetto Allegretto—that appear in his symphonic works and in his pieces for dance accompaniment. Drawing on primary sources by Johann...

Convergences, no. 1

27 July 2012 Why should musical academe be interested in the music business and industry? As a source of financial resouces? That actually is a pretty good reason, but there are a great many artistic and cultural motivations as well, especially at this moment in...

Teaching Children to Read Music

01 October 1966 This article was part of a Symposium entitled Trends in Music Teaching. This discussion intends to convey to our readers current ideas on the newer trends in the teaching of music. Three of the articlesthis article, along with Music Education is Coming...