John Deal
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A Report on Six European Conservatories
During the 1966-67 academic year, I traveled in Western Europe, visiting six Conservatories of music in order to observe at first hand the professional education of European musicians. The institutions visited were: AMSTERDAMSCH...
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Music and Higher Education in the 1970's: A Needed Change in Attitude
This paper was part of a panel presentation for The College Music Society at the University of Toronto on November 7, 1970 entitled Music and Higher Education in the 1970's. Chairman of the panel was William J. Mitchell. The other panelists were Mantle...
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Some Observations on Music Lexicography
Bibliography is a field in which one should expect a high level of accuracy and precision. It is, or should be, the province of specialists in the organization of information. Yet bibliographical terms in common usage are subject to an uncommon degree...
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Report on T. A. Workshops at Cornell University
In five years of teaching music in colleges, both independently and under supervision, I was given little help in developing the skills I needed to teach. My undergraduate and graduate education gave me good preparation in the content I would be...
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A Survey of Music History Texts
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...
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Reconceiving Theory: The Analysis of Tone Color
I. BACKGROUND It is hard to imagine a more interesting moment to be a music theorist. This is the result of a unique obligation and opportunity: the urgent need for a wide-ranging reconception of music theory. It results from convergence of four recent...
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A New Concept in the Teaching of Opera
A traditional course in opera, whether for music or non-music students, is generally based on the standard repertoire of Italian, French, and German works. Such a course tends to focus on the musical score at the expense of the complete story and the...
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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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Interpretation through Style Analysis
Interpretation through Style Analysis1 From the historian's point of view, a composer writes his music in the context of a style. This means that the resources available to him and his contemporaries comprise a normative language, a common domain of...
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Music and the Mass Media—An Informal Report from the Twelfth Congress of the IMS
For the first time in sixteen years, the United States played host to a Congress of the International Musicological Society attended by scholars, performers, and professors from thirty-three different nations many of which had not existed in 1961, the...
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Towards a More Rigorous Methodology for the Analysis of the Pre-Tonal Repertory
Many music theorists believe that the purpose of musical analysis is to explicate the logical, rational organization of musical compositions and to study syntactic relationships present in these works through consideration of the correspondences...
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Music, Myth and Man: A New Concept of Teaching Music Appreciation
In the struggle to give the wishes of my heart artistic shape, . . . my studies thus bore me, through the legends of the Middle Ages, right down to their foundation in the old Germanic myths. . . . What here I saw was no longer the Figure of...
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The Ballad Style in the Early Music of the Beatles
The role of popular music in the college curriculum has always been somewhat vague and ill-defined. When, in the late 1960s, college courses in popular music were added to the traditional offerings in western art music, ethnomusicology, and jazz, the...
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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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Musical Performance and Scholarship in Higher Education
In higher education today there exists an apparent dilemma involving the role and function of the performing musician as a member of the university community. The purpose of this article is to present and explicate the problem and to suggest a way to...
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Sociomusicology: A Status Report
The study of music has evolved over the years into a domain with distinct divisions, each concerned with a specific perspective. Historical musicology has as its focus the sequential, chronological development of music. Ethnomusicology examines music...
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I never heard that before! With that comment about a passage whose relationships he had just become aware of, a gifted student began to evaluate a piece by Brahms as "beautiful" instead of "just nice." In just this way many differences in "aesthetic...
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As music educators we recognize the importance of having a finely developed aesthetic sense. We understand what music means to us and the reason for its value, both to children and adults, and therefore to the school curriculum. Throughout the history...
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Feminist Scholarship and the Field of Musicology: I
Feminist Scholarship and the Field of Musicology: I1 In a study entitled Feminist Scholarship: Kindling in the Groves of Academe, five authors surveyed recent scholarship in the fields of anthropology, education, history, literature, and philosophy in...
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Berg, Strindberg, and D Minor1 Berg's fusion of tonality and atonality is a notable feature of his musical language, and the key of D minor appears with surprising regularity. D minor can be found in various of his early unpublished piano sonatas, in...
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