Toru Takemitsu and the Unity of Opposites

01 October 1990 It is only since Japan's recovery from the second world war that Japanese composers have fully assimilated the Western musical vocabulary, obscuring the traditional distinctions between Western and Japanese music. Of the generation of composers...

Problems in the Evaluation of College Teaching in Music

01 October 1992 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,...

Lessons from a World: Balinese Applied Music Instruction and the Teaching of Western "Art" Music

01 October 1993 Lessons from a World: Balinese Applied Music Instruction and the Teaching of Western "Art" Music1 The teacher does not seem to teach, certainly not from our standpoint. He is merely the transmitter; he simply makes concrete the musical idea which is to...

Composers' Revisions and the Creative Process

01 October 1993 How do composers write music? To what extent can we explain their thought processes? Ever since Nottebohm's pioneering excavations of Beethoven's sketchbooks, musicologists and theorists have tried to find answers in composers' sketches and drafts....

Schoenberg's Theoretical Writings after the Harmonielehre: A Study of the Published and Unpublished Manuscripts

01 October 1993 Contemporary critics have described Schoenberg the theorist by focusing on his analytic concerns with surface motives.l It is my contention that hitherto unpublished manuscripts such as Der musikalische Gedanke und die Logik, Technik und Kunst seiner...

Rereading Absence: Women in Medieval and Renaissance Music

01 October 1998 During the last twenty years, a consideration of the roles of women and minorities in musical life has become increasingly central to the study of music. The "canon" of old has proven to have porous boundaries, with works by women composers and by...

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...

Response to Frederick Bashour

01 October 1999 Dr. Bashour has a sure grasp of modal history as well as the jazz repertory, its techniques and jargon, so I welcome his response. He does a splendid job of confirming the initial premise of my argument, that the Miles Davis pieces don't live up to the...

Debussy's Canope as Narrative Form

01 October 2002 I Claude Debussy's twenty-four Préludes are among the composer's last and best-known works for piano. They were composed and published in two books of twelve; Book 1 was published in 1910 and Book 2 in 1913. These preludes are well known for the unique...

Performance Anxiety: Constantin Stanislavski's Concept of Public Solitude

01 October 2008 HYSTERIUM: I'm calm, I'm calm, I'm perfectly calm, I'm utterly under control. I haven't a worry— Where others would hurry, I stroll. (HE runs frantically around the stage.) I'm calm, I'm cool, A gibbering fool Is something I never become! When thunder...

Amerigrove's Pedigree: On [i]The New Grove Dictionary of American Music[/i]

01 October 1987 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...

Samuel Barber: The Composer and His Music, by Barbara B. Heyman

01 October 1992 Samuel Barber: The Composer and His Music, by Barbara B. Heyman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. xviii + 586 pp. ISBN 0-19-506650-2. Barbara Heyman's study of the life and works of Samuel Barber continues the important trend in current music...

[i]Method of Organ Playing[/i], by Harold Gleason

01 October 1997 Method of Organ Playing, by Harold Gleason. Eighth edition. Ed. Catharine Crozier Gleason. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1996. xiv + 369 pp. ISBN 0-13-207531-8. In its sixty years of existence, Gleason's Method of Organ Playing has...

[i]The Monograph Series[/i], from the American Choral Directors Association

01 October 1999 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...

[i]Baker's Dictionary of Opera[/i], edited by Laura Kuhn

01 October 2000 Baker's Dictionary of Opera, edited by Laura Kuhn. New York: Schirmer Books, 2000. xvii+1047 pp. ISBN 0028653491. A quick search of library catalogues and Internet booksellers will uncover more than a dozen dictionaries of opera. What then would be the...

World Music Textbooks in the Twentieth Century

01 October 2000 Book title: Ancient and Oriental Music Book author: Wellesz, Egon, ed. ISBN: 0-1931-6301-2 TISBN: 0193163012 Book title: Festival of Oriental Music and the Related Arts Book author: Anon. Book title: Folk and Traditional Music of the Western Continents...

Reviews of Books on Jazz

01 October 2003 The Cambridge Companion to Jazz. Edited by Mervyn Cooke and David Horn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 403 p. ISBN 0-521-66320-2 (cloth); ISBN 0-521-66388-1 (paper). Jazz and the Germans: Essays on the Influence of "Hot" American Idioms...

Cambridge Handbooks - Welcome New Resources

30 April 1993 Cambridge University Press has now published more than a dozen of its Cambridge Music Handbooks, each volume devoted to a single work or, in a few cases, to a set of related works by one composer. There is nothing new about the idea of a book devoted...

College-Community Partnerships: The Engaged Campus

01 January 2002 The CMS Committee on Advocacy has led two significant initiatives for music advocacy on behalf of the College Music Society in recent months. Their purpose was to establish a firm and enduring presence for music in the dialogue of issues pertinent to...

Reconciling Values and Dollars in an Age of Declining Resources

01 January 2010 Now emerging from the 2008-2009 economic free-fall, academe faces a new reality, one that likely will define our fiscal landscape for some time to come. The question becomes, how will we guide ourselves in this time of limited-and limiting-resources,...