John Deal
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[i]Music in the Baroque[/i], by Wendy Heller
Music in the Baroque (Western Music in Context: A Norton History) [Paperback] Publication Date: July 31, 2013 | ISBN-10: 0393929175 | ISBN-13: 978-0393929171 Anthology for Music in the Baroque (Western Music in Context: A Norton History) Publication...
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Speaking with conviction about the musical substance of times long past is not easy. Speculating about how that music may have been experienced by its contemporaries is even more difficult, and thus musicology's most astute figures have warned...
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Is Education In Music for All Individuals is Every Musician’s Responsibility?
now, when? I look forward with great anticipation to further discussion of this topic at our national conference. authors: John Deal author_ids: 267 authors: John Deal author_ids: 267
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The State of Collegium in America
Between September and December of 1974, as preliminary research for a forthcoming book on the Collegium, I explored the activities of early music ensembles and their directors on campuses of 30 American Colleges and Universities.1 Like most of my...
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Review Essay of Books on Choral Music
Prescriptions for Choral Excellence: Tone, Text, Dynamic Leadership, by Shirlee Emmons and Constance Chase. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 334 p. ISBN 0-19-518242-1. Hearing Bach's Passions, by Daniel R. Melamed. Oxford and New...
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These days, it seems everywhere one turns, issues and themes related to sexuality are in evidence. Movies from the unlikeliest of sources are circulating the country on gay themes—A Jihad for Love—that deals with the problems faced by gay men and...
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Now that jazz is achieving respectability in educational circles and analysts are applying their diverse techniques to improvised solos, it is appropriate to review what is being done in jazz analysis and to suggest a direction for the future. The...
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The Composer in Academia: Reflections on a Theme of Stravinsky
Bobby Klein photo—Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. "I would warn young composers too, Americans especially, against university teaching. . . ."Igor Stravinsky Editor's Foreword Even a glance at the twenty-three essays that follow will suffice to show that a...
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Advanced Group Instruction: Some Implications for Teacher Training
During the past thirty years there has been an unprecedented growth of interest in group piano instruction throughout the United States. In college piano classes, preparatory departments, and many private studios, teachers are increasingly turning to...
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Americans have been writing about the history of music, and about the history of American music, for almost a hundred years. As we approach the centenary we might well ask ourselves such questions as these: How have American music historians regarded...
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As The College Music Society reaches its fiftieth anniversary, it is fitting that we look back on developments in college music teaching over its first fifty years. In the teaching of music history, I see five major areas of change during that time:...
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Composition Before Rameau: Harmony, Figured Bass, and Style in the Baroque
The relationships between music history, music theory, and composition at times seem so tenuous today that it is easy to forget that those three areas of specialization have split off from one another only recently, and that the practice of one can...
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A Primer for Atonal Set Theory
A Primer for Atonal Set Theory1 Atonal set theory has a bad reputation. Like Schenkerian analysis in its earlier days, set theory has had an air of the secret society about it, with admission granted only to those who possess the magic password, a...
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Issues Regarding the Teaching of Non-Western Performance Traditions Within the College Music Curriculum1 While still in its early development, the move towards multi-cultural education in this country is already having considerable impact on music...
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Design for Change: Creating Significant Learning Experiences in the Music Classroom
Education in music is most sovereign, because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the inmost soul and take strongest hold upon it, bringing with them and imparting grace, if one is rightly trained, and otherwise the...
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And Now We Begin—A Survey of Recent Theory Texts
The 1960s were a time for reexamination of the aims, contents and methods of college courses designed to teach music theory, and, as a corollary, of the texts intended for those courses. Several factors contributed to the creation of a "crisis in the...
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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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"So You Want to Write a Canon?" An Historically-Informed New Approach for the Modern Theory Class
Introduction Canonic writing has been part of the education of music students for centuries. Considered a routine means of elaborating primary musical material in the Renaissance,2 it maintained an important place in the didactic writings of later...
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College Applied Faculty: The Disjunction of Performer, Teacher, and Educator
College applied studio teaching has been examined, evaluated, and criticized in recent decades, but it has remained in place, unchanged in most ways due to the inherent “conserving” nature of the music conservatory, or to what Schlueter refers to as an...
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Empirical Reality Versus the Systems Malady
Colleges and universities are known worldwide as centers for formal research as well as for informal thought about “what is” and “what is not.” They don’t always fulfill this mission with precision, but the search persists. Unfortunately, although...
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