John Deal
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Faculty Role and Academic Leadership in the 21st Century Music Department
Academic Freedom and Institutional Vitality In its first year of existence, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), led by a special committee appointed by its President, John Dewey, issued the landmark 1915 Declaration of Principles...
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Introduction: Genesis of the Program In teaching composition, I frequently say to my students, when they do not know what to write next in a piece, “Go back and look at what you have already written. Chances are that the idea for what to do next will...
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Abstract In this article I examine the developing role performance has played in ethnomusicological research and teaching from the early days of our field until the present. Until well into the 1950s ethnomusicologists primarily concerned themselves...
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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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Music Research in Puerto Rico Written by Donald Thompson Symposium Volume 23 All descriptions of native music in Puerto Rico in Precolumbian times and during the early colonial period are derived from the writings of a handful of observers. The first...
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Defending Music Theory in a Multicultural Curriculum
Defending Music Theory in a Multicultural Curriculum1 Music theory has served as the foundation for undergraduate music curricula in the United States for much of the past century. Within many music departments, it has been used to introduce students...
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Now That I’m Here, What Should I Do? Encouragement and Advice for New Department Chairs: Part 1
This Fall a group of music faculty has embarked upon a new career direction: academic leadership. The change may be temporary, such as a three-year assignment (or sentence, as some might think of it) as department chair, or the switch may have the...
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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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Letter to the Editor from Gridley, Mark
Dear Editor of College Music Symposium: Thank you for giving me the opportunity to reply to Brian Harker's article: "In Defense of Context in Jazz History: A Response to Mark Gridley" (CMS 48, pp. 157-159), which referred to my article in the previous...
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Interesting Lies and Curious Truths About Carl Ruggles
I suppose all of us as we get older tend to shade the truth a little about our backgrounds. To push and pull the facts a tiny bit, to suit the image we wish to create. But I doubt very much that many of us would create startling new myths about...
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Music Historiography in the Classroom
For the teacher of music history, no less than the teacher of any other subject, the selection of materials and methods for class use is an important decision. For the beginning instructor, the problem is especially acute, as he or she has no...
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Zoltán Kodály As Musician-Educator Exemplar: A Critique
I. BACKGROUND AND HISTORICAL CONSIDERATIONS Throughout the annals of recorded history relatively few composers of outstanding merit and magnitude have decidedly concerned themselves with the general musical education of the young—that is those masses...
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The First Movement of Beethoven's Opus 132 and the Classical Style
The First Movement of Beethoven's Opus 132 and the Classical Style* The works of Beethoven's last period, the years 1813-27 broadly defined, have come to occupy a special place in the history of Western music. They are thought to contain some of the...
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Music as Organic Evolution: Schoenberg's Mythic Springboard Into the Future
Although long an archetype of modern thought, biological evolution's eminent role has not always been an appropriate one: its convenience as a cover for all manner of processive change has often been abused. Arenas of thought once presumed accountable...
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Artistic Parallels between Arnold Schoenberg's Music and Painting (1908-1912)
I would like to express my appreciation to several people who helped in the preparation of this study: R. Wayne Shoaf, Archivist at the Arnold Schoenberg Institute, gave generous assistance at several stages; Nuria Schoenberg-Nono supplied valuable...
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Preliminaries In the 1990s, college music is undergoing radical curriculum reform in response to various calls to diversify subject matter and repertoire. Traditional programs of study are being challenged, and classical canons of repertoire broken...
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Paideia con Salsa: Charles Keil, Groovology, and the Undergraduate Music Curriculum
Despite being a professor in American Studies at SUNY-Buffalo for most of his academic life, Charles (Charlie) Keil’s (b. 1939) career was dominated by an interest in music and music education. His scholarly contributions took many forms, such as...
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Creating Music Curricula of the Future: Preparing Undergraduate Music Students to Engage
“Be Prepared” — Boy Scout and Girl Guide motto The concept of preparation implies readiness for as many eventualities as possible. Robert Baden-Powell, who inspired the Boy Scout movement with his book, Scouting for Boys, described preparation as being...
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Composing a Sound: Giacinto Scelsi’s L’âme ailée / L’âme ouverte for violin solo
As philosopher John Dewey has noted: "The moral function of art itself is to remove prejudice, do away with the scales that keep the eye from seeing, tear away the veils due to wont and custom, perfect the power to perceive. The critic's office is to...
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Music and Advertising in Seventeen Magazine, 1944-1981
Abstract Music had a prominent place in Seventeen from its first issue in September 1944, and music’s importance in the magazine reflects music’s importance in the lives of girls from the 1940s through the present day. Building on previous work by...
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