Assuming john is required, and e is required, and taylor is required, the following 36 results were found.
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Integration, Diversity, and Creativity in Current Music Theory Pedagogy Research
The Manifesto presents a number of claims about the current teaching practices of music theory and aural skills faculty across the country. In pursuit of a greater understanding of the current pedagogical practices in music theory as reflected by...
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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 Global DJ Project and the Blank Canvas: World Music, Memory and Meaning
Abstract1 “The blank canvas” is a hypothetical psychoacoustic adaptation strategy which enables latter day American listeners to survive and even thrive within an environment of extreme musical diversity. This diversity is as much historical as it is...
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Poking the Pillars: A Preliminary Evaluation of Integration, Diversity, and Creativity
An earlier version of this article was presented as part of the special session, "Integration, Diversity, and Creativity: Reflections on the 'Manifesto' from The College Music Society," at the Society for Music Theory annual meeting, St. Louis, October...
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An Ethnomusicologist's Reflections on "Complexity" and "Participation" in Music
I. "One of the distinctive facts about contemporary history is that it is world history and that the forces shaping it cannot be understood unless we are prepared to adopt world-wide perspectives; and this means not merely supplementing our...
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A Study in Jazz Historiography: [i]The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz[/i]
A Study in Jazz Historiography: The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz * The word monumental has been overused in recent years in connection with the New Grove Dictionaries, but there seems to be no adequate substitute for describing the new addition to the...
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Graduate Students as Untapped Resources
can facilitate the communication between the university and the surrounding community. This interaction, according to John E. Taylor, is generally regarded as mutually beneficial.2 Louis F. Chenette points up that the community is ". . . much more than...
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Teaching Embodied Musickmaking: Pedagogical Perspectives from South Asian Music and Dance
Embodied cognition posits that the mind and body function as a single entity and that all aspects of the mind are shaped by the body. Embodied pedagogy, influenced by embodied cognition, realizes the role of the body and its relationship to the mind...
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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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Abstract In this article, the authors put forward a Conceptual Model of Independent Studio Production (ISP) in undergraduate music technology courses. Independent Studio Production reflects the increasingly multifaceted nature of the recording...
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From its beginnings in the seventeenth century, American higher education has had a somewhat uneasy and self-conscious relationship with the world beyond the academy. Through the years, critics have sometimes invoked terms such as "real world" and...
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The Shock of the Familiar: Hearing Ourselves in Others' Voices
Introduction1 Thank you, President Harding, the Board of Directors, and members of The College Music Society. I was truly honored, and unnerved, when Tayloe approached me about delivering the Robert Trotter Lecture at your annual meeting. You see, I've...
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“And when his hand he had stretch’d forth To mine, with pleasant looks, whence I was cheer’d, Into that secret place he led me on.”1 Venturing across disciplines in musical practice and pedagogy is often seen as a path fraught with peril, yet the...
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Needs for Research in Black-American Music
Traditionally, the American musicologist engaged in historical research has concentrated upon the scientific study of art music in the western European tradition, focusing his attention primarily upon the "great musical work" produced by great masters...
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In Defense of Context in Jazz History: A Response to Mark Gridley
In his article "Misconceptions in Linking Free Jazz with the Civil Rights Movement" (Vol. 47 [Fall 2007]: 139-55), Mark Gridley denies any substantive connection between the civil rights movement of the late 1950s and 1960s and the style of black music...
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A Look at Women’s Status in Music Academia
In the early twentieth century, Australia’s first female music doctorate, Ruby Davy (1883 - 1949), was denied academic appointment. Australia’s academic institutions refused to hire her although she had been an excellent student and had received...