Assuming john is required, and w is required, and white is required, the following 63 results were found.
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Janáček's [i]Nursery Rhymes[/i] as a Compendium of His Compositional Style
Leoš Janáček's ebullient Nursery Rhymes [Řikadla] (1925-27) occupy a unique position in the composer's output. Although they are among his very last works (followed only by From the House of the Dead and the Second String Quartet), the Nursery Rhymes...
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The Indian Music Debate and "American" Music in the Progressive Era
A little over a hundred years ago, composers and music critics in the United States launched a debate about the viability of an idiomatically American music and whether its roots could be found in folk music. One of the roots under discussion was music...
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Accentuate the Negative? On Teaching Biographical Details in Jazz History
Abstract Jazz history professors and book authors may be prejudicing their students’ impressions of jazz by including negative biographical information about the major musicians. This author scrutinizes biographical presentations that are unnecessarily...
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Abstract Music instruction in the college and the conservatory is dominated by the ancient master-apprentice model of instruction, which has problematic cultural and pedagogical ramifications. This essay first investigates apprenticeship from...
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Looking Through a Musical Lens: Music, Identity and Culture in Texas
Introduction1 During the 2010 and 2011 spring semesters we team-taught an upper-elective undergraduate interdisciplinary course at Baylor University entitled "Music and Identity in Texas Culture." As far as we could ascertain, a class of this nature...
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Abstract In an 1882 article in the American suffrage newspaper, The Woman’s Journal, Thomas Wentworth Higginson expressed outrage that the Mendelssohn family had discouraged Fanny Hensel from composing and that her music had been published under Felix...
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who want to hear the top ten pop, country, urban, or rock hits" (Barnes, 44). 32Rothenbuhler and McCourt, 106. authors: John W. White author_ids: 824 authors: John W. White author_ids: 824
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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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There is a greater need than pianoforte teachers and singing teachers, and that is a numerous company of writers and talkers who shall teach the people how to listen to music so that it shall not pass through their heads like a vast tonal...
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The Musical World of Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard's life (1098-1179) spans most of the twelfth century, one of the richest and most fascinating periods in cultural and intellectual history. Among the distinguished personages of this century are Dante Alighieri, Peter Abelard and his wife...
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Julius Weiss: Scott Joplin's First Piano Teacher
In writing musical biographies and in tracing the influence of one musical generation upon another, musicologists have traditionally spent considerable time and effort to investigate teacher-student relationships. Until recently this seems to have been...
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The Newberry Library, Chicago, contains a distinguished music collection, rare book, manuscript, and print holdings, and archives relevant both to the United States (and its Indian populations) and to the city of Chicago. Thus it is understandable that...
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Music Education in Historical Perspective: Status, Non-Musicians, and the Role of Women
In a fundamental sense, all musicians are educators, whether we acknowledge it or even intend it.1 It is our students and purposes that vary. Consequently, the music education profession traditionally refers to only those individuals who prepare music...
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The Decline of Serialism and the New Romanticism: Control and Chance in the New Music
The wisest thing to do is to open one's ears immediately and hear a sound suddenly before one's thinking has a chance to turn it into something logical, abstract, or symbolical.1 The mention of the word "romanticism" has, for the greater portion of our...
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Abstract In the field of ethnomusicology, the study of children’s music has long been overlooked which leads to a lack of understanding of the complex contexts of children’s musical worlds. Therefore it is imperative that we explore the historical and...
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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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Abstract While serial music is a mainstay of college instruction in both music theory and music history courses, many people still struggle to find a human connection to the compositional practice. This article explores metaphorical connections between...
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The Teacher's Guide to Recent Recordings of Music by Black Composers
This discography is restricted to "concert" music by composers of African ancestry, regardless of the country of their birth. I acknowledge immediately that several of the figures listed are represented on recordings by works in other genres (e.g.,...
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The "Indian" Operas of Charles Wakefield Cadman
Charles Wakefield Cadman is best known today for his popular-style ballads which achieved a remarkable commercial success in the early decades of the twentieth century. What is less well known is that Cadman considered his primary talent to be in the...
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How the human mind structures its complex environment is a topic that has been explored for generations by individuals from a wide variety of disciplines. Musicians now seem to be generally aware that pattern perception is highly relevant to their...
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