Assuming john is required, and w is required, and white is required, the following 63 results were found.
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Many features of music contribute to its positive potential for promoting social harmony. But music’s influence on human interaction is not entirely benign. I consider features of music that enable it to serve such contrary projects, beginning by...
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Black, Brown, and Beige: One Piece of Duke Ellington's Musical and Social Legacy
For this article, I chose Black, Brown, and Beige, and the critics' reactions to it, as a starting point from which to discuss Ellington's efforts to change negative perceptions about African Americans and the conditions under which they lived. The...
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Appreciation Without Apologies
Admit it: music appreciation is square. In the recent film comedy School of Rock, when a bumbling rocker somehow gets a job teaching at a stuffy prep school and begins teaching classes in "rock history and appreciation," what's funny is how the film...
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Amerigrove's Pedigree: On [i]The New Grove Dictionary of American Music[/i]
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...
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Berg, Strindberg, and D Minor1 Berg's fusion of tonality and atonality is a notable feature of his musical language, and the key of D minor appears with surprising regularity. D minor can be found in various of his early unpublished piano sonatas, in...
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Motivational Leadership Theories Applied to Music Pedagogy
The twin issues of motivation and leadership strategy are among the most significant and relevant concerns in music pedagogy. Yet, the average music teacher has, at best, only a passing acquaintance with the body of research and data available in these...
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Evaluating Music Performance: Politics, Pitfalls, and Successful Practices
Background Evaluation is an integral component of music performance and instruction, an activity in which musicians engage at many levels, ranging from processes that are very informal and spontaneous to very formal processes that occur within highly...
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[i]Ethnomusicology Scholarship and Teaching[/i] - Neurodiversity and the Ethnomusicology of Autism
Abstract In this article, I explore how musical experience and an emergent ethnomusicology of autism can provide both people with autism and their neurotypical counterparts with opportunities to collectively live, model, and promote an epistemology of...
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Tempo Choices in Mozart’s Minuets: Considerations from a Conductor’s Point of View
Abstract This article focuses on the two main types of minuets by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart—Tempo di Menuetto and Menuetto Allegretto—that appear in his symphonic works and in his pieces for dance accompaniment. Drawing on primary sources by Johann...
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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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And Now an Ideology from Our Sponsor: Musical Style and Semiosis in American Television Commercials
for eighteenth century music. However, my list is not historical, but reflects "contemporary" musical style. See also John W. White's use of a similar list in this issue, pp. 3-4. 16Nicholas Cook, "Music and Meaning in the Commercials," Popular Music 13...
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What Would Beethoven Google? Primary Sources in the Twenty-First Century Classroom
Abstract Scholars rely on primary sources as the foundation of credible research. Sometimes, however, the incorporation of primary sources as fodder for learning in the undergraduate music classroom is overlooked, and instructors miss the opportunity...
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Two-Piano Music Around Beethoven's Time: Its Significance for the College Teacher
College music instructors face an ongoing challenge to provide their students with experiences that will lead to growth in musicianship. An effective means to achieve this growth is through ensemble performance. Such active music making with others is...
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I In his article, "Music Theory: A single or multiple view?",1 Roland Jackson makes a persuasive case for a diversified rather than a unified approach to analysis. His argument is especially pertinent to music of transitional periods, which, by its...
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An Analysis of Triadic Post-tonality in Sky Macklay’s [i]Many Many Cadences[/i] for String Quartet
Abstract Emerging composer Sky Macklay has written a string quartet entitled Many Many Cadences (2014) which inventively combines the basic operations of neo-Riemannian triadic transformations and voice leading (e.g., Parallel (P), Leading-tone (L),...
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Analysis for Performance: Teaching a Method for Practical Application
One of the more difficult tasks facing the college music theory teacher is linking analysis with performance. Too often students do not understand the connection between the analytical techniques they learn in theory classes and the decisions they make...
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Abstract Arts integration provides musical ensembles a unique and creative way to meet learning objectives in music and other content areas while developing skills of the “Framework of 21st Century Learning.” This article describes the process...
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RCMI/CUNY: The Research Center for Musical Iconography of the City University of New York
The Research Center for Musical Iconography was established in the spring of 1972 under the auspices of the Ph.D. Program in Music at the City University of New York, to augment the facilities for music research within the University and to serve as...
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Debussy's Canope as Narrative Form
of Music (New York and London, 1988); Ernö Lendvai, Béla Bartók: An Analysis of His Style (London, 1971), 291-306; and John W. White, Processes of Structuring in Selected Free Improvisations of the Chamber Ensemble Oregon (Ph.D. diss., Indiana...
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Women as Leaders of Collegiate Bands, 1850-1980
June 6, 1661 . . . Called upon this morning by Lieutenant Lambert who is now made captain of the Norwich and he and I went down by water to Greenwich, in our way observing and discoursing upon the things of a ship, he telling me all I asked him, which...
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