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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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Where the Dark and Light Folks Meet: Race and the Mythology, Politics and Business of Jazz, by Randall Sandke. Scarecrow, 2010. 275 pages with index and notes. Clothbound; ISBN 978-0-8108-6652-2; $40. Randall Sandke's Where the Dark and Light Folks...
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Misconceptions in Linking Free Jazz with the Civil Rights Movement
This article deals with two misunderstandings that intertwine to confuse students, teachers, and commentators of jazz history if they study American history at the same time that they study the music itself. The first misunderstanding is that during...
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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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The Suzuki Violin School: Past, Present, and Possible Future
Abstract According to the International Suzuki Association, by 2024, all ten books of the Suzuki violin method’s International Edition will have been published (https://internationalsuzuki.org/violin). Scholarship engaged with the method largely...
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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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Music for St. Cecilia’s Day: From Purcell to Handel, by Brian White
Music for St. Cecilia’s Day: From Purcell to Handel. Bryan White. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2019. Xx, 377 pp. IBSN: 9781787445031. $80.00. At first glance, there appears nothing enigmatic about music composed for St. Cecilia’s Day in early modern...
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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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Multi-Linear Continuity and "Songs to the Dark Virgin" by Florence Price [1888-1953]
Abstract The poem “Songs to the Dark Virgin,” composed by Langston Hughes and included in his 1926 volume The Weary Blues, presents an obscure and complex text that seems to address an ambiguous second-person entity, the “Dark Virgin.” In this article...
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Remaking previous hits has long been a staple in commercial pop music. It is a formula that has repeatedly proven successful for both well-known and newly-emerging artists. A tune's commercial value increases if it can appeal, in a repackaged version,...
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The Musical World of Hildegard of Bingen
10This mixture of lovemaking and religion has Freudian implications which are beyond the scope of this article. authors: John White author_ids: 982 authors: John White author_ids: 982
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The Crystallization of the New, New Music at UCSD
1. Ever-New California In 1966 work began on widening the road leading from a sleepy San Diego beach community, La Jolla Shores, up to the area where an infant university, the University of California San Diego (UCSD), was quickly developing. The road...
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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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Family Values: The Lomax Family and American Folksong
The Alan Lomax Collection: Sampler. Rounder Records CD 1700. The Alan Lomax Collection: Southern Journey, Volumes 1-13. Rounder Records CD 1701-1713. The Last Cavalier: The Life and Times of John A. Lomax, by Nolan Porterfield. Urbana: University of...
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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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Many music organizations, conferences, and schools have been struggling to find an appropriate response to the Black Lives Matter movement as it pertains to music. Musical communities, classroom music teachers, college professors, professional...
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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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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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