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With Love from Z to A: Fibich’s Love Diary for Piano
Editor, Scholarship and Research James A. Grymes Expand Article During his lifetime and in the years immediately following his death, Czech composer Zdeněk Fibich (1850–1900) was considered on a par with the more familiar Czech masters Bedřich Smetana...
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Employment Matters in Higher Jazz Education
Introduction Employment research is a ubiquitous feature in contemporary policy, economic, and business sectors. The higher education sector in the United States has tracked employment data for many decades, aided by organizations such as the American...
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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 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 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 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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Ruminations on the Center for Black Music Research
The Society’s invitation to speak about relationships between the Center for Black Music Research and the profession at-large is a distinct honor. I am delighted today to have the opportunity to outline a scholarly and musical journey that has taken...
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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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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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Ugh! Why Pink? A Brief History of Music's Academic Color
Ugh! Why pink? As surely as commencement rolls around every year, this exclamation is heard at universities and colleges throughout the country. From faculty and graduates alike comes the question: "Why was pink chosen as the academic color for...
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Dinosaurs of the New Millennium?" by William Velez; "Music Theory and Pedagogy before and after the Millennium" by John White; "Coming of Age: Reflections on Black Music Scholarship" by Josephine R. B. Wright; and "'A Closed Fist' from Spirals (for...
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The Other World Music: Percussion as Purveyor of Cultural Cues in Exotic Lounge Music
In the 1950s, a pianist named Martin Denny made a percussion-heavy recording of a tune called “Quiet Village.” This recording reached Number 4 on Billboard’s Hot 100 music chart and became the most popular song on Denny’s Exotica album (1957).1 The...
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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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Issues Regarding the Teaching of Non-Western Performance Traditions Within the College Music Curriculum1 While still in its early development, the move towards multi-cultural education in this country is already having considerable impact on music...
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“Experience is an Identity”: The Collegiate Marching Band and Expressions of Communal Identity
Abstract The communities formed in higher education institutions often view marching bands as an essential representation of communal identity. Marching bands are able to project this communal identity through musical and visual performance practices...
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[i]Good Music: What It Is & Who Gets to Decide,[/i] by John J. Sheinbaum
Good Music: What It Is & Who Gets to Decide. John J. Sheinbaum. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. 320 pp. 25 examples and 8 tables. ISBN: 9780226593388. $32.00. In recent years, music scholars and pedagogues have made efforts to shift...
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From Yankee Doodle thro' to Handel's Largo: Music at the World's Columbian Exposition
O what music there will be in Chicago From Yankee Doodle thro' to Handel's Largo. The orchestras will play And the brass bands too, they say, For that great Columbian Fair at Chicago. We'll hear such melodies with grandest chords and harmonies When the...
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Ives and Yale: The Enduring Influence of a College Experience
In April 1998, the Yale University Department of Music and School of Music held a conference to commemorate the centenary of Charles Ives's graduation from Yale in 1898. "Ives & Yale '98" featured talks and panels on Ives's music and on his experiences...
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Pygmalions of Pop: Reinterpreting Jazz and Rock Standards
Pygmalions of Pop: Reinterpreting Jazz and Rock Standards1 The pop musician's practice of reinterpreting a tune previously recorded by another artist is common to both jazz and rock. Jazz musicians traditionally look to the vast reserves of the Tin Pan...
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"A book of manners in the wilderness": The Model of University Music Education and its Relevance as Enabler in General Education in Ireland1 About four years ago, a student came to see me about his choice of instrument in anticipation of his practical...
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