Interpreting Chaos: The Paradigm of Chaotics and New Critical Theory

03 October 2005 Despite recent attempts at interdisciplinary study, the sciences and humanities are still marked by a significant emphasis on specialization. This situation often reinforces the traditional, and seemingly unbridgeable, gulf separating notions of...

Open-Access Music Journals and the Possibility of Global Dialogue[sup]1[/sup]

15 November 2021 Abstract Musicians increasingly operate in a global community connected by the internet that has affected performance, composition, and listening habits. Similarly, there is a growing trend of publishing scholarly research “open access,” meaning it is...

Performing Fourteenth-Century Music

01 October 1969 This paper was read originally at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society held in New Haven, Connecticut, December 27-29, 1968 as part of a ROUND TABLE discussion concerning "Rehearsal Techniques and Historical Performance Practice." The other...

Reconceiving Theory: The Analysis of Tone Color

01 October 1975 I. BACKGROUND It is hard to imagine a more interesting moment to be a music theorist. This is the result of a unique obligation and opportunity: the urgent need for a wide-ranging reconception of music theory. It results from convergence of four recent...

Scalar Control

01 October 1975 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...

Bridging Musical Worlds: An Assessment of Music Workshops Abroad

01 October 2002 Steven Cornelius, David Harnish, Mary Natvig, Jason Dooley, Melissa Jungers Introduction (Cornelius, Harnish) The traditional classroom setting offers any number of organizational benefits. By successfully managing that environment, teachers control...

Gender, Ideology, and Structure: Pedagogical Approaches to the Music of Karin Rehnqvist

01 October 2004 (BIS: CD 996). 7See a discussion in my chapter "New Music of Sweden," in New Music of the Nordic Countries, ed. by John White (Pendragon Press, 2002), 445-588. 8Sven Kristersson, "Nutida musik i folklig tradition: Karin Rehnqvist porträtteras i en...

In Defense of Context in Jazz History: A Response to Mark Gridley

01 October 2008 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...

Reviews of Books on Jazz

01 October 2003 The Cambridge Companion to Jazz. Edited by Mervyn Cooke and David Horn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 403 p. ISBN 0-521-66320-2 (cloth); ISBN 0-521-66388-1 (paper). Jazz and the Germans: Essays on the Influence of "Hot" American Idioms...

What Would Beethoven Google? Primary Sources in the Twenty-First Century Classroom

11 April 2016 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...

From National Election to National Conference

24 April 2025 Leading up to the CMS National Conference held the same week as the national election of 2024, I, like many other attendees at the three-day event, became nervous about being in Washington, D.C. after an election season during which one candidate was...

Performance Practices and Rehearsal Techniques

01 October 1969 This paper was read originally at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society held in New Haven, Connecticut, December 27-29, 1968 as part of a ROUND TABLE discussion concerning "Rehearsal Techniques and Historical Performance Practice." The other...

Aesthetics, Ideology and Musical Value

01 October 1985 Do American musicologists and critics make ideology-free judgments? To what extent is such a thing possible or desirable? It is evident that art and music which clearly demonstrate social or political intent may be evaluated to advantage in those...

[i]"A Tidal Wave of Encouragement": American Composers' Concerts in the Gilded Age[/i], by E. Douglas Bomberger

01 October 2004 "A Tidal Wave of Encouragement": American Composers' Concerts in the Gilded Age, by E. Douglas Bomberger. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002. xvii+235 p. ISBN 0-275-97446-4. A study of American music of the nineteenth century brings an array of topics under...

Exploring Alternative Repertoires: Film-Music Pedagogy

11 March 2011 Limiting the repertoire of our music courses to compositions that date from 1750 to 1950 helps students become familiar with important works of the Western tradition. Yet,a closer look at this pedagogical strategy reveals fundamental problems that...

Understanding the Music of the Civil War: Performing Ensembles and Multimedia Arts Integration Projects

18 December 2013 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...

Teaching Embodied Musickmaking: Pedagogical Perspectives from South Asian Music and Dance

13 May 2016 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...

An Analysis of Triadic Post-tonality in Sky Macklay’s [i]Many Many Cadences[/i] for String Quartet

10 January 2018 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),...

Teaching Children to Read Music

01 October 1966 This article was part of a Symposium entitled Trends in Music Teaching. This discussion intends to convey to our readers current ideas on the newer trends in the teaching of music. Three of the articlesthis article, along with Music Education is Coming...

Rehearsals in the Renaissance and Baroque

01 October 1969 This paper was read originally at the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society held in New Haven, Connecticut, December 27-29, 1968 as part of a ROUND TABLE discussion concerning "Rehearsal Techniques and Historical Performance Practice." The other...