Multi-Linear Continuity and "Songs to the Dark Virgin" by Florence Price [1888-1953]

01 May 2023 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...

Toward Analytic Reconciliation of Outer Form, Harmonic Prolongation and Function

03 October 2005 Toward Analytic Reconciliation of Outer Form, Harmonic Prolongation and Function Written by Kevin J. Swinden Symposium Volume 45 Grieg's "The Song of Siri Dale" is a G minor setting in Grieg's op. 66 collection of Norwegian Folk Songs for solo piano....

The Future of the Arts in Higher Education: Finding a Path Forward (Thoughts of a Music Department Chair)

20 September 2018 for arts education must be characterized by creativity, team-work, communication, community, and collaboration. authors: Kevin Smith author_ids: 265241 authors: Kevin Smith author_ids: 265241

Union Musicians and the Medal of Honor During the American Civil War

08 July 2014 Abstract The sound of fifes, drums, and bugles are recognized as a commonplace yet significant part of the Civil War soundscape. Those who performed this music, however, have drawn less attention than the pieces they performed. This is unfortunate, as...

"So You Want to Write a Canon?" An Historically-Informed New Approach for the Modern Theory Class

01 October 2008 Introduction Canonic writing has been part of the education of music students for centuries. Considered a routine means of elaborating primary musical material in the Renaissance,2 it maintained an important place in the didactic writings of later...

Looking Through a Musical Lens: Music, Identity and Culture in Texas

27 August 2012 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...

Expanding Frames of Reference: Teaching the History of Electro-Acoustic Music

01 October 2006 Context Brian Mann once stated in these pages1 that competence in music appreciation is, among other things, a matter of continually expanding frames of reference. He stated, as an example, that one appreciates Beethoven's Eroica to a certain extent on...

General Editor’s Preface 58.2

20 September 2018 experiences, and learn from each other. Turning to the contents of Issue 58.2, we see a sampling of what is to come. Kevin Smith, in his sobering and timely Forum essay, laments the closing of his university music department, an act that has become all...