Diabolical Dances and Rhythmic Poetry: Interpreting and Performing Franz Liszt’s Metric Conflicts

28 October 2025 Editor, Scholarship and Research James A. Grymes Expand Article The technical and musical difficulties of Franz Liszt’s piano music are well known to pianists and non-pianists alike. Such difficulties have been discussed in diverse venues from...

Folk Music and the "Free and Equal Treatment of the Twelve Tones": Aspects of Béla Bartók's Synthetic Methods

01 October 1987 the Fifth String Quartet," 415. 79Perle, "Symmetrical Formations," 303. 80Perle, "Symmetrical Formations," 305. authors: Mark Nelson author_ids: 1217 authors: Mark Nelson author_ids: 1217

Music Teacher Education As Victory Garden

01 October 2009 Music teacher education programs reflect three different academic traditions: the conservatory, the normal school, and the liberal arts college or university. Gradually emerging over a 150-year span, four-year programs of preparation required for...

Creativity in the College Music Classroom: Guidelines for Effective Integration

12 September 2016 Abstract We have many reasons to focus on developing student creativity in the course of music study, including demonstrating relevance to a culture that values creativity, promoting student self-actualization and adaptability, increasing engagement in...

Defending Music Theory in a Multicultural Curriculum

02 October 2006 Defending Music Theory in a Multicultural Curriculum1 Music theory has served as the foundation for undergraduate music curricula in the United States for much of the past century. Within many music departments, it has been used to introduce students...

The Flying Horse Big Band, [i]The Bat Swings![/i]

20 September 2018 The Bat Swings! 2018. The Flying Horse Big Band, Jeff Rupert, director. Big band performances of 1960s “superhero” songs with new arrangements by Michael Philip Mossman, Harry Allen, Mark Taylor, and others. 13 tracks, 45:11 minutes, with 16-page...

Musicians as Authors: Teaching the Art of Writing Program Notes

01 October 2004 Ensemble directors devote enormous attention to programming concerts.1 When selecting pieces and deciding on program order, consideration is given to musical and textual themes, cultural and historical origins, tempos, keys, forms, durations, and many...

The Ethics and Legality of Beta Blockers for Performance Anxiety: What Every Educator Should Know

01 October 2011 Educators are required to make many pedagogical decisions, and fortunately, most are quite simple and do not necessitate major ethical considerations. Some decisions might come easily—for instance whether to copy music for a page turn or view a video...

Feminist Scholarship and the Field of Musicology: I

01 October 1989 Feminist Scholarship and the Field of Musicology: I1 In a study entitled Feminist Scholarship: Kindling in the Groves of Academe, five authors surveyed recent scholarship in the fields of anthropology, education, history, literature, and philosophy in...

Crossing Over with Integrity

04 November 2013 “And when his hand he had stretch’d forth To mine, with pleasant looks, whence I was cheer’d, Into that secret place he led me on.”1 Venturing across disciplines in musical practice and pedagogy is often seen as a path fraught with peril, yet the...

Music and World Events Since 1945: A Graduate Seminar

17 March 2015 Introduction The course, Music and World Events Since 1945, is a graduate multidisciplinary seminar centering on works by major composers in direct response to world events such as war, disease, protest, human rights movements, and environmental...