Jocelyne Binet’s [i]Cycle de Mélodies: [/i]Unearthing a Forgotten Song Cycle, Lecture-Recital by Matthew Hoch

20 September 2018 “Jocelyne Binet’s Cycle de Mélodies: Unearthing a Forgotten Song Cycle” is a research presentation and performance by Dr. Matthew Hoch, Associate Professor of Voice at Auburn University in Alabama. The presentation is available in the form of a...

Composers' Revisions and the Creative Process

01 October 1993 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988), 23. 13For a more extensive discussion of these ideas, see Matthew Brown and Douglas J. Dempster, "The Scientific Image of Music Theory," Journal of Music Theory 33 (1989): 65-106 and Matthew Brown,...

A Taxonomy of Sentence Structures

07 August 2014 Abstract In his 1967 Fundamentals of Musical Composition, Arnold Schonberg described the sentence as a basic tool for organizing themes. Over the past thirty years, a growing number of scholars have been reexamining Schoenberg's concept of the sentence...

The Suzuki Violin School: Past, Present, and Possible Future

15 May 2024 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...

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...

Review Essay of Books on Choral Music

31 August 2006 Prescriptions for Choral Excellence: Tone, Text, Dynamic Leadership, by Shirlee Emmons and Constance Chase. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 334 p. ISBN 0-19-518242-1. Hearing Bach's Passions, by Daniel R. Melamed. Oxford and New...

Musculoskeletal Pain/Discomfort in Collegiate Conductors: Incidence of Injury and Use of Personal and Instructional Prevention Strategies

11 April 2025 Abstract Musculoskeletal health in conductors is an underexplored topic within occupational studies of musicians and the pedagogical literature in conducting. The current mixed methods survey study investigated (1) the prevalence and severity of...

From Incubation to Delivery: An Application of Project Management for the Music Industry

20 September 2020 Abstract Completing a music-related project is a complex endeavor that often encompasses many interdependent tasks within a team setting. One may subsequently ask how can such creative teams not only account for all the constraints linked with their...

The Problem with Beautiful Singing

01 October 2007 To begin with, if we are going to have singing at all, we must have the most beautiful possible singing, and it is not more natural to sing badly than to sing well. Jean François La Harpe, Journal de Politique et de la Littérature October 5, 1777...

Building a Conceptual Model of Independent Studio Production in Undergraduate Music Technology Courses Through Authentic Assessment

01 October 2024 Abstract In this article, the authors put forward a Conceptual Model of Independent Studio Production (ISP) in undergraduate music technology courses. Independent Studio Production reflects the increasingly multifaceted nature of the recording...

A Multi-Level Approach to More Secure Memorization

01 October 2009 Transformation types are few in number and usually not difficult to recognize. In his book Explaining Tonality, Matthew Brown categorizes Schenker’s voice leading transformations into four groups.3 I will draw from two of these. The first group he calls...

Building Bridges: Same and Different Issues Across Music Theory, Music History, and Music Education

01 October 2009 Introduction—Betty Anne Younker The examination of pedagogy requires an investigation into principles of learning. One obvious starting point would be to explore the literature of educational psychology and the psychology of music teaching and...

The Toscanini Memorial Archives at The New York Public Library

01 October 1977 It may seem perverse to begin a report like this with one negative, let alone two, but experience has shown that it is wise to correct from the start two common misapprehensions about the Toscanini Memorial Archives. First, the Toscanini Memorial...

Music, Myth and Man: A New Concept of Teaching Music Appreciation

01 October 1979 In the struggle to give the wishes of my heart artistic shape, . . . my studies thus bore me, through the legends of the Middle Ages, right down to their foundation in the old Germanic myths. . . . What here I saw was no longer the Figure of...

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...

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....

Preface to a Graduate Course in the History of Music Theory

01 October 1982 As a doctoral degree certifies (among other things) to a breadth of knowledge in the field, one requirement for the Ph.D. in music theory should be a scholarly course surveying the history of theory. To decide on this requirement, however, is easier...

General Editor’s Preface 58.2

20 September 2018 Sept. 2018 Issue 58.2 is a special one in the history of the College Music Symposium: Journal of the College Music Society. Seven years have passed since 2011 when the Symposium was first released in an online format, and during that time there were...