[i]Ethnomusicology Scholarship and Teaching[/i] - Neurodiversity and the Ethnomusicology of Autism

25 August 2014 Abstract In this article, I explore how musical experience and an emergent ethnomusicology of autism can provide both people with autism and their neurotypical counterparts with opportunities to collectively live, model, and promote an epistemology of...

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...

Repetition without Repetition: Bernsteinian Perspectives on Motor Learning for Musicians

01 October 2011 Probably few musicians today are familiar with the motor control theories of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936). But when musicians think about motor behavior, their thinking is often implicitly Pavlovian; as we shall see, the influence of those...

Paying Attention to Music and Baseball: Listening to the Savannah Bananas

13 May 2026 In 1956, Ford Frick, the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, tried to woo music fans to pay more attention to baseball. Writing in Music Journal, Frick hoped that his “comparison of music and baseball should be of interest to devotees of both of...

The Development, Implementation, and Supervision of Online Music Theory Courses

24 May 2016 Colleges and universities are under increasing pressure to develop online courses for a variety of classes that have traditionally been offered only through face-to-face (F2F) classroom instruction.1 The process of developing these online classes, as...

Music Appreciation Revisited: Responses to Mann and Kivy

31 August 2000 I read with great interest Brian Mann's recent essay on music appreciation: "A Response to Kivy: Music and `Music Appreciation' in the Undergraduate Liberal Arts Tradition (College Music Symposium, vol. 39, 1999). To my mind, Mann's recommendations for...

Extensions to the Pedagogical Canon: Expanding Perspectives on William Grant Still and the Teaching Applications as Realized in the [i]Seven Traceries[/i]

17 August 2015 Abstract William Grant Still’s Seven Traceries (1940) is a set of piano pieces that exhibits a number of post-tonal materials and techniques such as octatonicism, extended tertian sonorities, dense chromaticism, and extensive motivic development....

The Fragmentation of the Music Education Profession

01 October 1981 problems of the profession will not be those of survival techniques, but of healthy ideological differences. authors: Michael L. Mark author_ids: 1306 authors: Michael L. Mark author_ids: 1306

More Than A Drummer Boy's War: A Historical View of Musicians in the American Civil War

01 October 2002 Introduction Although making music and making war may seem incompatible, the two endeavors have been inextricably linked throughout recorded history. There is, perhaps, no better example of this powerful pairing than the American Civil War, often...

Death, Taxes, and the Right of Publicity: The Price of Fame in the Music Industry

29 October 2025 Abstract This article examines the complex treatment of the Right of Publicity (ROP), which is the legal interest in a person’s name, image, and likeness (NIL), in United States estate taxation. Drawing on recent disputes involving the estates of...

Playing to Learn: Pedagogical Games in Music Theory and Aural Skills

01 October 2024 Abstract Pedagogical games serve serious purposes: deepening student engagement, promoting mastery of course content, and increasing motivation through peer support and constructive competition. Although instructors in many disciplines use pedagogical...

The College Band Directors National Association and Aesthetic Education

31 May 2013 Abstract Founded in 1941, the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA) has been the primary professional organization for wind conductors for well over fifty years. Given the longstanding connection between college and university bands and...

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...

With Love from Z to A: Fibich’s Love Diary for Piano

28 October 2025 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...

Connecting Music to Ethics

30 November 2018 Many features of music contribute to its positive potential for promoting social harmony. But music’s influence on human interaction is not entirely benign. I consider features of music that enable it to serve such contrary projects, beginning by...

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...

Questioning as an Analytical Tool: Viewing the Score through the Eyes of the Composer

01 March 2022 Abstract Always the beautiful answer Who asks a more beautiful question.1Warren Berger, preface to A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas (New York: Bloomsbury, 2014). -E.E. Cummings The relationship between...

Composing a Sound: Giacinto Scelsi’s L’âme ailée / L’âme ouverte for violin solo

22 December 2017 As philosopher John Dewey has noted: "The moral function of art itself is to remove prejudice, do away with the scales that keep the eye from seeing, tear away the veils due to wont and custom, perfect the power to perceive. The critic's office is to...

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...

Shape/Interval Contours and Their Ordered Transformations: A Motivic Approach to Twentieth-Century Music Analysis and Aural Skills

03 October 2005 Scholars often approach the study of twentieth-century music by distributing it into a number of schools or isms. As a result, we have become accustomed to labeling twentieth-century music in terms of stylistic categories such as impressionism,...