On Miles and the Modes

01 October 1998 Speaking with conviction about the musical substance of times long past is not easy. Speculating about how that music may have been experienced by its contemporaries is even more difficult, and thus musicology's most astute figures have warned...

A Different View: "On Miles and the Modes"

01 October 1999 As one of the scholars cited on the first page of William Thomson's article,1 I am writing to point out several inaccuracies contained therein, and to offer an alternative interpretation of the author's principal point, in which he suggests...

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...

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...

iReal Pro: A revolution in jazz education practice tools

08 November 2023 it by ear from a recording. References Practice made perfect. iReal Pro. (n.d.). https://www.irealpro.com/ authors: Miles Brown author_ids: 271966 authors: Miles Brown author_ids: 271966

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...

Explaining Improvisation to Non-Musicians by Categorizing the Jazz Musician’s Creative Alternatives

15 November 2021 Teaching jazz history and appreciation to non-musicians is often a challenge when the students are baffled by the realization that jazz musicians make up their music as it is performed. This amount of creative freedom astounds students, often to the...

Letter to the Editor from Gridley, Mark

01 October 2011 Dear Editor of College Music Symposium: Thank you for giving me the opportunity to reply to Brian Harker's article: "In Defense of Context in Jazz History: A Response to Mark Gridley" (CMS 48, pp. 157-159), which referred to my article in the previous...

Analyzing Improvised Jazz

01 October 1992 Now that jazz is achieving respectability in educational circles and analysts are applying their diverse techniques to improvised solos, it is appropriate to review what is being done in jazz analysis and to suggest a direction for the future. The...

Music and the Public Good: Can Higher Education Fulfill the Challenges and Opportunities (Privileges and Responsibilities) of the 21st Century?

01 October 2010 From its beginnings in the seventeenth century, American higher education has had a somewhat uneasy and self-conscious relationship with the world beyond the academy. Through the years, critics have sometimes invoked terms such as "real world" and...

The Institute of Ethnomusicology at U.C.L.A.

31 December 1961 To the superimposed muffled sounds of the "Revolutionary Etude," the Paganini Twenty-fourth Caprice, the mi-mi-mi-mis and ah-ah-ah-has, and the Lazarus exercises which emerge from the interiors of the usual campus music department, an additional...

Misconceptions in Linking Free Jazz with the Civil Rights Movement

01 October 2007 This article deals with two misunderstandings that intertwine to confuse students, teachers, and commentators of jazz history if they study American history at the same time that they study the music itself. The first misunderstanding is that during...

The Duke Ellington Renaissance: A Review of Recent Books, Recordings, and Music Editions

01 October 2000 Book title: Duke Ellington: A Listener's Guide Book author: Eddie Lambert ISBN: 0-8108-3161-9 TISBN: 0810831619 Book title: Duke Ellington: A Spiritual Biography Book author: Janna Tull Steed ISBN: 0-8245-2351-2 TISBN: 0824523512 Book title: Duke's...

Pygmalions of Pop: Reinterpreting Jazz and Rock Standards

01 October 1989 Pygmalions of Pop: Reinterpreting Jazz and Rock Standards1 The pop musician's practice of reinterpreting a tune previously recorded by another artist is common to both jazz and rock. Jazz musicians traditionally look to the vast reserves of the Tin Pan...

[i]Good Music: What It Is & Who Gets to Decide,[/i] by John J. Sheinbaum

15 November 2022 Good Music: What It Is & Who Gets to Decide. John J. Sheinbaum. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. 320 pp. 25 examples and 8 tables. ISBN: 9780226593388. $32.00. In recent years, music scholars and pedagogues have made efforts to shift...