Paul Hindemith's Philosophy of Music and the Role of [i]The Four Temperaments[/i]

01 October 2011 Paul Hindemith formulated his philosophy of music upon two "basic and unalterable musical values," the one, Augustinian, the other, Boethian. He defined the latter as the "power of music, its ethos . . . brought into action upon our mind"; the former,...

Not Without a Grievance: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the Suffrage Movement, and the Reception of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

01 October 2024 Abstract In an 1882 article in the American suffrage newspaper, The Woman’s Journal, Thomas Wentworth Higginson expressed outrage that the Mendelssohn family had discouraged Fanny Hensel from composing and that her music had been published under Felix...

From Yankee Doodle thro' to Handel's Largo: Music at the World's Columbian Exposition

01 October 1984 O what music there will be in Chicago From Yankee Doodle thro' to Handel's Largo. The orchestras will play And the brass bands too, they say, For that great Columbian Fair at Chicago. We'll hear such melodies with grandest chords and harmonies When the...

Reading Schumann By Way of Jean Paul and His Contemporaries

01 October 1990 Reading Schumann By Way of Jean Paul and His Contemporaries1 "Of pieces for a mosaic I have indeed enough, and to spare." Jean Paul Richter, from "The Life of Maria Wuz, the Merry-Hearted Dominie of Auenthal" I Commenting on the reception of his Op. 2...

Early Music and Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) in the United States: A Centenary Evaluation

01 October 1996 In Memoriam Luther Noss (1907-1995) and Thomas Binkley (1931-1995) who generously supported this project with their guidance. Paul Hindemith—composer, teacher, and performer of early music—was an inaugurator of the early music revival in the United...

Paul Hindemith as Director of the Yale Collegium Musicum

01 October 1978 During the spring of 1946 posters announcing a concert of 14th and 15th century music for Monday, the 20th of May, appeared at various places on the Yale campus. The program was to be given in Sprague Memorial Hall by the "Students of Advanced Theory"...

Remixing Western Music History

01 May 2023 Abstract The problem faced by music historians of how (or whether) to impart reverence for music created through the institutions of imperialism, patriarchy, colonialism, and slavery is not a new one; nevertheless, as decolonizing initiatives take hold...

[i]Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition, and Performance[/i], by Charles Dodge and Thomas Jerse; [i]Foundations of Computer Music[/i], edited by Curtis Roads and John Strawn

01 October 1987 Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition, and Performance, by Charles Dodge and Thomas Jerse. New York: Schirmer Books, 1985. 381 pp. Foundations of Computer Music, edited by Curtis Roads and John Strawn. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985. 712 pp. The...

A Survey of Music Anthologies

01 October 1979 The purpose of this article is to provide the reader with a survey of anthologies of music published since 1965. Prior to this date, the classroom teacher had access to only a few compilations of music. These included, for example, Albert Wier's...

Transcribing French Baroque Guitar for Classical Guitar: Semi Re-Entrant Tuning in Robert de Visée’s Suite in D Minor (1686)

28 October 2025 I thank Taylor DiClemente, Lex Eisenhardt, Ellwood Colahan, Stephan Etcharry, Emad Vashahi, Amir Houshangi and Theodora Psychoyou whose insights were foundational to this study. I am deeply grateful to my anonymous reviewers, whose thoughtful feedback...

Turning Tables: Engineering the Vinyl Revival

20 September 2018 Abstract With all forms of media in the world seemingly destined to become digital, a growing segment of the music industry is pushing to ensure analog is not forgotten through a recent revival of vinyl records. As compact disc sales continue to...

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...

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...

“Oh My Son!”: The Musical Origins and Function of King David’s Lamentation

01 October 2009 Introduction In his 1981 article “Prince Henry as Absalom in David’s Lamentations” Irving Godt examined a group of seventeenth-century English settings based on King David’s laments for his son Absalom and his friend Jonathan.1 On the basis of the...

Reflections on Reflections of Serialism: Using Metaphors of Language, Visual Arts, and Nature as Pathways to Appreciation

03 June 2016 Abstract While serial music is a mainstay of college instruction in both music theory and music history courses, many people still struggle to find a human connection to the compositional practice. This article explores metaphorical connections between...

Improvisation in the Aural Curriculum: An Imperative

01 October 1997 Improvisation has long been a part of the music curriculum, at least in certain areas of study. It is a staple of jazz studies where students learn the skill through ensembles and specific courses. Organists are taught improvisation as a means of...

New Titles in Music Technology: Textbooks, Software Guides, and Historical and Critical Works

31 August 2005 Textbooks: Experiencing Music Technology, by David Brian Williams and Peter Richard Webster. 3rd ed. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Schirmer, 2006. xxix + 467 p. ISBN 0-534-17672-0. Essentials of Music Technology, by Mark Ballora. Upper Saddle River, NJ:...

A Simple Tool for Species Counterpoint Drill and Practice with Artinfuser Exercise

15 November 2021 species to complex polyphonic textures. Figure 1. Example of Artinfuser counterpoint exercise in two voices authors: Paul Thomas author_ids: 271878 authors: Paul Thomas author_ids: 271878

The Crystallization of the New, New Music at UCSD

01 October 2011 1. Ever-New California In 1966 work began on widening the road leading from a sleepy San Diego beach community, La Jolla Shores, up to the area where an infant university, the University of California San Diego (UCSD), was quickly developing. The road...

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...