Paul Thomas
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I Historical/stylistic periods in music are both useful and perplexing concepts; they simultaneously clarify and hinder one's perception of a given period and a given work. Part of the difficulty arises from a general lack of agreement as to what...
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The Ethnomusicology of Music Learning and Teaching
Ethnomusicology, for at least the last forty years, has been primarily an idiographic discipline. That is, ethnomusicologists' research has focused on the description of particular music systems and music cultures at the expense of either nomothetic...
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Dear Editor, In mentioning the direct line from Paul Hindemith to George Hunter to Tom Binkley, Mr. Buis omitted another important branch in his genealogy of Hindemith's influence on early music performance in America. Perhaps he is not aware that New...
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The National Assessment in Music: Assessed
During the last decade the Educational Commission of the States has sponsored an ongoing project entitled "The National Assessment of Educational Progress."1 Developed in collaboration with the National Center for Educational Statistics of the...
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The Teacher's Guide to Recent Recordings of Music by Black Composers
This discography is restricted to "concert" music by composers of African ancestry, regardless of the country of their birth. I acknowledge immediately that several of the figures listed are represented on recordings by works in other genres (e.g.,...
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Since its publication in the eighteenth century The Poems of Ossian has been shrouded in controversy, resulting in an overshadowing of its influence on music. Most who encounter literature that mentions The Poems of Ossian will be dissuaded from...
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Expanding Frames of Reference: Teaching the History of Electro-Acoustic Music
Context Brian Mann once stated in these pages1 that competence in music appreciation is, among other things, a matter of continually expanding frames of reference. He stated, as an example, that one appreciates Beethoven's Eroica to a certain extent on...
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There is a greater need than pianoforte teachers and singing teachers, and that is a numerous company of writers and talkers who shall teach the people how to listen to music so that it shall not pass through their heads like a vast tonal...
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“Experience is an Identity”: The Collegiate Marching Band and Expressions of Communal Identity
Abstract The communities formed in higher education institutions often view marching bands as an essential representation of communal identity. Marching bands are able to project this communal identity through musical and visual performance practices...
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Recent Works by Scholars of Baroque Music
Music of the Baroque, by David Schulenberg. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. 349 p. ISBN: 0-19-512232-1. Music of the Baroque: An Anthology of Scores, by David Schulenberg. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. 370 p....
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Studies of social and interactive processes in music improvisation constitute an important dimension of contemporary ethnomusicological research.1 The range of topics, issues, and traditions addressed is vast, yet one may identify across this...
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How the human mind structures its complex environment is a topic that has been explored for generations by individuals from a wide variety of disciplines. Musicians now seem to be generally aware that pattern perception is highly relevant to their...
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Music and Advertising in Seventeen Magazine, 1944-1981
Abstract Music had a prominent place in Seventeen from its first issue in September 1944, and music’s importance in the magazine reflects music’s importance in the lives of girls from the 1940s through the present day. Building on previous work by...
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Americans have been writing about the history of music, and about the history of American music, for almost a hundred years. As we approach the centenary we might well ask ourselves such questions as these: How have American music historians regarded...
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Accentuate the Negative? On Teaching Biographical Details in Jazz History
Abstract Jazz history professors and book authors may be prejudicing their students’ impressions of jazz by including negative biographical information about the major musicians. This author scrutinizes biographical presentations that are unnecessarily...
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Cultural Influences of Organ Music Composed by African American Women
Cultural Influences on Organ Music Written By African American Women 1 Abstract In this paper, major events in African American history are described and contrasted with the history of organ music written by African American women in the twentieth- and...
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Looking Through a Musical Lens: Music, Identity and Culture in Texas
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...
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A Stylistic Analysis of Selected Pop Songs, 1965-1984
Should the study of popular music be considered a part, perhaps even an integral part, of the public school music curriculum? In 1967, music educators, philosophers, industrialists, scientists, theologians, governmental representatives, and others...
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The Limits of Metaphorical Interpretation
"The culture wars" have raged furiously in the academy throughout the past decade, demanding our engagement at every scene of institutional power, from scholarly journals and curriculum committees to admissions offices and boards of trustees. After...
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Robert Schumann's Album for the Young and the Coming of Age of Nineteenth-Century Piano Pedagogy
In 1843, Robert Schumann noted that his highly original if slightly bizarre piano cycles of the 1830s had not endeared him to the public or to his publishers. He regretfully conceded that the financial responsibilities of supporting a wife and family...
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