American Music in Music Courses

01 October 1985 Virtually everyone in my family is a musician, professional or amateur, and I was brought up with many American works in our daily music-making. No point was made of it particularly; it was simply assumed that American music was an equal, valuable, and...

The Ethics and Legality of Beta Blockers for Performance Anxiety: What Every Educator Should Know

01 October 2011 Educators are required to make many pedagogical decisions, and fortunately, most are quite simple and do not necessitate major ethical considerations. Some decisions might come easily—for instance whether to copy music for a page turn or view a video...

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...

And Now We Begin—A Survey of Recent Theory Texts

01 October 1973 The 1960s were a time for reexamination of the aims, contents and methods of college courses designed to teach music theory, and, as a corollary, of the texts intended for those courses. Several factors contributed to the creation of a "crisis in the...

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...

The Indian Music Debate and "American" Music in the Progressive Era

01 October 1997 A little over a hundred years ago, composers and music critics in the United States launched a debate about the viability of an idiomatically American music and whether its roots could be found in folk music. One of the roots under discussion was music...

Overview to Music, Business, and Peace

30 November 2018 The articles in this special issue are specifically devoted to the relationship between music, business, and peace. This conversation has been the aim of two Music, Business, and Peace (MBP) conferences at Indiana University led by university scholars...

Mozart’s Violin Concerto in D Major, K. 271a/271i: A “Dubious” Work that is Nevertheless Worthy of Study

15 May 2024 Abstract Mozart Violin Concerto in D Major, K. 271a/271i, also known as Kolb Concerto, is less popular than other Mozart concertos due to its unsettled authenticity, and yet is a piece worth learning. In this concerto Mozart, if he wrote it, seemed to...

Concept-Based Pedagogy and its Application in the Private Clarinet Studio

01 April 2019 Abstract Educators are no longer the keepers of content. With the increase in accessibility to technology and the internet, teachers need to show students how to think critically and use facts to influence their own independence and creativity in the...

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...

[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...

The Woman in the Music (On Feminism as Theory and Practice)

01 October 2000 The Woman in the Music 1 (On Feminism as Theory and Practice) At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars! The outside pattern, I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can...

Music in Schools

01 October 1964 The following article is based upon a speech that Dr. Buechner delivered before The Massachusetts Music Educators Association in Springfield on March 22, 1963. He has taken this opportunity to add a paragraph or two for the sake of clarity and has...

The RILM Project: Charting the Seas of Modern Musicological Literature

01 October 2000 Every year, lately around August or September, music libraries around the world receive a very large blue book: the latest annual volume of RILM Abstracts of Music Literature. Every year we know it will be heavier to lift, perhaps a few millimeters...

[i]Mozart: A Life[/i], by Maynard Solomon

01 October 1995 Mozart: A Life, by Maynard Solomon. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995. xvi + 640 pp. ISBN 0-06-019046-9. About two-thirds of the way through his massive, richly detailed new Mozart biography, Maynard Solomon quotes from a Danish tenor's...

The Global DJ Project and the Blank Canvas: World Music, Memory and Meaning

20 May 2013 Abstract1 “The blank canvas” is a hypothetical psychoacoustic adaptation strategy which enables latter day American listeners to survive and even thrive within an environment of extreme musical diversity. This diversity is as much historical as it is...

Music Improvisation in Higher Education

11 November 2013 Abstract While music educators and administrators have increasingly voiced support for improvisation as an integral component of music education in recent decades, research reveals a continuing discrepancy between this viewpoint and evidence of...

Demographics of Instructors of Selected First-Year Undergraduate Music Courses

01 October 2024 Abstract Using data from university websites and other online sources, this study gathers the gender identity, rank, and terminal degree status of teachers of selected courses for first-year undergraduate music majors – specifically, group piano, music...

Empathy: A Global Imperative for Peace

30 November 2018 Abstract This essay maintains that interplays between empathy, goodwill and other-regarding behaviors can make a huge difference in arguing one type of community into existence (one based on inclusivity, peace, respect, and universal human values) as...

Heritage Band of the Midwest Digital Audio Archives: 40-Plus Years of Volunteer Dedication to International Wind Band Music

28 April 2017 VISIT THE AUDIO ARCHIVE Abstract The Heritage Band of the Midwest (HBM), also know as the “Bunny Band,” is an all-volunteer ensemble of musicians that gather once a year during Easter week for three days to record an album of lesser-known wind band...