Emergent Dissonance and the Resolution of a Paradox

01 October 1996 Our explanations of music over the centuries have not lacked for their perplexities, their mysteries and even contradictions. One of the most persistent anomalies of our history has managed to embody all three: the conceptual duplicity surrounding the...

A Brief History of Computer-Assisted Instruction in Music

01 October 1981 During recent years musicians have been making outstanding contributions to educational and creative computing. Computers are now being used for musical sound synthesis and composition, musical analysis, automated music printing, information storage...

Computer-Assisted Instruction in Music: Drill and Practice in Dictation

01 October 1974 The author gratefully acknowledges the help of Dr. Paul V. Lorton Jr., University of San Francisco; and Rosemary N. Killam, Teaching Assistant, Stanford University, in making and executing numerous programming suggestions. Historically, individualized...

A Survey of Recent Publications Relating to Nineteenth-Century Music and Musicians

01 October 1969 Anyone who has taught a course on romantic music deplores the scarcity of suitable texts. Not only is there no outstanding survey of the period, but with few exceptions we cannot even resort to completely reliable studies of particular genres or...

The Toscanini Memorial Archives at The New York Public Library

01 October 1977 It may seem perverse to begin a report like this with one negative, let alone two, but experience has shown that it is wise to correct from the start two common misapprehensions about the Toscanini Memorial Archives. First, the Toscanini Memorial...

The Psychology of Music and its Literature

01 October 1975 Musicians frequently are leery of reading anything which smacks of behavior because they feel that behavioral studies are too deep, too involved, and unrelated to music. Yet there are many behavioral research studies which can, if the results are...

Cage and Time: Temporality in Early and Late Works

01 October 2007 Introduction The structural importance of time in John Cage's music is well recognized. As Cage himself has stated, "What is the most important element of music? The element of time."1 This concern with time can be traced back to his early works from...

Appreciation Without Apologies

02 October 2006 Admit it: music appreciation is square. In the recent film comedy School of Rock, when a bumbling rocker somehow gets a job teaching at a stuffy prep school and begins teaching classes in "rock history and appreciation," what's funny is how the film...

Schenker and the Theoretical Tradition—The Concept of Musical Reduction

01 October 1978 I Analytic reduction, with its implicit recognition of music as a multi-leveled structure in which surface complexities conceal more basic underlying patterns, forms one of the cornerstones of Heinrich Schenker's theory of tonality. Schenker's work is...

The Entrepreneurship Curriculum for Music Students: Thoughts Towards a Consensus

03 October 2005 The increasing importance of professional development is one of the most dynamic trends emerging in the arts within higher education. Publicly funded institutions in particular are increasingly relying on entrepreneurship as a means to prepare students...

Redeeming Alma: The Songs of Alma Mahler

01 October 2004 Introduction History has not always been kind to Alma Mahler. Upon reading her obituary in December, 1964, the politically-incorrect songwriter Tom Lehrer penned these words about her relationship with Gustav Mahler: Their marriage, however, was...

The Origin of Armstrong's Hot Fives and Hot Sevens

01 October 2003 It has been almost fifty years since Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings of 1925-19281 were first recognized in print as a watershed of jazz history and the means by which the trumpeter emerged as the style's first transcendent figure.2...

Changing Lives with Recorded Sound: Recordings and Profound Musical Experiences

01 October 2002 Lecture delivered at the annual meeting of The College Music Society, November 17, 2001, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Introduction It is a great honor to be standing before you to deliver the annual Robert M. Trotter Lecture. It is also rather daunting,...

The State of Collegium in America

01 October 1976 Between September and December of 1974, as preliminary research for a forthcoming book on the Collegium, I explored the activities of early music ensembles and their directors on campuses of 30 American Colleges and Universities.1 Like most of my...

From Poem to Performance: Brahms's "Edward" Ballade, Op. 10, No. 1

01 October 2008 A performer may develop an interpretation of a piece of music using a number of tools, including analyzing the structure, working out physical motions, following intuitions, and listening to other performances. The process of translating printed notes...

A Creative Legacy: Messiaen as Teacher of Analysis

01 October 2000 Olivier Messiaen, along with Arnold Schoenberg, must be considered as one of the most important composer-teachers of the twentieth century. As with Schoenberg, several composers of note studied with Messiaen, some of whom attained international...

Ives and Yale: The Enduring Influence of a College Experience

01 October 1999 In April 1998, the Yale University Department of Music and School of Music held a conference to commemorate the centenary of Charles Ives's graduation from Yale in 1898. "Ives & Yale '98" featured talks and panels on Ives's music and on his experiences...

Historical Anthologies of Music—A Review and Critique

01 October 1970 Until recently teachers of music history in our colleges, universities, and conservatories often lacked adequate music scores for their lectures or study assignments. Those who stressed the social uses of music generally required few notated pieces....

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...

The Musical World of Hildegard of Bingen

01 October 1998 Hildegard's life (1098-1179) spans most of the twelfth century, one of the richest and most fascinating periods in cultural and intellectual history. Among the distinguished personages of this century are Dante Alighieri, Peter Abelard and his wife...