Paul Thomas
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Oral History in Music: A Practical Guide
In a recent article for this journal Barry S. Brook discussed the function of oral history in musical research, its special advantages to historians, and the distinctions between oral and written documents.1 Oral history, he noted, provides "the...
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Musical Performance and Scholarship in Higher Education
In higher education today there exists an apparent dilemma involving the role and function of the performing musician as a member of the university community. The purpose of this article is to present and explicate the problem and to suggest a way to...
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Technology, Culture, and Music
Salsa is now a bigger seller than catsup in the United States. The imminent passing of the third millennium is seen by many as a symbol of renewal. This idea has special relevance for Western music which, in some very important respects, is...
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Cultivating Music in America: Women Patrons and Activists since 1860, edited by Ralph P. Locke and Cyrilla Barr. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xi + 357 pp. ISBN 0-520-08395-4. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge: American Patron of Music, by...
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Beginning especially during the last two decades of the twentieth century, a new vision and movement for liberal learning in higher education—that of the “engaged” institution dedicated to “engaged” learning and to the public good—emerged in the United...
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Edward T. Cone's [i]The Composer's Voice[/i]: Agency in Instrumental Music and Song
In Musical Form and Musical Performance, Edward T. Cone states that "artistic quality is intentionally produced esthetic quality"; the so-called intentional fallacy is "no fallacyunless it is the fallacy of believing that there is an intentional...
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Abstract Arts integration provides musical ensembles a unique and creative way to meet learning objectives in music and other content areas while developing skills of the “Framework of 21st Century Learning.” This article describes the process...
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The Curriculum Design Process in Music
In this essay I shall suggest an approach to curriculum design in music which, while taking account of important external factors, establishes the teacher's experience as a central element in the process and implies that the teacher's task is a...
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The Promotion and Tenure Process in CMS Members’ Music Units
Abstract To increase understanding of the promotion and tenure process for music professors, the CMS Academic Citizenship Committee studied four aspects of the topic: the promotion and tenure process; expectations for excellence in teaching,...
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Abstract Any company that expects to survive in the 21st century – especially in the music industry – will need to adapt to the ever-changing business landscape. Few companies have exhibited the survival instincts that iHeart Media has over their...
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Abstract Exemplifying his approach to musical nationalism, the Misa folclórica paraguaya (“Paraguayan Folkloric Mass”) of Florentín Giménez (1925–2021) combines elements of the Roman Catholic Mass with folkloric music idioms. Composed in 1990, this...
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Art Music Activism: Aesthetics and Politics in 1930s New York City. Maria Cristina Fava. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2024. 232 pp. 4 b&w photographs and 17 musical examples. ISBN: 9780252056574. $19.95. (Ebook) In Art Music Activism:...
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The "Indian" Operas of Charles Wakefield Cadman
Charles Wakefield Cadman is best known today for his popular-style ballads which achieved a remarkable commercial success in the early decades of the twentieth century. What is less well known is that Cadman considered his primary talent to be in the...
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Preliminaries In the 1990s, college music is undergoing radical curriculum reform in response to various calls to diversify subject matter and repertoire. Traditional programs of study are being challenged, and classical canons of repertoire broken...