Peter Child
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Abstract In the field of ethnomusicology, the study of children’s music has long been overlooked which leads to a lack of understanding of the complex contexts of children’s musical worlds. Therefore it is imperative that we explore the historical and...
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Ives and Yale: The Enduring Influence of a College Experience
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...
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Motivational Leadership Theories Applied to Music Pedagogy
The twin issues of motivation and leadership strategy are among the most significant and relevant concerns in music pedagogy. Yet, the average music teacher has, at best, only a passing acquaintance with the body of research and data available in these...
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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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Structural Unities in a Work of Bartók: "Boating" from [i]Mikrokosmos[/i], Vol. 5
condensed, concentrated form, the way in which such an analysis might be effectively presented in the classroom. authors: Peter Child author_ids: 1190 authors: Peter Child author_ids: 1190
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Towards a History of Absolute Pitch Recognition
Absolute pitch recognition, more commonly known as "perfect pitch," has been a controversial subject for much of the past century.1 Is the faculty inborn or is it acquired? Is it a measure of musical talent? The recent literature is filled with...
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Jenny Lind and P. T. Barnum: A Success Story of Music, Business, and Philanthropy
Abstract Soprano Jenny Lind (1820–87), known as the “Swedish Nightingale,” toured the United States in 1850 under the auspices of “America’s Greatest Showman” and self-proclaimed “Prince of Humbug,” P. T. Barnum (1810–91). The tour was a phenomenal...
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Music as Life-Saving Project: Venezuela’s El Sistema in American Neo-Idealistic Imagination
Abstract The U.S. reception of El Sistema has been, for the most part, enthusiastic, as reflected in numerous media articles and the literature of prominent advocates such as Tricia Tunstall. An analysis of these sources points to a tendency on the...
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Abstract Music instruction in the college and the conservatory is dominated by the ancient master-apprentice model of instruction, which has problematic cultural and pedagogical ramifications. This essay first investigates apprenticeship from...
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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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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...
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Zoltán Kodály As Musician-Educator Exemplar: A Critique
I. BACKGROUND AND HISTORICAL CONSIDERATIONS Throughout the annals of recorded history relatively few composers of outstanding merit and magnitude have decidedly concerned themselves with the general musical education of the young—that is those masses...
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[i]Mozart: A Life[/i], by Maynard Solomon
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...
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Berg, Strindberg, and D Minor1 Berg's fusion of tonality and atonality is a notable feature of his musical language, and the key of D minor appears with surprising regularity. D minor can be found in various of his early unpublished piano sonatas, in...
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Changing Lives with Recorded Sound: Recordings and Profound Musical Experiences
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,...
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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...
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Evaluating Music Performance: Politics, Pitfalls, and Successful Practices
Background Evaluation is an integral component of music performance and instruction, an activity in which musicians engage at many levels, ranging from processes that are very informal and spontaneous to very formal processes that occur within highly...
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Teaching Embodied Musickmaking: Pedagogical Perspectives from South Asian Music and Dance
Embodied cognition posits that the mind and body function as a single entity and that all aspects of the mind are shaped by the body. Embodied pedagogy, influenced by embodied cognition, realizes the role of the body and its relationship to the mind...
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“Oh My Son!”: The Musical Origins and Function of King David’s Lamentation
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...
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Sometime in March 1939 Leonard Bernstein, then a Harvard University senior, wrote a letter to his former piano teacher and future secretarial assistant Helen Coates on Stillman Infirmary letterhead.2 After a day which found him prostrate as a "victime...
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