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 Ethnomusicology of Music Learning and Teaching

01 October 2003 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...

Music and Advertising in Seventeen Magazine, 1944-1981

20 September 2019 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...

Paul Hindemith's Philosophy of Music and the Role of [i]The Four Temperaments[/i]

01 October 2011 Paul Hindemith formulated his philosophy of music upon two "basic and unalterable musical values," the one, Augustinian, the other, Boethian. He defined the latter as the "power of music, its ethos . . . brought into action upon our mind"; the former,...

Worthy of the Canon: Romantic Cello Sonatas by Women

15 November 2021 Abstract In 1882, Luise Adolpha Le Beau (1850–1927) won the first prize in an international competition in Hamburg, surprising the judges because of her gender. As a result, music journalists began publishing biographies of her across Germany, she...

The Curriculum Design Process in Music

01 October 1988 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...

Why Music Critics Disagree

01 October 1983 Critics disagree. It is not important nor perhaps even desirable that they cease doing so. Rather, it is important that they and their readers understand why they do so. Disagreements stemming from stupidity or ill-will on the part of one of the...

The National Assessment in Music: Assessed

01 October 1977 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...

[i]Tristan[/i] Quotations in Alban Berg’s Opera [i]Lulu[/i] and Berg’s Late Style

15 November 2021 Abstract It is well known that Alban Berg drew heavily from both the musical material and dramatic themes of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde (1857–59) in his opera Lulu (1929–35, completed by Friedrich Cerha in 1979). This article provides an overview of...

Video and Transcription: Candace Magner on the Life and Legacy of Barbara Strozzi (1619–1677)

20 September 2019 Candace Magner on the Life and Legacy of Barbara Strozzi (1619–1677). Candace Magner, scholar, Paul M. Patinka, interviewer, with student performances by sopranos Shirlyn Davenport, Jasmine Fernandez, Paige Henserling, Erin McAdams, Elise Miller, and...

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...

Waging the Peace: Bernard Herrmann and [i]The Day the Earth Stood Still[/i]

01 October 2009 The movie that gave us the phrase, “Klaatu! Barada! Nikto!” is not only an important science-fiction film, but also arguably one of the most significant films of the 1950s. Furthermore, it elevated the emerging genre of cinematic science-fiction above...

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...

Letter to the Editor

01 October 1997 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...

Robert Schumann and the "Real" Davidsbündler

01 October 1990 This article will examine five piano works from an epoch which has been called the high noon of German Romanticism. Four out of the five works are virtually forgotten today, submerged in the current of the present age. The composers represented, Felix...

The Politics of Definition in New Music

01 October 1989 We live in confusing times. In virtually every field of artistic endeavor, a plethora of stylistic/aesthetic "isms" abounds: almost daily, new media and art forms spring up, ranging from subsets and hybrids of performance to new technologies unimagined...

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...