Introducing Musical Meaning through Popular Music

20 September 2018 Abstract When analyzing challenging texted art music, all too often the act of labeling a concept (for example, “common-tone modulation”) can mislead students into thinking that the label is the end of the story. Several factors, such as difficulty in...

The Pedagogy of Early, Twentieth-Century Music: Ideas for a Classroom Discussion based on a Multi-Faceted Analysis of Scriabin's Op. 31, No. 4.

29 November 2016 Abstract The literature of the early part of the twentieth-century poses a unique set of pedagogical challenges when introducing it to the undergraduate population. On the one hand, there are elements that continue in the common-practice tradition,...

Reimagining Career Clarity in Music Professions, Defining Success in Boundaryless Music Performance Careers

20 September 2018 Abstract Conceptualizations of both career and success are socially constructed and involve people’s subjective interpretations of success based on their lived experiences and the experiences of those around them. Over recent decades, traditional...

The Esthetics of Film Music

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A Taxonomy of Sentence Structures

07 August 2014 Abstract In his 1967 Fundamentals of Musical Composition, Arnold Schonberg described the sentence as a basic tool for organizing themes. Over the past thirty years, a growing number of scholars have been reexamining Schoenberg's concept of the sentence...

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...

The Rich Messiness of Music: Teaching Theory in Music with Contradiction and Paradox

01 October 1990 Not long ago I visited my local automobile dealer. Attracted by the low sticker price, I explained to the salesman I had no inclination to purchase any of the long list of extras affixed to the side window. "But you will have to pay $169 for the rear...

Game Programming Environments for Musical Interactions

07 February 2014 ABSTRACT Game development programming environments make use of many of the same sound generation technologies that music technology applications use. There are mechanics for playing, organizing, listening, recording, and manipulating sounds, all of...

Reading Schumann By Way of Jean Paul and His Contemporaries

01 October 1990 Reading Schumann By Way of Jean Paul and His Contemporaries1 "Of pieces for a mosaic I have indeed enough, and to spare." Jean Paul Richter, from "The Life of Maria Wuz, the Merry-Hearted Dominie of Auenthal" I Commenting on the reception of his Op. 2...

Sixteenth-Century Conception of Harmony

01 October 1979 Modern musicians generally employ the term harmony in reference to the structure, function, and interrelationships of simultaneously combined musical tones. Thus narrowly defined, the term serves as part of a highly specialized, technical vocabulary...

Debussy's Earliest Songs

01 October 1984 If we celebrated 1962 as the centenary of Debussy's birth, then we might also remark that 1982 was another centenary, that of the first performance of his music.* On May 12, 1882, Debussy premiered the mélodies "Les Roses" and "Fête galante" with his...

How the Flexibility of the Twelve-Bar Blues Has Helped Shape the Jazz Language

03 October 2005 Introduction It would be difficult to overstate the impact the blues had on American music in the twentieth century. In his 1993 book, The Land Where the Blues Began, Alan Lomax states, Although this has been called the age of anxiety, it might better...