[i]The American Musical Landscape[/i], by Richard Crawford

01 October 1993 The American Musical Landscape, by Richard Crawford. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. xi + 381 pp. ISBN 0-520-07764-4. Richard Crawford's status as one of American musicology's finest scholars was recognized in 1985 by the University of...

Summertime: George Gershwin’s Life in Music, by Richard Crawford

20 September 2020 Summertime: George Gershwin’s Life in Music. Richard Crawford. New York: W. W. Norton, 2019. 594 pp. 17 b&w images. ISBN: 9780393052152. $39.95. Isaac Goldberg published his George Gershwin biography in 1931, only seven years after the premiere of...

“Shot Into the Air Like a Rocket”: Climax in the Lieder of Alma Mahler

01 May 2023 Abstract The appropriation of musical climax as an act of subversion became a common claim in feminist analysis of music by women composers. The focus on the tension and release in Western classical music has been called out as overtly masculine and...

Amerigrove's Pedigree: On [i]The New Grove Dictionary of American Music[/i]

01 October 1987 1907 to 1911, while Sonneck was secretary. He then served as president until the group disbanded in 1916. See also Richard Crawford, The American Musicological Society 1934-1984 (Philadelphia: American Musicological Society, 1984), 3-4. 17Waldo Selden...

A Theory of Pitch-Class-Set Extension in Atonal Music

01 October 2001 Over years of teaching pitch-class-set theory and analysis as part of undergraduate twentieth-century theory courses, I have often reflected (and heard perceptive students remark) on an apparent shortcoming of the system. At that stage of their...

The Symbiosis of Teaching and Research: A Forum

01 October 2004 point of insisting that his students strive for effective communication in writing up their research results. As Richard Crawford, another ex-student of Hans David (and of mine), has put it: "First, David advised, a writer on music must be a good...

The Center for Black Music Research Forum

01 October 1989 raised by three scholars in statements published in Black Music Research Bulletin and CBMR Register. Statements by Richard Crawford (University of Michigan), Martin Williams (Smithsonian Institution Press), and Robert Glidden (Florida State University)...

Smithsonian Folkways Reissues of Classic Folkways Children's Music Recordings

01 October 2001 Seasons for Singing, by Ella Jenkins. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings CD 45031, 2000. Songs, Rhythms & Chants for the Dance, by Ella Jenkins. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings CD 45004, 2000. ALERTA Sings & Canciones para el Recreo/Songs for the...

More Than A Drummer Boy's War: A Historical View of Musicians in the American Civil War

01 October 2002 Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1988); Daniel Kingman, American Music: A Panorama, 2nd ed. (New York: Schirmer, 1990); Richard Crawford, The American Musical Landscape (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993); Richard Crawford, America's Musical...

The Indian Music Debate and "American" Music in the Progressive Era

01 October 1997 193. See also "Nationalism in Music" in the same work, 180-87. 25The most recent study of MacDowell's suite is by Richard Crawford in "Edward MacDowell: Musical Nationalism and An American Tone Poet," Journal of the American Musicological Society 49...

Artistic Parallels between Arnold Schoenberg's Music and Painting (1908-1912)

01 October 1995 I would like to express my appreciation to several people who helped in the preparation of this study: R. Wayne Shoaf, Archivist at the Arnold Schoenberg Institute, gave generous assistance at several stages; Nuria Schoenberg-Nono supplied valuable...

Feminist Scholarship and the Field of Musicology: I

01 October 1989 Feminist Scholarship and the Field of Musicology: I1 In a study entitled Feminist Scholarship: Kindling in the Groves of Academe, five authors surveyed recent scholarship in the fields of anthropology, education, history, literature, and philosophy in...

Intersects in the Musicological Juncture: On the Relationship Between History, Theory, and Criticism

01 October 1983 a prime historical document has been sparse to nonexistent. There has been some movement within the last generation. Richard Crawford has argued for the value of musical documents in interpreting early American history,38 and Seeger provided a model in...

Changing the Stories We Tell: Repertoires, Narratives, Materials, Goals, and Strategies in Teaching Music History

01 October 2009 As The College Music Society reaches its fiftieth anniversary, it is fitting that we look back on developments in college music teaching over its first fifty years. In the teaching of music history, I see five major areas of change during that time:...

Oral History in Music: A Practical Guide

01 October 1980 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...

A Brief History of Composers' Groups in the United States

01 October 1980 of directors, and is planning on issuing some records of works by women composers in the near future. 1David McKay and Richard Crawford, William Billings of Boston. Princeton University Press, 1975. 2Irving Lowens, Music and Musicians in Early America....

Picking Up the Pieces after the Coronavirus Disruption and Black Lives Matter

20 September 2020 biographies are also reviewed in the current issue: Caleb Boyd looks at Summertime: George Gershwin’s Life in Music by Richard Crawford, which focuses on Gershwin’s cultural impact, and Clark evaluates Beethoven: The Relentless Revolutionary by John...

[i]Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries[/i] and [i]Anthology for Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries[/i], by Joseph Auner

08 June 2015 Editor’s Note: With the following review of Joseph Auner’s textbook and anthology, we have published reviews of all six volumes in W.W. Norton’s new Western Music in Context series. I would like to extend my gratitude to the reviewers of each volume...

The Woman in the Music (On Feminism as Theory and Practice)

01 October 2000 outrage to justification based on lifestyle "choices" and the types of jobs held by significant numbers of women. 44Richard Crawford noted similar changes in the academy in his salute to the Paul Boylan years at Michigan. See Music at Michigan Vol. 33,...

Music in Medieval Medical Practice: Speculations and Certainties

01 October 2000 In its most cherished formative texts, both sacred and secular, the medieval world encountered the notion that music had measurable therapeutic value. From the story of David and Saul, perhaps the oldest account of applied music therapy that we...