Robert B. Carl
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In the year 1831, the music critic for Iris Ludwig Rellstab covered the Bonn Gesangverein's performance of Don Giovanni directed by the twenty-one-year-old Johanna Kinkel (then Mockel). In his review, he wrote that "the director, strictly speaking, was...
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Music as Organic Evolution: Schoenberg's Mythic Springboard Into the Future
Although long an archetype of modern thought, biological evolution's eminent role has not always been an appropriate one: its convenience as a cover for all manner of processive change has often been abused. Arenas of thought once presumed accountable...
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The purpose of this article is to provide the reader with a survey of anthologies of music published since 1965. Prior to this date, the classroom teacher had access to only a few compilations of music. These included, for example, Albert Wier's...
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Is It Possible to Sing the Prologue to Orlando di Lasso’s [i]Prophetiae Sibyllarum[/i] in Tune?
Abstract All tuning systems except equal temperament (ET) have small irreconcilable mathematical discrepancies. In particular, just intonation (JI), espoused by Zarlino and other Renaissance theorists as an ideal tuning system, was already known in the...
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Questioning as an Analytical Tool: Viewing the Score through the Eyes of the Composer
Abstract Always the beautiful answer Who asks a more beautiful question.1Warren Berger, preface to A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas (New York: Bloomsbury, 2014). -E.E. Cummings The relationship between...
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Paul Hindemith's Philosophy of Music and the Role of [i]The Four Temperaments[/i]
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,...
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Beethoven's Critics: Aesthetic Dilemmas and Resolutions During the Composer's Lifetime, by Robin Wallace. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. viii + 184 pp. ISBN 0521386349. It was prudent of Robin Wallace to advise the reader that this book...
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Music Historiography in the Classroom
For the teacher of music history, no less than the teacher of any other subject, the selection of materials and methods for class use is an important decision. For the beginning instructor, the problem is especially acute, as he or she has no...
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The Toscanini Memorial Archives at The New York Public Library
It may seem perverse to begin a report like this with one negative, let alone two, but experience has shown that it is wise to correct from the start two common misapprehensions about the Toscanini Memorial Archives. First, the Toscanini Memorial...
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Multi-Linear Continuity and "Songs to the Dark Virgin" by Florence Price [1888-1953]
Abstract The poem “Songs to the Dark Virgin,” composed by Langston Hughes and included in his 1926 volume The Weary Blues, presents an obscure and complex text that seems to address an ambiguous second-person entity, the “Dark Virgin.” In this article...
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Teleology and Structural Determinants in Beethoven's C# Minor Quartet, Op. 131
To characterize Beethoven's Minor Quartet as teleology is to underscore its purposeful structural design, and to consider how Beethoven achieved its powerful underlying integration in movements comprising a scenario of dramatic contrasts. The work...
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Voice Leading and Harmony as Expressive Devices in the Early Music of the Beatles: She Loves You
A recent issue of Popular Music contains a review of Tim Riley's armchair listening guide to the Beatles, Tell Me Why, that concludes with the following statement: "No amount of academic analysing could capture the sheer geniality, innocence and barely...
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The Topic of the Sacred Hymn in Beethoven's Instrumental Music
Religious scenes in eighteenth-century opera are embedded within secular plots. To be dramatically effective it was necessary for composers, as well as librettists, costume designers, and set designers, to accentuate and magnify the religious nature of...
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A Survey of Recent Publications Relating to Nineteenth-Century Music and Musicians
Anyone who has taught a course on romantic music deplores the scarcity of suitable texts. Not only is there no outstanding survey of the period, but with few exceptions we cannot even resort to completely reliable studies of particular genres or...
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A Taxonomy of Sentence Structures
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...
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Composers' Words, Theorists' Analyses, Ravel's Music (Sometimes the Twain Shall Meet)
Last year a graduate student in musicology at the University of Connecticut took an independent study with me on the music of Maurice Ravel. While in the end his work was insightful and successful, he was quite frustrated and discouraged at the...
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[i]New Oxford History of Music[/i], vol. 9: [i]Romanticism (1830-1890)[/i], edited by Gerald Abraham
New Oxford History of Music, vol. 9: Romanticism (1830-1890), edited by Gerald Abraham. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. xx + 935 pp. ISBN 0-19-316309-8. It takes temerity these days to write a history of music. The very nature of...
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The Renaissance of Sir Arthur Sullivan
When the authoritative work on unjustly neglected composers is written, a prominent chapter will surely have to be devoted to Victorian England's Wunderkind, Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900). Despite the fact that he is one of the very few British composers...
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Transformation vs. Prolongation in Brahms's "In der Fremde"
In a recent paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Music Theory, Frank Samarotto discussed a specific point of contrast between the transformational approach to tonal harmony, in the form of Neo-Riemannian triadic transformational...
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Two-Piano Music Around Beethoven's Time: Its Significance for the College Teacher
College music instructors face an ongoing challenge to provide their students with experiences that will lead to growth in musicianship. An effective means to achieve this growth is through ensemble performance. Such active music making with others is...
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