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...

[i]Erlkönig:[/i] Goethe, Schubert, and Resurrecting the Son

01 May 2021 Abstract The poetic interpretation of Goethe’s Erlking (persona) varies among music scholars, yet most agree that whatever he is or represents, the Erlking personifies the dark side of human nature and is responsible, directly or at least indirectly,...

The Basset Clarinet of Anton Stadler

01 October 1982 Anton Stadler was a clarinet virtuoso of Vienna and close friend of Mozart (Fig. 1).1 Figure 1. Silhouette of Anton Stadler. Courtesy of the Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, East Berlin. Stadler and Theodor Lotz (who was Royal Instrument Maker to the...

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...

Comprehending Twelve-Tone Music as an Extension of the Primary Musical Language of Tonality

01 October 1984 During the past decade several of Schoenberg's musical compositions have begun to take their places in the standard concert repertoire. Fine recorded performances have been made available of each of his mature works; and successful live performances of...

The Person First—And Together

01 October 1979 The time is 12:00 noon, Tuesday. The door to my studio is open and I am waiting for Jeff, Mary, and Chris. Their lesson is scheduled for this hour. All four of us seem to look forward consistently to seeing one another at this time; during the week we...

Schenkerian Analysis, Metaphor, and Performance

01 October 2007 One model of the relation between analysis and performance asserts that analysis, because it is a rational endeavor, is in a position to preside over performance—to determine how it should be—because performance is by nature more intuitive and emotive....

Demographics of Instructors of Selected First-Year Undergraduate Music Courses

01 October 2024 Abstract Using data from university websites and other online sources, this study gathers the gender identity, rank, and terminal degree status of teachers of selected courses for first-year undergraduate music majors – specifically, group piano, music...

Comparative Theory: A Systematic Approach to the Study of World Music

01 October 1972 There are few signs that composers and music theorists have participated with more than faint enthusiasm in the current and widespread move to make the study of non-Western music a basic component in American university practice. Most of my colleagues...

Musical Performance and Scholarship in Higher Education

01 October 1981 In higher education today there exists an apparent dilemma involving the role and function of the performing musician as a member of the university community. The purpose of this article is to present and explicate the problem and to suggest a way to...

Oral History and Music History in Our Time

01 October 1979 Oral History and Music History in Our Time1 The traditional historian usually writes history long after the fact. In most cases, when he begins his work, all but the merest fraction of the significant evidence has been dispersed or has disappeared...

Beyond Childhood: Poulenc, [i]La courte paille[/i], and the Aural Envelope

01 October 2009 Introduction: Evoking Childhood Musically Carnival of the Animals. Children’s Corner. Mother Goose. Musical depictions of the childhood experience have attracted a wide spectrum of composers, reaching an apex in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries....