Assuming robert is required, and e is required, and brown is required, the following 55 results were found.
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Abstract Music instruction in the college and the conservatory is dominated by the ancient master-apprentice model of instruction, which has problematic cultural and pedagogical ramifications. This essay first investigates apprenticeship from...
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Introduction Orchestral conducting has been the latest door of opportunity to open for women in the field of music. Although women have been actively involved in performance, composition, teaching, and patronage from the history of the ancient Greeks...
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Union Musicians and the Medal of Honor During the American Civil War
Abstract The sound of fifes, drums, and bugles are recognized as a commonplace yet significant part of the Civil War soundscape. Those who performed this music, however, have drawn less attention than the pieces they performed. This is unfortunate, as...
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Continuing the Dialogue -- A Concerned Educator Deconstructs
In the May 1992 issue of the CMS Newsletter, articles by Dale Olsen and Robert Brown present two different views of the relationship between "ethnomusicology" and "world music," seen by one author as overlapping areas in the current curriculum and by...
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Music Iconography and Medieval Performance Practice
Introduction This study of iconography and performance practice is divided into two parts. Part I deals with the definition of iconography and its relationship to performance practice. Part II outlines some general principles necessary to the study of...
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I Historical/stylistic periods in music are both useful and perplexing concepts; they simultaneously clarify and hinder one's perception of a given period and a given work. Part of the difficulty arises from a general lack of agreement as to what...
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Rereading Absence: Women in Medieval and Renaissance Music
During the last twenty years, a consideration of the roles of women and minorities in musical life has become increasingly central to the study of music. The "canon" of old has proven to have porous boundaries, with works by women composers and by...
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World Music - Past, Present, and Future
goal of writing about music. The Wesleyan program was conceived from a rather different philosophical base (see Robert E. Brown, "World Music: The Voyager Enigma," Music in the Dialogue of Cultures: Traditional Music and Cultural Policy, ed. by Max...
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How the human mind structures its complex environment is a topic that has been explored for generations by individuals from a wide variety of disciplines. Musicians now seem to be generally aware that pattern perception is highly relevant to their...
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musical performance competency as a methodology. What remained was for researchers to acknowledge their personal roles. Robert E. Brown, probably Hood’s most fervent apostle of performance as a central methodology, retained a certain scholarly distance...
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There is a greater need than pianoforte teachers and singing teachers, and that is a numerous company of writers and talkers who shall teach the people how to listen to music so that it shall not pass through their heads like a vast tonal...
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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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Playing to Learn: Pedagogical Games in Music Theory and Aural Skills
Abstract Pedagogical games serve serious purposes: deepening student engagement, promoting mastery of course content, and increasing motivation through peer support and constructive competition. Although instructors in many disciplines use pedagogical...
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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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Improvisation in the Aural Curriculum: An Imperative
Improvisation has long been a part of the music curriculum, at least in certain areas of study. It is a staple of jazz studies where students learn the skill through ensembles and specific courses. Organists are taught improvisation as a means of...
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Composers' Revisions and the Creative Process
How do composers write music? To what extent can we explain their thought processes? Ever since Nottebohm's pioneering excavations of Beethoven's sketchbooks, musicologists and theorists have tried to find answers in composers' sketches and drafts....
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Preface to a Graduate Course in the History of Music Theory
As a doctoral degree certifies (among other things) to a breadth of knowledge in the field, one requirement for the Ph.D. in music theory should be a scholarly course surveying the history of theory. To decide on this requirement, however, is easier...
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Abstract Musculoskeletal health in conductors is an underexplored topic within occupational studies of musicians and the pedagogical literature in conducting. The current mixed methods survey study investigated (1) the prevalence and severity of...
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Abstract William Grant Still’s Seven Traceries (1940) is a set of piano pieces that exhibits a number of post-tonal materials and techniques such as octatonicism, extended tertian sonorities, dense chromaticism, and extensive motivic development....
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And Now We Begin—A Survey of Recent Theory Texts
The 1960s were a time for reexamination of the aims, contents and methods of college courses designed to teach music theory, and, as a corollary, of the texts intended for those courses. Several factors contributed to the creation of a "crisis in the...
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