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...

A Survey of Recent Publications Relating to Nineteenth-Century Music and Musicians

01 October 1969 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...

A Study in Jazz Historiography: [i]The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz[/i]

01 October 1989 A Study in Jazz Historiography: The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz * The word monumental has been overused in recent years in connection with the New Grove Dictionaries, but there seems to be no adequate substitute for describing the new addition to the...

Teaching Embodied Musickmaking: Pedagogical Perspectives from South Asian Music and Dance

13 May 2016 Embodied cognition posits that the mind and body function as a single entity and that all aspects of the mind are shaped by the body. Embodied pedagogy, influenced by embodied cognition, realizes the role of the body and its relationship to the mind...

Toward Analytic Reconciliation of Outer Form, Harmonic Prolongation and Function

03 October 2005 Toward Analytic Reconciliation of Outer Form, Harmonic Prolongation and Function Written by Kevin J. Swinden Symposium Volume 45 Grieg's "The Song of Siri Dale" is a G minor setting in Grieg's op. 66 collection of Norwegian Folk Songs for solo piano....

Teaching Rap: Musings at Semester's End

01 October 1997 Teaching Rap: Musings At Semester's End1 Hip-hop and its musical vehicle, rap, have become ubiquitous on college campuses in the United States in the 1990s. Among the college set, hip-hop's influence transcends boundaries of race, ethnicity, class, and...

Music, Myth and Man: A New Concept of Teaching Music Appreciation

01 October 1979 In the struggle to give the wishes of my heart artistic shape, . . . my studies thus bore me, through the legends of the Middle Ages, right down to their foundation in the old Germanic myths. . . . What here I saw was no longer the Figure of...

The Duke Ellington Renaissance: A Review of Recent Books, Recordings, and Music Editions

01 October 2000 Book title: Duke Ellington: A Listener's Guide Book author: Eddie Lambert ISBN: 0-8108-3161-9 TISBN: 0810831619 Book title: Duke Ellington: A Spiritual Biography Book author: Janna Tull Steed ISBN: 0-8245-2351-2 TISBN: 0824523512 Book title: Duke's...

Two-Piano Music Around Beethoven's Time: Its Significance for the College Teacher

01 October 1977 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...

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...

Using the Music Library

01 October 1978 In Volume 11 of SYMPOSIUM, a group of graduate students, many of whom have gone on to distinguished careers, discussed the topic "Undergraduate Preparation for Graduate Study in Music." Some of the comments made were: "[The undergraduate school] failed...

Music Teacher Education in America (1753-1840): A Look at One of its Three Sources

01 October 1991 In his address at the formation of the Society for Music Teacher Education in San Antonio in 1982, Charles Leonhard described American music teacher education as "a hybrid growing out of three traditions in higher education: the liberal arts tradition,...

Modifying DMA Curricula and Advising Part II of [i]Equipping DMA Candidates to Win Tenure-Track Jobs[/i]

01 May 2021 Introduction In Part I of this essay, I identified six key qualifications, other than an earned doctorate, found in 25 tenure-track applied music faculty vacancy announcements: 1. teaching; 2. artistic/scholarly work; 3. career development; 4....

The Entrepreneurship Curriculum for Music Students: Thoughts Towards a Consensus

03 October 2005 The increasing importance of professional development is one of the most dynamic trends emerging in the arts within higher education. Publicly funded institutions in particular are increasingly relying on entrepreneurship as a means to prepare students...

Empathy: A Global Imperative for Peace

30 November 2018 Abstract This essay maintains that interplays between empathy, goodwill and other-regarding behaviors can make a huge difference in arguing one type of community into existence (one based on inclusivity, peace, respect, and universal human values) as...