Seizing the Menotti Moment: Opera meets McLuhan meets Millennials

14 November 2016 Abstract This co-authored paper examines how theories about the effects of technology on society, developed by communications theorist Marshall McLuhan in the mid-twentieth century, are represented in Gian Carlo Menotti’s double bill, The Telephone and...

Union Musicians and the Medal of Honor During the American Civil War

08 July 2014 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...

Musical Pattern Perception

01 October 1979 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...

The Eighteenth Century as a Music-Historical Epoch: A Different Argument for the Proposition

01 October 1987 Sebastian Bach, Wege der Forschung, vol. 170 (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1970), 247-89. authors: Robert L. Marshall author_ids: 1222 authors: Robert L. Marshall author_ids: 1222

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...

The Fairbank Collection

01 October 1976 The Newberry Library, Chicago, contains a distinguished music collection, rare book, manuscript, and print holdings, and archives relevant both to the United States (and its Indian populations) and to the city of Chicago. Thus it is understandable that...

Research Applications in Music CAI

01 October 1981 This article was co-authored by Professor Killam and her colleagues at North Texas State University: Philip Baczewski, Antoinette Corbet, Paul Edward Dworak, Jana Kubitza, Michael Morgan, and Lawrence Woodruff. INTRODUCTION Computer-assisted...

A New Look at Palestrina's [i]Missa Papae Marcelli[/i]

01 October 1983 he cites (on pp. 4-5) chants of the Ordinary that I am unable to find in the Kyriale. On the other hand, Robert L. Marshall demonstrates that for Palestrina even plainchant hymns might require some simplification; "The Paraphrase Technique of Palestrina...

College Applied Faculty: The Disjunction of Performer, Teacher, and Educator

01 October 2009 College applied studio teaching has been examined, evaluated, and criticized in recent decades, but it has remained in place, unchanged in most ways due to the inherent “conserving” nature of the music conservatory, or to what Schlueter refers to as an...

Issues Regarding the Teaching of Non-Western Performance Traditions Within the College Music Curriculum

01 October 1995 Mozart wrote a number of these worksand read some bawdy remarks that Mozart had included within the manuscript (see Robert L. Marshall, editor, Mozart Speaks: Views on Music, Musicians, and the World, NY: Schirmer Books, 1991). When the lecture was...