Robert Moon
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[i]Idea[/i] and Analysis: Aspects of Unification in Musical Explanation
Idea and Analysis: Aspects of Unification in Musical Explanation1 I myself consider the totality of a piece as the idea: the idea which its creator wanted to present. (Arnold Schoenberg, "New Music, Outmoded Music, Style and Idea (1946)," Style and...
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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...
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How Classical Musicians Develop Alternate Careers
successfully transition into alternate careers outside of performing and teaching and beyond the music industry. authors: Robert Moon author_ids: 557 authors: Robert Moon author_ids: 557
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Sixteenth-Century Conception of Harmony
Modern musicians generally employ the term harmony in reference to the structure, function, and interrelationships of simultaneously combined musical tones. Thus narrowly defined, the term serves as part of a highly specialized, technical vocabulary...
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A "Requiem for the Requiem": On Stravinsky's Requiem Canticles
A "Requiem for the Requiem"1: On Stravinsky's Requiem Canticles I. Time Travel and Ritual It is in the nature of things—and it is this which determines the uninterrupted march of evolution in art as much as in other branches of human activity—that...
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Beyond Childhood: Poulenc, [i]La courte paille[/i], and the Aural Envelope
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....
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Abstract This paper is the second in a two-part series conducted by the College Music Society Council on Music Education investigating the recruitment and retention of students from underrepresented populations into undergraduate music teacher...
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Introducing the Learning Portfolio into Music Theory Core Pedagogy
Introduction Undergraduate music programs at North American institutions of higher learning typically require music majors to complete successfully a core grouping of theory courses in order to fulfill degree requirements. These courses are considered...
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Defending Music Theory in a Multicultural Curriculum
Defending Music Theory in a Multicultural Curriculum1 Music theory has served as the foundation for undergraduate music curricula in the United States for much of the past century. Within many music departments, it has been used to introduce students...
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This year, 1999, is the 40th anniversary of The College Music Society. It is also the year of my 40th high school reunion. Indeed, 1959 was a year that certainly came to have a great effect on me! Since I often say that I am now finally a mature young...
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The Indian Music Debate and "American" Music in the Progressive Era
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...
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The Shock of the Familiar: Hearing Ourselves in Others' Voices
Introduction1 Thank you, President Harding, the Board of Directors, and members of The College Music Society. I was truly honored, and unnerved, when Tayloe approached me about delivering the Robert Trotter Lecture at your annual meeting. You see, I've...
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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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Music and World Events Since 1945: A Graduate Seminar
Introduction The course, Music and World Events Since 1945, is a graduate multidisciplinary seminar centering on works by major composers in direct response to world events such as war, disease, protest, human rights movements, and environmental...
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Abstract The recruitment and retention of music education majors from underrepresented populations are emerging as crucial focal points in music education discourse. As the field collectively grapples with the urgency of addressing these concerns,...
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Music in Medieval Medical Practice: Speculations and Certainties
In its most cherished formative texts, both sacred and secular, the medieval world encountered the notion that music had measurable therapeutic value. From the story of David and Saul, perhaps the oldest account of applied music therapy that we...
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Poem to Music: Schumann's "Mondnacht" Setting
"Mondnacht" is described by Oskar Seidlin as Eichendorff's "most beautiful poem, one of the few perfect lyrical marvels in the German language."1 Schumann's universally beloved setting, "pure magic" in Gerald Moore's words,2 is equally prized as one of...
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Jeff Beck: The Quintessential Postmodern Virtuoso Meets Baudrillard’s Racing Driver and his Double
Abstract Jean Baudrillard contends that human achievement has become so intertwined with the media, technology, and hypereality that individual accomplishment has become nearly impossible. This generates nostalgia for exceptional talents who can...
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Jousting for Queens or Return to the (Music) Lists As the morning festivities drew to a close on the final day of the CMS jousting match in Columbus last December, the author of these words entered the lists unexpectedly, fired a round of off-the-cuff...
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1994 Robert M. Trotter Lecture We are at an important historical moment, in which music scholarship is undergoing redefinition and reevaluation. There are major changes in the field: First, university resources are being reduced while greater demands...
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