Assuming roger is required, and miller is required, the following 13 results were found.
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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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The Music Industry, Musical Industry, and Dirty (Blond) Work
A Dirty Blond Show I’m home on a Saturday afternoon in Hampton, Connecticut and my band has a Blondie covers gig tonight in New York City. I give myself a strong coffee and four hours and for what Google Maps predicts is a three-hour drive (traffic...
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The Musical Wheel of Domingo Marcos Durán
Domingo Marcos Durán (circa 1465 to 1530) was the first person to publish a treatise on music in the Castilian language.1 His Lux Bella, a ten-page work on musical rudiments and plainchant with a fourteen-page tonary, was printed in Seville in 1492 by...
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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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Cage and Time: Temporality in Early and Late Works
Introduction The structural importance of time in John Cage's music is well recognized. As Cage himself has stated, "What is the most important element of music? The element of time."1 This concern with time can be traced back to his early works from...
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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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Students Evaluate Music Theory Courses: A Reddit Community Survey
Abstract Undergraduate music programs are currently reexamining the place and value of theory study. While some have argued for this core subject to be dissolved and absorbed by related courses, others defend that music theory is a non-negotiable core...
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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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[i]Music Video Games: Performance, Politics, and Play[/i] edited by Michael Austin
In the ever-growing catalogue of literature on video game music, much critical attention has been paid to one particular genre: the rhythm action game, or more broadly, the music video game. In his introduction to Music Video Games: Performance,...
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A Theory of Musicality as it Correlates to General Intelligence
The dawn of the twentieth century witnessed a remarkable, rather sudden burst of psychological research activities centering around predictive measurement of human mental function and potential. Until late in the 1800s, psychology had not yet become an...
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Undergraduate Preparation for Graduate Education—Case Western Reserve University
In the belief that we can learn a great deal from our students, the Editor of SYMPOSIUM asked a number of graduate students in music to tell us what they feel was both good and bad about their undergraduate education in music. The Editor approached a...
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Sometime in March 1939 Leonard Bernstein, then a Harvard University senior, wrote a letter to his former piano teacher and future secretarial assistant Helen Coates on Stillman Infirmary letterhead.2 After a day which found him prostrate as a "victime...
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Many features of music contribute to its positive potential for promoting social harmony. But music’s influence on human interaction is not entirely benign. I consider features of music that enable it to serve such contrary projects, beginning by...
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