Not Without a Grievance: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the Suffrage Movement, and the Reception of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

01 October 2024 Abstract In an 1882 article in the American suffrage newspaper, The Woman’s Journal, Thomas Wentworth Higginson expressed outrage that the Mendelssohn family had discouraged Fanny Hensel from composing and that her music had been published under Felix...

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...

Music as Organic Evolution: Schoenberg's Mythic Springboard Into the Future

01 October 1993 Although long an archetype of modern thought, biological evolution's eminent role has not always been an appropriate one: its convenience as a cover for all manner of processive change has often been abused. Arenas of thought once presumed accountable...

Robert Schumann's Album for the Young and the Coming of Age of Nineteenth-Century Piano Pedagogy

01 October 2001 In 1843, Robert Schumann noted that his highly original if slightly bizarre piano cycles of the 1830s had not endeared him to the public or to his publishers. He regretfully conceded that the financial responsibilities of supporting a wife and family...

Reflections on the Relationship of Analysis and Performance

01 October 1993 Reflections on the Relationship of Analysis and Performance1 Introduction In their common endeavor to make and deliver personal interpretations about musical compositions, the activities and preoccupations of analysts and performers of music intersect...

Review Essay of Books on Wagner

31 August 2005 Richard Wagner: The Last of the Titans, by Joachim Köhler. Translated by Stewart Spencer. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004. 704 p. ISBN 0-300-10422-7. Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde," by Roger...

Toward a Unified Theory of Music Esthetics for the College Music Curriculum

31 October 1995 Courses in music esthetics have been marginal to the college curriculum, possibly for two reasons: (1) The subject itself seems so amorphous that we are impatient in our search for key and all-embracing ideas that would fit into our standard course...

[i]Ethnomusicology Scholarship and Teaching[/i] - Neurodiversity and the Ethnomusicology of Autism

25 August 2014 Abstract In this article, I explore how musical experience and an emergent ethnomusicology of autism can provide both people with autism and their neurotypical counterparts with opportunities to collectively live, model, and promote an epistemology of...