The Limits of Metaphorical Interpretation

01 October 1999 Problem of Evaluation," On Metaphor, 52. 38Lakoff and Johnson, op. cit., 144. 39Op. cit., 151. 40Op. cit., 30. authors: Stephen Miles author_ids: 914 authors: Stephen Miles author_ids: 914

The Teacher's Guide to Recent Recordings of Music by Black Composers

01 October 1973 This discography is restricted to "concert" music by composers of African ancestry, regardless of the country of their birth. I acknowledge immediately that several of the figures listed are represented on recordings by works in other genres (e.g.,...

The UW-River Falls Commissioned Composer Project

01 October 1984 The University of Wisconsin-River Falls, created over a century ago as a state-supported normal school, has progressed, like so many similar institutions, from state collegehood toward a designation as an "emerging" institution during the 1960s and,...

Convergences, no. 1

27 July 2012 Why should musical academe be interested in the music business and industry? As a source of financial resouces? That actually is a pretty good reason, but there are a great many artistic and cultural motivations as well, especially at this moment in...

Expanding Frames of Reference: Teaching the History of Electro-Acoustic Music

01 October 2006 Context Brian Mann once stated in these pages1 that competence in music appreciation is, among other things, a matter of continually expanding frames of reference. He stated, as an example, that one appreciates Beethoven's Eroica to a certain extent on...

Oral History in Music: A Practical Guide

01 October 1980 In a recent article for this journal Barry S. Brook discussed the function of oral history in musical research, its special advantages to historians, and the distinctions between oral and written documents.1 Oral history, he noted, provides "the...

Music and World Events Since 1945: A Graduate Seminar

17 March 2015 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...