Bartok at the Crossroads: A Classical Sonatina from Five Rumanian Folk Dances

01 October 2003 Bartók's American Years: The Naked Face of Genius (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1958), 134. authors: Sylvia Parker author_ids: 193 authors: Sylvia Parker author_ids: 193

Jenny Lind and P. T. Barnum: A Success Story of Music, Business, and Philanthropy

20 September 2019 Trio 2 Flutes and Soprano.” L’etoile du nord – “C’est bien lui.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te_VL1e5s_U. authors: Sylvia Parker author_ids: 193 authors: Sylvia Parker author_ids: 193

Tell Me A Story: Teaching Music Composition Through Narrative Design

20 September 2019 sonata form.1Sabine Feisst, Schoenberg’s New World: The American Years (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 225. Sylvia Parker, writing in the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, observed that a model composition assignment designed to teach sonata...

Claude Debussy's Gamelan

27 August 2012 Introduction The year 1889 marked the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution and the nation celebrated with the Paris Exposition Universelle, an extraordinary World's Fair. The importance of the event was emphasized by the construction of the...