Task Force on the Undergraduate Music Major
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Uncovering and Teaching the Process of Analysis to Undergraduate Music Theory Students
Change in the Undergraduate Preparation of Music Majors,” Report from the College Music Society Task Force on the Undergraduate Music Major,...
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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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Studies of social and interactive processes in music improvisation constitute an important dimension of contemporary ethnomusicological research.1 The range of topics, issues, and traditions addressed is vast, yet one may identify across this...
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A Re-examination of Teacher Training in Music
SYMPOSIUM A Re-examination of Teacher Training in Music Paper: Alexander L. Ringer Panel: Theodore F. Normann, Douglas Kidd, Harold C. Youngberg At the December 30, 1960, session of the CMS annual meetings, University of California, Berkeley. According...
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Introducing Musical Meaning through Popular Music
Abstract When analyzing challenging texted art music, all too often the act of labeling a concept (for example, “common-tone modulation”) can mislead students into thinking that the label is the end of the story. Several factors, such as difficulty in...
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Popular Music in Higher Education: Finding the Balance
to music education that dominates higher education is a primary focus in the 2014 College Music Society’s Task Force on the Undergraduate Music Major, where the authors take issue with the reliance on interpretive musical study at the expense of the...
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Creating Music Curricula of the Future: Preparing Undergraduate Music Students to Engage
proposals for upcoming conferences. Seemingly building upon the 2014 (revised, 2016) “Report of the Task Force on the Undergraduate Music Major” and the 21st Century Music Schools Summit in 2016, “Creating Music Curricula of the Future” appears to be a...
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skills and understandings may well be inaccurate. Investigating the music core, the Report of the CMS Task Force on the Undergraduate Music Major, released in November of 2014, provides recommendations for progressive change in the undergraduate...
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Living the Life We Sing About: A Gospel Choir Challenges Academe
I'm gonna live the life I sing about in my song.... I can't go to church, shout all day Sunday, Go out, get drunk, and rave all day Monday. I got to live the life I sing about in my song. —gospel song lyrics, Thomas A. Dorsey I. Introduction The...
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A Primer for Atonal Set Theory
A Primer for Atonal Set Theory1 Atonal set theory has a bad reputation. Like Schenkerian analysis in its earlier days, set theory has had an air of the secret society about it, with admission granted only to those who possess the magic password, a...
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Music and World Events Since 1945: A Graduate Seminar
music making, both as a financial and a social activity. In 2013, the College Music Society convened the Task Force on the Undergraduate Music Major (TFUMM) in response to “challenges” to collegiate music training, “particularly in the classical music...
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Rereading Absence: Women in Medieval and Renaissance Music
During the last twenty years, a consideration of the roles of women and minorities in musical life has become increasingly central to the study of music. The "canon" of old has proven to have porous boundaries, with works by women composers and by...
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Your Turn to Lead: Cultivating Student Leadership in Music Theory and Aural Skills
Introduction Universities and colleges aspire to equip students for leadership in their professions, and institutions frequently include leadership education in their statements of mission and purpose. According to Susan Komives and Matthew Sowcik...
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Poking the Pillars: A Preliminary Evaluation of Integration, Diversity, and Creativity
This article provides a preliminary critical evaluation of the central tenets of the report of the CMS Task Force on the Undergraduate Music Major (TFUMM) in the context of current music theory, including concerns that I have heard raised by other...
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Expanding Frames of Reference: Teaching the History of Electro-Acoustic Music
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...
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Abstract In today’s music world, a wide variety of music styles and traditions demand that musicians improvise to some degree. To best prepare musicians for successful careers as performers and teachers in the 21st-century global society, teaching...
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Abstract This article explores tracing as an analytical method and a pedagogical tool. I define “tracing” as following a singular event throughout a work, tracking its evolution, and placing it in an overall narrative context. I use Chopin’s Mazurka in...
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Music Matters: Curricular Change During Times of Institutional Stress
The curriculum overhaul described in this essay was the result of a practical and intellectual collaboration with three departmental colleagues, whom I acknowledge with gratitude: Robert Cowles, Charity Lofthouse, and Mark Olivieri. Editor, Scholarship...
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Creativity in the College Music Classroom: Guidelines for Effective Integration
careers should inspire us to try to maximize our students’ inventiveness. The College Music Society’s Task Force on the Undergraduate Music Major noted the importance of creativity in global music-making, but asserted that “contemporary tertiary-level...
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Paideia con Salsa: Charles Keil, Groovology, and the Undergraduate Music Curriculum
Despite being a professor in American Studies at SUNY-Buffalo for most of his academic life, Charles (Charlie) Keil’s (b. 1939) career was dominated by an interest in music and music education. His scholarly contributions took many forms, such as...
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