Assuming the is required, and college is required, and music is required, and society is required, the following 530 results were found.
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Cultural Influences of Organ Music Composed by African American Women
Cultural Influences on Organ Music Written By African American Women 1 Abstract In this paper, major events in African American history are described and contrasted with the history of organ music written by African American women in the twentieth- and...
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Redefining Music Appreciation: Exploring the Power of Music
Abstract How might we create a world empowered by music? How might we change our culture to accept music as an innate intelligence and assist others in discovering the joy, enchantment, mystery, and power of music in their daily lives? Answers to these...
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Popular Music in Higher Education: Finding the Balance
Study from its Foundations: A Manifesto for Progressive Change in the Undergraduate Preparation of Music Majors”, The College Music Society, (Nov. 2014): 40. Jazz educator Wayne Bowman cautions that the addition of jazz within the collegiate environment...
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in the last 35 years. Our focus group was in the format of a panel discussion convened at a regional conference of the College Music Society. Six applied faculty members represented six institutions, public and private; participants taught in string,...
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Diabolical Dances and Rhythmic Poetry: Interpreting and Performing Franz Liszt’s Metric Conflicts
in a series of lecture-recitals given at the University of Mary Washington, Randolph-Macon College, and the College Music Society Mid-Atlantic Chapter’s 52nd Annual Conference, as well as a solo recital performed at Furman University. This research was...
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Music as Organic Evolution: Schoenberg's Mythic Springboard Into the Future
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...
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The Topic of the Sacred Hymn in Beethoven's Instrumental Music
Religious scenes in eighteenth-century opera are embedded within secular plots. To be dramatically effective it was necessary for composers, as well as librettists, costume designers, and set designers, to accentuate and magnify the religious nature of...
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The Global DJ Project and the Blank Canvas: World Music, Memory and Meaning
Abstract1 “The blank canvas” is a hypothetical psychoacoustic adaptation strategy which enables latter day American listeners to survive and even thrive within an environment of extreme musical diversity. This diversity is as much historical as it is...
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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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Emergent Dissonance and the Resolution of a Paradox
Our explanations of music over the centuries have not lacked for their perplexities, their mysteries and even contradictions. One of the most persistent anomalies of our history has managed to embody all three: the conceptual duplicity surrounding the...
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Playing to Learn: Pedagogical Games in Music Theory and Aural Skills
Abstract Pedagogical games serve serious purposes: deepening student engagement, promoting mastery of course content, and increasing motivation through peer support and constructive competition. Although instructors in many disciplines use pedagogical...
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And Now an Ideology from Our Sponsor: Musical Style and Semiosis in American Television Commercials
I. Introduction Television viewing is regarded by most in our society as a recreational pastime and an escapist form of entertainment. Yet media theorists hold the position that television viewing is not the passive activity that we might assume. John...
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Defending Music Theory in a Multicultural Curriculum
the theory sequence has been cut in most liberal arts institutions from 3-4 years to 2 years or less. In the College Music Society's 2000 survey of the theory curriculum at schools nationwide, the majority of the schools surveyed required only 2 years...
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A "Requiem for the Requiem": On Stravinsky's Requiem Canticles
A "Requiem for the Requiem"1: On Stravinsky's Requiem Canticles I. Time Travel and Ritual It is in the nature of things—and it is this which determines the uninterrupted march of evolution in art as much as in other branches of human activity—that...
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of the Midwest, presents the findings of a survey of current and past musicians of the ensemble, and introduces The College Music Society’s (CMS) archive of 44 HBM albums (1974 to 2015) as part of the CMS Symposium’s online Audio Performance Archive....
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Music Historiography in the Classroom
For the teacher of music history, no less than the teacher of any other subject, the selection of materials and methods for class use is an important decision. For the beginning instructor, the problem is especially acute, as he or she has no...
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Six Case Studies in New American Music: A Postmodern Portrait Gallery
Introduction This article is a sequel to "The Politics of Definition in New Music," which appeared in the previous issue of the College Music Symposium. In that article, the struggle between modernist and minimalist aesthetics was explored, with an aim...
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Designing a Blueprint for Curricular Reform in Music Teacher Education
The forum is here and now for starting this process through the potentially rich dialogue between colleagues in the College Music Society and among the greater higher education community. References Benson, W. (1967). Creative projects in musicianship:...
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Amerigrove's Pedigree: On [i]The New Grove Dictionary of American Music[/i]
Amerigrove's Pedigree: On The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, ed. H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie, with Susan Feder as editorial coordinator The study of music in the United States has a history of its own that now stretches back nearly a...
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Looking Through a Musical Lens: Music, Identity and Culture in Texas
Introduction1 During the 2010 and 2011 spring semesters we team-taught an upper-elective undergraduate interdisciplinary course at Baylor University entitled "Music and Identity in Texas Culture." As far as we could ascertain, a class of this nature...
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