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Performance: The Profession and Preparation for It
The music profession includes a diversity of occupations: performing, composing, speculating about the art, teaching, publishing, or using music in the pursuit of some practical occupation. The art of music touches on the daily life of almost everyone...
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A Business Model for Independent Music Teachers Throughout history, people have learned to work together and to cooperate for mutual benefit. In ancient times, communities cooperated in gathering food, building shelters, hunting and fishing. During the...
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The Basset Clarinet of Anton Stadler
Anton Stadler was a clarinet virtuoso of Vienna and close friend of Mozart (Fig. 1).1 Figure 1. Silhouette of Anton Stadler. Courtesy of the Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, East Berlin. Stadler and Theodor Lotz (who was Royal Instrument Maker to the...
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Review Essay of Five Music Appreciation Textbooks
The Art of Listening to Music, by Jean Ferris. Madison, Wisconsin: Brown and Benchmark, 1995. 448 pp. ISBN 0-697-24544-6. Music: An Appreciation, by Roger Kamien. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994. xxv + 405 pp. ISBN 0-07-034819-7. Listen, by Joseph Kerman....
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Beyond Music in Western Civilization: Issues in Undergraduate Music History Literacy
history, it is not surprising that some serious and lively debate on these subjects is now taking place within The College Music Society and the Sonneck Society.10 More, however, needs to occur within the musicological community at large. Those of us...
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Death, Taxes, and the Right of Publicity: The Price of Fame in the Music Industry
Abstract This article examines the complex treatment of the Right of Publicity (ROP), which is the legal interest in a person’s name, image, and likeness (NIL), in United States estate taxation. Drawing on recent disputes involving the estates of...
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Our Challenge for the Eighties
I hope you will forgive me the use of a recent but already worn cliché, but before addressing the challenge for the decade ahead of us I think it appropriate to reflect upon our present status as we begin the year 1980. The cliché to which I refer is...
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Origins and Expressions To say that the relationship between music, health, and healing is as ancient as music itself, perhaps creates a false dichotomy that, in their origin, music and healing were separate or unrelated entities, and could therefore...
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Boston, 30 December 2013. At about noontime, a service van stopped near an office building in busy Bedford Street. Two gentlemen stepped out of the vehicle and, without much ado, affixed a plaque to the façade of the building as tourists and locals on...
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Implementing Game Pedagogy into Music Business Curriculum: The Music Industry Immersion
Introduction Providing students with practical working experience while they are completing their program requirements is a challenge for faculty in higher education. New technology and the rapid convergence of arts-related disciplines require that...
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Psychomusicology—Perceptual/Cognitive Research with Implications for the Composer and Performer
Stimulation of interest in the study of music as a sensory experience has generally been attributed to Helmholtz. But the scientific and technological advances of the past two decades, coupled with concentrated research efforts by music researchers,...
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Improvisation in the Aural Curriculum: An Imperative
Improvisation has long been a part of the music curriculum, at least in certain areas of study. It is a staple of jazz studies where students learn the skill through ensembles and specific courses. Organists are taught improvisation as a means of...
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majority of announcements of faculty openings in the broad field of music also are listed in the online listing of The College Music Society. So far, so good. These venues are accessible to all, and ensure that openings receive a wide coverage and...
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The D.A.: An Alternative Doctoral Pattern for the Arts
Major changes in the education of prospective college music faculty were advocated at the 1984 Dearborn Conference on Music in General Studies. The arguments were valid and well presented as a statement of the problem, but somewhat less so when it came...
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Technology, Culture, and Music
Salsa is now a bigger seller than catsup in the United States. The imminent passing of the third millennium is seen by many as a symbol of renewal. This idea has special relevance for Western music which, in some very important respects, is...
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The Origin of Armstrong's Hot Fives and Hot Sevens
It has been almost fifty years since Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings of 1925-19281 were first recognized in print as a watershed of jazz history and the means by which the trumpeter emerged as the style's first transcendent figure.2...
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Preserving Musical Cultures - Contemplations and Confessions
Example 1. Beethoven, Piano sonata op. 110 I want to talk to you about some musicians, scholars, and teachers who have inspired me, and who have been among my hero figures for many years. They are individuals who have done a great deal to preserve...
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Crisis in Music Education: Higher Education's Role
Current discussions of the crisis in music education often define the "cutback problem" in public school music as a failure in public relations. To overcome the present dilemma, music educators are encouraged to organize support groups, marketing...
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Dialogue and Monologue in the Professional Community
My intention is to present a discussion of particular problems by which exchanges among music theorists have seemed to me inhibited in the past several decades. What I propose is a critical commentary, not in reproof but in advocacy of certain...
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Empirical Reality Versus the Systems Malady
Colleges and universities are known worldwide as centers for formal research as well as for informal thought about “what is” and “what is not.” They don’t always fulfill this mission with precision, but the search persists. Unfortunately, although...
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