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Songwriting in Modern Band?: Considering Constructivism as an Approach for Teaching Popular Music
non-linear music learning approaches, similar to those suggested in this article. To advance this notion, in 2014 the College Music Society released a report suggesting the need to both increase creativity and diversify the types of musicianship...
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Critical Language and Musical Thought in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
the art, culture, and thought of a period. 1This article was presented as part of a panel at the Annual Meeting of The College Music Society, Miami 1986. It represents a summary of my work in this field, and is taken in part from my articles, "Lully...
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From Hultsfred to Nashville: Factors Influencing the Success of a Music Cluster
Abstract Business Clustering is a phenomenon common in many industries around the world. Technology, manufacturing, and creative industries all experience the clustering of businesses to a certain geographical area to partake in the competitive...
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First Time Music Creators: A Glimpse Into High School Students’ Reactions to Creating Music
Abstract High school music classes in the United States are varied. Traditional band, orchestra, and chorus classes have been augmented by a variety of music classes and including classes that focus on the use of technology as a tool for music...
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Reflections on the Relationship of Analysis and Performance
Reflections on the Relationship of Analysis and Performance1 Introduction In their common endeavor to make and deliver personal interpretations about musical compositions, the activities and preoccupations of analysts and performers of music intersect...
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Music Education is Coming of Age
This article was part of a Symposium entitled Trends in Music Teaching. This discussion intends to convey to our readers current ideas on the newer trends in the teaching of music. Three of the articlesthis article, along with Teaching Children to Read...
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in the scholarly literature. Research on demographics of tenure-track music faculty began in 1974, when the College Music Society (CMS) Committee on the Status of Women, led by Adrienne Fried Bloch, first documented information in music faculties by...
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Open-Access Music Journals and the Possibility of Global Dialogue[sup]1[/sup]
Abstract Musicians increasingly operate in a global community connected by the internet that has affected performance, composition, and listening habits. Similarly, there is a growing trend of publishing scholarly research “open access,” meaning it is...
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Does Retrieval Practice Enhance Memorization of Piano Melodies?[sup]1[/sup]
Abstract Any music educator understands the importance of a solid music education. Research has shown that learning and performing music provides cognitive and neuroscientific benefits, such as enhanced speech processing, verbal and visual memory,...
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Study from its Foundations: A Manifesto for Progressive Change in the Undergraduate Preparation of Music Majors. The College Music Society. Robinson, K. (2002). Teacher education for a new world of musics. In B. Reimer (Ed.) World musics and music...
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Analysis and Performing Mozart
What sorts of analysis can assist performers of Mozart's music? My answer . . . just about everything.1 This paper offers various analytical perspectives that bear on performance issues in Mozart as I have applied them when teaching and coaching...
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Introduction This paper examines the potential for asynchronous musical collaboration in a chamber ensemble setting. The project was inspired by composer and conductor Eric Whitacre’s virtual choirs which took place from 2009-2014. The choirs, as the...
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Robert Schumann's Album for the Young and the Coming of Age of Nineteenth-Century Piano Pedagogy
In 1843, Robert Schumann noted that his highly original if slightly bizarre piano cycles of the 1830s had not endeared him to the public or to his publishers. He regretfully conceded that the financial responsibilities of supporting a wife and family...
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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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The Popular Album as Song Cycle: Paul Simon's [i]Still Crazy After All These Years[/i]
The analysis of popular music in the academic community is no longer the clandestine enterprise of a few heretical musicologists and theorists. Over the last ten years, popular music criticism has become an academically viable and even trendy affair...
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Ives and Yale: The Enduring Influence of a College Experience
In April 1998, the Yale University Department of Music and School of Music held a conference to commemorate the centenary of Charles Ives's graduation from Yale in 1898. "Ives & Yale '98" featured talks and panels on Ives's music and on his experiences...
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Creating Music Curricula of the Future: Preparing Undergraduate Music Students to Engage
are expected to inhabit. The invocation “be prepared” implies predictability: prepare for what, exactly? Visiting the College Music Society website in 2017 gives one an immediate sense of the higher education music climate surrounding “preparation.” The...
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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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Voice Leading and Harmony as Expressive Devices in the Early Music of the Beatles: She Loves You
A recent issue of Popular Music contains a review of Tim Riley's armchair listening guide to the Beatles, Tell Me Why, that concludes with the following statement: "No amount of academic analysing could capture the sheer geniality, innocence and barely...
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As The College Music Society reaches its fiftieth anniversary, it is fitting that we look back on developments in college music teaching over its first fifty years. In the teaching of music history, I see five major areas of change during that time:...
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