Saying Something Else: Improvisation and Music-Play Facilitation in a Medical Ethnomusicology Program for Children on the Autism Spectrum

01 October 2008 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...

The Learning Process and Teaching

01 October 1982 Hill Palomares and Geraldine Ball (La Mesa, California), and Circlebook by Jim Ballard (Amherst, Mass., 1975). authors: Tom Benjamin author_ids: 1303 authors: Tom Benjamin author_ids: 1303

A Brief History of Composers' Groups in the United States

01 October 1980 From a hasty perusal of this year's CMS program (1979), I can only conclude that there are but few of us reckless generalists still about, ready to cover the entire history of a country's musical activity, or at least one part of it, in something like...

From Settler Colonialism to Standing Rock: Hearing Native Voices for Peace

30 November 2018 Abstract The water protectors of the Standing Rock Sioux captured public attention with their opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline. Yet their actions are only the most recent in a long history of indigenous resistance to resource extraction and...

Conducting a Liberatory Pedagogy: Empowering the Music Apprentice as a Knowledge Producer in the Classroom

01 March 2022 Abstract Music instruction in the college and the conservatory is dominated by the ancient master-apprentice model of instruction, which has problematic cultural and pedagogical ramifications. This essay first investigates apprenticeship from...

The Ethics and Legality of Beta Blockers for Performance Anxiety: What Every Educator Should Know

01 October 2011 Educators are required to make many pedagogical decisions, and fortunately, most are quite simple and do not necessitate major ethical considerations. Some decisions might come easily—for instance whether to copy music for a page turn or view a video...

“Oh My Son!”: The Musical Origins and Function of King David’s Lamentation

01 October 2009 Introduction In his 1981 article “Prince Henry as Absalom in David’s Lamentations” Irving Godt examined a group of seventeenth-century English settings based on King David’s laments for his son Absalom and his friend Jonathan.1 On the basis of the...

Julius Weiss: Scott Joplin's First Piano Teacher

01 October 1979 In writing musical biographies and in tracing the influence of one musical generation upon another, musicologists have traditionally spent considerable time and effort to investigate teacher-student relationships. Until recently this seems to have been...

A Pilot Study of Symphony Orchestra Musicians

01 October 1978 The primary objectives of the Pilot study, supported by a grant from the research division of the National Endowment for the Arts, were to identify and define significant factors of training and career experiences, develop data-gathering instruments...