[i]Music Video Games: Performance, Politics, and Play[/i] edited by Michael Austin

09 January 2018 In the ever-growing catalogue of literature on video game music, much critical attention has been paid to one particular genre: the rhythm action game, or more broadly, the music video game. In his introduction to Music Video Games: Performance,...

The Teacher's Guide to Recent Recordings of Music by Black Composers

01 October 1973 This discography is restricted to "concert" music by composers of African ancestry, regardless of the country of their birth. I acknowledge immediately that several of the figures listed are represented on recordings by works in other genres (e.g.,...

Shape/Interval Contours and Their Ordered Transformations: A Motivic Approach to Twentieth-Century Music Analysis and Aural Skills

03 October 2005 Scholars often approach the study of twentieth-century music by distributing it into a number of schools or isms. As a result, we have become accustomed to labeling twentieth-century music in terms of stylistic categories such as impressionism,...

Union Musicians and the Medal of Honor During the American Civil War

08 July 2014 Abstract The sound of fifes, drums, and bugles are recognized as a commonplace yet significant part of the Civil War soundscape. Those who performed this music, however, have drawn less attention than the pieces they performed. This is unfortunate, as...

And Now We Begin—A Survey of Recent Theory Texts

01 October 1973 The 1960s were a time for reexamination of the aims, contents and methods of college courses designed to teach music theory, and, as a corollary, of the texts intended for those courses. Several factors contributed to the creation of a "crisis in the...

The Indian Music Debate and "American" Music in the Progressive Era

01 October 1997 A little over a hundred years ago, composers and music critics in the United States launched a debate about the viability of an idiomatically American music and whether its roots could be found in folk music. One of the roots under discussion was music...

Learning from Music Students in Changing Cultural Contexts

31 August 1995 appreciation or performance to beginners, may have more opportunities to learn from students in more ways. authors: William Austin author_ids: 1113 authors: William Austin author_ids: 1113

The Contemporary Performing Ensemble

01 October 1968 Within the last decade, a new phenomenon has come to prominence in American universities and colleges: the chamber ensemble, usually of professional quality, dedicated to the performance of contemporary music. Although the number of such ensembles is...

Wilfred C. Bain: A Reminiscence In Memoriam

01 October 1998 Wilfred C. Bain: A Reminiscence In Memoriam Written by Ennis Williams Symposium Volume 38 Wilfred Bain died in Bloomington, Indiana, March 7, 1997. It is no exaggeration to say that he was the most influential music administrator in higher education in...

Order and Freedom: The Composer's Dilemma

01 October 1984 central to this situation was seriously addressed by Wolfgang Fortner, a German composer and teacher, born in 1907. William Austin tells that Fortner came to the conclusion [ca. 1960] that in music, since the disruption of the 19th-century faith in...

Poking the Pillars: A Preliminary Evaluation of Integration, Diversity, and Creativity

01 January 2016 An earlier version of this article was presented as part of the special session, "Integration, Diversity, and Creativity: Reflections on the 'Manifesto' from The College Music Society," at the Society for Music Theory annual meeting, St. Louis, October...

Integration, Diversity, and Creativity in Current Music Theory Pedagogy Research

01 January 2016 The Manifesto presents a number of claims about the current teaching practices of music theory and aural skills faculty across the country. In pursuit of a greater understanding of the current pedagogical practices in music theory as reflected by...

Expanding Frames of Reference: Teaching the History of Electro-Acoustic Music

01 October 2006 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...

“Experience is an Identity”: The Collegiate Marching Band and Expressions of Communal Identity

15 November 2022 Abstract The communities formed in higher education institutions often view marching bands as an essential representation of communal identity. Marching bands are able to project this communal identity through musical and visual performance practices...

Questioning as an Analytical Tool: Viewing the Score through the Eyes of the Composer

01 March 2022 Abstract Always the beautiful answer Who asks a more beautiful question.1Warren Berger, preface to A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas (New York: Bloomsbury, 2014). -E.E. Cummings The relationship between...

The Core Commitment in Theory and Literature for Tomorrow's Musician

01 October 1970 When we speak of the responsibilities of the music theory and music literature programs in a college or university curriculum, we are concerned with singular parts of a greater educational process. All reputable educational processes have networks of...

Microcomputer-Based Teaching—Computer-Assisted Instruction in Music Comes of Age

01 October 1981 It is the author's perception that there has always been a certain eagerness among musicians to experiment with technology. The converse also holds true, as technologists historically have been intrigued with the production and modification of sound....

Paul Hindemith's Philosophy of Music and the Role of [i]The Four Temperaments[/i]

01 October 2011 Paul Hindemith formulated his philosophy of music upon two "basic and unalterable musical values," the one, Augustinian, the other, Boethian. He defined the latter as the "power of music, its ethos . . . brought into action upon our mind"; the former,...

The Decline of Serialism and the New Romanticism: Control and Chance in the New Music

01 October 1979 The wisest thing to do is to open one's ears immediately and hear a sound suddenly before one's thinking has a chance to turn it into something logical, abstract, or symbolical.1 The mention of the word "romanticism" has, for the greater portion of our...

Collegiate School of Music Online Wellness Education Resources: A Content Analysis

01 March 2022 Abstract College and university music students and faculty are faced with an overwhelming amount of information that can help or hinder their personal wellness. The purpose of this qualitative content analysis was to examine wellness resources for...