Assuming william is required, and austin is required, the following 33 results were found.
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The First Movement of Beethoven's Opus 132 and the Classical Style
The First Movement of Beethoven's Opus 132 and the Classical Style* The works of Beethoven's last period, the years 1813-27 broadly defined, have come to occupy a special place in the history of Western music. They are thought to contain some of the...
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As issues of multiculturalism and globalism have recently become increasingly important in classrooms and in academic circles, media industries have responded by producing a plethora of sources on music and culture. While the abundance of materials has...
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Josef Suk's Non-Obstinate Ostinato Movements: A Study of Harmony and Style
Seldom does a composer parody his or her own style, and even more rarely does that composer acknowledge doing so. Yet the Czech composer Josef Suk does precisely this in a short piano lullaby entitled "Self-Parody on a Street Song" (1912). In this...
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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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It is surprising how the meaning of a term can shift over time. As a concept achieves acceptance and is subjected to broader application, it may outgrow its original appellation and acquire a new one. Alternatively, the original name might be retained...
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Performance Manuscripts from the Thirteenth Century?
Motets were one of the most important polyphonic art forms of the thirteenth century. Appropriate pieces were performed both in church and at court—as service music in the former and as chamber music in the latter.1 Several collections are extant that...
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As music educators we recognize the importance of having a finely developed aesthetic sense. We understand what music means to us and the reason for its value, both to children and adults, and therefore to the school curriculum. Throughout the history...
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On Translating Schoenberg's Harmonielehre
It is a truism often ignored that the world's thinkers, its philosophers and scientists, its literary artists, its statesmen, its holy scriptures, have all wielded their power abroad and over centuries, for good and for ill, through the minds of...
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The "Indian" Operas of Charles Wakefield Cadman
Charles Wakefield Cadman is best known today for his popular-style ballads which achieved a remarkable commercial success in the early decades of the twentieth century. What is less well known is that Cadman considered his primary talent to be in the...
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"Trollopiana"—David Claypoole Johnston Counters Frances Trollope's Views on American Music
The publication of Frances Trollope's Domestic Manners of the Americans (London, 1832) provoked a storm of angry reactions in the United States. Journalists, artists, and popular-music composers alike denounced her criticisms of American life and...
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SYMPOSIUM: Music Appreciation What do we really mean by "Music Appreciation"? Can it be taught? If so, what are some of the ways in which successful college music teachers have handled this subject? SYMPOSIUM has invited four distinguished teachers of...
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Introduction The year 1889 marked the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution and the nation celebrated with the Paris Exposition Universelle, an extraordinary World's Fair. The importance of the event was emphasized by the construction of the...
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The Crystallization of the New, New Music at UCSD
1. Ever-New California In 1966 work began on widening the road leading from a sleepy San Diego beach community, La Jolla Shores, up to the area where an infant university, the University of California San Diego (UCSD), was quickly developing. The road...
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