Emergent Dissonance and the Resolution of a Paradox

01 October 1996 Our explanations of music over the centuries have not lacked for their perplexities, their mysteries and even contradictions. One of the most persistent anomalies of our history has managed to embody all three: the conceptual duplicity surrounding the...

[i]Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War[/i] by Carol J. Oja

04 May 2016 The Great White Way: Race and the Broadway Musical (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2014), 4. authors: William Everett author_ids: 220 authors: William Everett author_ids: 220

Vaughan Williams Studies, edited by Alain Frogley

01 October 1998 framework for the understanding of English musical life during the first half of the twentieth century. authors: William Everett author_ids: 220 authors: William Everett author_ids: 220

Other New Titles: Dictionaries, Film Music Guides, and Multi-Author Collections

01 October 2001 to the general reader to those that require a strong background in analytical and theoretical constructs. authors: William Everett author_ids: 220 authors: William Everett author_ids: 220

[i]Idea[/i] and Analysis: Aspects of Unification in Musical Explanation

01 October 1990 Idea and Analysis: Aspects of Unification in Musical Explanation1 I myself consider the totality of a piece as the idea: the idea which its creator wanted to present. (Arnold Schoenberg, "New Music, Outmoded Music, Style and Idea (1946)," Style and...

The Music-Driven Syllabus: Using Music Notation and Content to Engage Students with the Syllabus

15 November 2022 seek ways to make the information both available and obvious. For example, in a discussion of music history syllabi, William Everett advocated for employing bullet points to organize information (Everett 2012, 10). Students respond better to syllabi...

Voice Leading and Harmony as Expressive Devices in the Early Music of the Beatles: She Loves You

01 October 1993 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...

Introducing Musical Meaning through Popular Music

20 September 2018 Abstract When analyzing challenging texted art music, all too often the act of labeling a concept (for example, “common-tone modulation”) can mislead students into thinking that the label is the end of the story. Several factors, such as difficulty in...

The Music of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition

01 October 1991 The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, or St. Louis World's Fair, as it has come to be known, took place in St. Louis, Missouri, from April 30 to December 1, 1904. The musical program of the fair was carefully planned and implemented, and was designed to...

The Ins and Outs of Teaching Composition: 1957-2007

01 October 2009 Thinking about the ins and outs of the teaching of composition during the past fifty years meant continuing a lively internal and external dialogue: What do composers need to know, and when do they need to know it? And, given the rock of the pop...

The Fairbank Collection

01 October 1976 The Newberry Library, Chicago, contains a distinguished music collection, rare book, manuscript, and print holdings, and archives relevant both to the United States (and its Indian populations) and to the city of Chicago. Thus it is understandable that...

From Poem to Performance: Brahms's "Edward" Ballade, Op. 10, No. 1

01 October 2008 A performer may develop an interpretation of a piece of music using a number of tools, including analyzing the structure, working out physical motions, following intuitions, and listening to other performances. The process of translating printed notes...

Music Degrees and Career Options: A Hot Topic

29 February 2004 rather large group of CMS members in attendance. The chapter presidents include Great Lakes James Perone; Great Plains William Everett; Mid-Atlantic Jonathan D. Green; Northeast Diane Follet; Pacific Central Mark Alburger; Pacific Northwest Barry...

Past Editors

10 May 2013 through 34, 1990 - 1994 James Parakilas Volumes 35 through 40, 1995 - 2000 Ann Sears Volume 41 through 46, 2001 - 2006 William Everett Volume 48, 2008 Janna Saslaw Forums Volumes 31 through 33, 1991 - 1993 Douglass Seaton Volumes 34 through 37, 1994 -...