Assuming william is required, and j is required, and mitchell is required, the following 27 results were found.
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There is a greater need than pianoforte teachers and singing teachers, and that is a numerous company of writers and talkers who shall teach the people how to listen to music so that it shall not pass through their heads like a vast tonal...
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Union Musicians and the Medal of Honor During the American Civil War
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...
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Preface to a Graduate Course in the History of Music Theory
As a doctoral degree certifies (among other things) to a breadth of knowledge in the field, one requirement for the Ph.D. in music theory should be a scholarly course surveying the history of theory. To decide on this requirement, however, is easier...
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Is It Possible to Sing the Prologue to Orlando di Lasso’s [i]Prophetiae Sibyllarum[/i] in Tune?
Abstract All tuning systems except equal temperament (ET) have small irreconcilable mathematical discrepancies. In particular, just intonation (JI), espoused by Zarlino and other Renaissance theorists as an ideal tuning system, was already known in the...
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The Composer in Academia: Reflections on a Theme of Stravinsky
public concert-hall and the world of the university," to which he adds, "For myself, I have always liked teaching." William J. Mitchell Jon Appleton Milton Babbitt William Bergsma Howard Boatwright Elliott Carter Paul Creston Ingolf Dahl Cecil Effinger...
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Schenkerian Analysis, Metaphor, and Performance
University Press, 1991. Bach, C. P. E., Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments [1753], trans. William J. Mitchell. New York: W. W. Norton, 1949. Berry, Wallace. Musical Structure and Performance. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989....
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Music and Higher Education in the 1970's
William J. Mitchell was chairman of a panel presentation for The College Music Society at the University of Toronto on November 7, 1970 entitled Music and Higher Education in the 1970's. The panelists were Charles Hamm, Mantle Hood, James Haar, Claude...
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J.S. Bach Teaches Us How to Compose: Four Pattern Preludes of the Well-Tempered Clavier
Charles Gounod was not alone in hearing the opening prelude of the Well-Tempered Clavier as a wandering accompaniment in search of a melody—surely, we have all heard performers play it that way. But early eighteenth-century musicians certainly heard...
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1948), p. 218. 6Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments, trans. and ed. by William J. Mitchell (New York: W.W. Norton, 1949), p. 163. 7Thus the term as used here is identical neither to Meyer's concept of the...
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Since the mission of The College Music Society is to act as a forum for the exchange of ideas in the profession, it is quite natural that the pages of Symposium should continue to be open to discussion of the Contemporary Music Project, the philosophy...
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Paul Hindemith's Philosophy of Music and the Role of [i]The Four Temperaments[/i]
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,...
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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...
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Motion in Musical Time and Rhythm
In his Introduction to C.P.E. Bach's Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments, editor and translator William J. Mitchell (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1949) mentions both J.S. Bach's and C.P.E. Bach's rejection of Rameau's theory....
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Music and Advertising in Seventeen Magazine, 1944-1981
Abstract Music had a prominent place in Seventeen from its first issue in September 1944, and music’s importance in the magazine reflects music’s importance in the lives of girls from the 1940s through the present day. Building on previous work by...
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Reflections on the Relationship of Analysis and Performance
Clavier zu spielen (Berlin: 1759-1762). See also Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments, tr. and ed. William J. Mitchell (New York: Norton, 1949). 18Johann David Heinichen, Der General-Bass in der Composition (Freiburg: Christoph...
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What Would Beethoven Google? Primary Sources in the Twenty-First Century Classroom
Abstract Scholars rely on primary sources as the foundation of credible research. Sometimes, however, the incorporation of primary sources as fodder for learning in the undergraduate music classroom is overlooked, and instructors miss the opportunity...
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interest and achievement in music in the elementary grades, a committee under the chairmanship of Professor William J. Mitchell judged the upper high school level as a time when music could be studied as a literature apart from performance. To deepen...
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Composition Before Rameau: Harmony, Figured Bass, and Style in the Baroque
published in a facsimile ed. by Lothar Hoffmann-Erbrecht (Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1976), and in translation by William J. Mitchell (New York: Norton, 1949). 4The Kunst des reinen Satzes, 4 vols. (Berlin and Königsberg, 1776-79) is available in...
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Exploring Cadenzas to Beethoven's Piano Concertos
Philipp Emanuel Bach, Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments (1753-1762), translated and edited by William J. Mitchell (New York: 1949), p. 431. 5Carl Czerny, L'Art d'improviser: mis à la portée des pianistes par Carl Czerny (Paris: circa...
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Graduate Education of the Musician-Teacher
of Toronto on November 7, 1970 entitled Music and Higher Education in the 1970's. Chairman of the panel was William J. Mitchell. The other panelists were Charles Hamm, Mantle Hood, James Haar, Claude V. Palisca, and Neal Zaslaw. Abstracts of the papers...
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