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...

Approaching Musical Classicism—Understanding Styles and Style Change in Eighteenth-Century Instrumental Music

01 October 1980 Bach's music than the term mannerism. Within the last generation of scholarship two eminent students of the period, William S. Newman and Jens Peter Larsen, have tried to alleviate this confusing situation, although with diametrically opposing...

". . . Our Daily Bread"

01 October 1972 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...

The Function of Dynamics in the Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven: Some Implications for the Performer

01 October 1976 Toch, "The Bases of Form," Chapter X in The Shaping Forces in Music (New York: Criterion Music, 1948), pp. 153-72; William S. Newman, "The Climax of Music," The Music Review XIII (1952), 283-93; George E. Muns, Jr., "Climax in Music" (Ph.D. diss.,...

Preface to a Graduate Course in the History of Music Theory

01 October 1982 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...

A Survey of Recent Publications Relating to Nineteenth-Century Music and Musicians

01 October 1969 Anyone who has taught a course on romantic music deplores the scarcity of suitable texts. Not only is there no outstanding survey of the period, but with few exceptions we cannot even resort to completely reliable studies of particular genres or...

A Vote for Applied Music in the Undergraduate Liberal Arts Music Program

01 October 1964 SYMPOSIUM Performance as Humanistic Study The discussion of this controversial subject was sparked by regulations found in the Constitution and By-Laws of Phi Beta Kappa: Grades earned in applied or professional work shall not be counted in computing...

Transition and Retransition in Mozart's Sonata-Type Movements

01 October 1986 elements of his compositional style, but always within the Classic context of clarity, order, and balance. 1William S. Newman, The Sonata in the Classic Era, 3rd ed. (New York: Norton, 1983), 19-25. Newman examines various definitions of "sonata" given...

Can Music Performance Be A Liberal Study?

01 October 1971 has supplied fuel for one fire or the other, perhaps the driest tinder being the essays of Martin A. Sherman, William S. Newman, Putnam Aldrich, and Klaus Liepmann.3 As a practicing performer with an abiding faith in liberal education and, more...

The First Movement of Beethoven's Opus 132 and the Classical Style

01 October 1987 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...

On Tempo Indications, Based on Beethoven's Music

01 October 1985 in Hermann Beck, "Bemerkungen zu Beethoven's Tempi," Beethoven Jahrbuch II (1955-56), 39. One can also find it in William S. Newman, "Tempo in Beethoven's Instrumental Music," The Piano Quarterly 116 (Winter 1981-82), 26. The author's method of analysis...

Marie-Emmanuelle Bayon, Later Madame Louis, and Music in Late Eighteenth-Century France

01 October 1990 Recent research into the music of the Classic era continues to bring to light the lives and works of an increasing number of important composers and other musicians active in the latter half of the eighteenth century and the early nineteenth century....

Musical Performance as a Humanistic Study

01 October 1964 SYMPOSIUM Performance as Humanistic Study The discussion of this controversial subject was sparked by regulations found in the Constitution and By-Laws of Phi Beta Kappa: Grades earned in applied or professional work shall not be counted in computing...

Fontenelle's Famous Question and Performance Standards of the Day

01 October 2003 Fontenelle, nous savons ce que nous veut une bonne sonate, et sur-tout une symphonie de Haydn ou de Gossec." Cited by William S. Newman, The Sonata in the Baroque Era, 3rd edn. (New York: Norton, 1972), p.353, note. Also disagreeing with Fontenelle is...