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Volume 55

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In this Issue
Articles (12)
Reviews (11)
Forum Essays (7)

Articles

  • Author-Supplied Metadata for Music Composition Dissertations in ProQuest
    Rebecca Belford
    PDF | https://doi.org/10.18177/sym.2015.55.sr.10890
  • What They Didn’t Teach Me in My Undergraduate Degree: An Exploratory Study of Graduate Student Musicians’ Expressed Opinions of Career Development Opportunities
    Jennifer Slaughter & D. Gregory Springer
    PDF | https://doi.org/10.18177/sym.2015.55.sr.10889
  • Extensions to the Pedagogical Canon: Expanding Perspectives on William Grant Still and the Teaching Applications as Realized in the Seven Traceries
    Horace J. Maxile, Jr.
    PDF | https://doi.org/10.18177/sym.2015.55.sr.10881
  • Cultural Influences of Organ Music Composed by African American Women
    Carol Ritter
    PDF | https://doi.org/10.18177/sym.2015.55.sr.10872
  • Redefining Music Appreciation: Exploring the Power of Music
    Deborah L. Pierce
    PDF | https://doi.org/10.18177/sym.2015.55.sr.10871
  • The Ninth Semester: Preparing Undergraduates to Function as Professional Musicians in the 21st Century
    Pamela D. Pike
    PDF | https://doi.org/10.18177/sym.2015.55.sr.10852
  • Music and World Events Since 1945: A Graduate Seminar
    Edward G. Niedermaier
    PDF | https://doi.org/10.18177/sym.2015.55.itm.10865
  • Perceived Importance of Technology Skills and Conceptual Understandings for Pre-service, Early- and Late-Career Music Teachers
    Jay Dorfman
    PDF | https://doi.org/10.18177/sym.2015.55.itm.10861
  • Creating Immersive Listening Experiences with Binaural Recording Techniques
    Shane Hoose
    PDF | https://doi.org/10.18177/sym.2015.55.mbi.10863
  • Olivier Messiaen’s Vingt Regards sur l’enfant-Jésus
    Cole Burger
  • Concerto, Op. 45, by Eugene Goossens
    Heather Baldwin Killmeyer
    https://doi.org/10.18177/sym.2015.55.apa.10855
  • Sonata for Clarinet, by John Cage
    Christopher Nichols
    https://doi.org/10.18177/sym.2015.55.apa.10849

Reviews

  • American Composers: Alec Wilder, by Philip Lambert
    David Demsey
    PDF | https://doi.org/10.18177/sym.2015.55.rev.10886
  • Confronting the Dilemmas of Higher Music Education: Is There a Will to Change?
    David Myers
    PDF | https://doi.org/10.18177/sym.2015.55.rev.10880
  • Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination, by William Cheng
    Elizabeth Medina-Gray
    PDF | https://doi.org/10.18177/sym.2015.55.rev.10879
  • Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries and Anthology for Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, by Joseph Auner
    S. Andrew Granade
    PDF | https://doi.org/10.18177/sym.2015.55.rev.10874
  • Jazz, 2nd Edition by Scott DeVeaux and Gary Giddins
    Matthew Shevitz
    PDF | https://doi.org/10.18177/sym.2015.55.rev.10868
  • Keith Jarrett’s The Köln Concert, by Peter Elsdon and Interaction, Improvisation, and Interplay in Jazz, by Robert Hodson
    John J. Mortensen
    PDF | https://doi.org/10.18177/sym.2015.55.rev.10867
  • Assets and Liabilities: The Usage, Preservation, and Instruction of the Singing Voice–and Successes in the Applied Studio
    Justin Vickers
    PDF | https://doi.org/10.18177/sym.2015.55.rev.10862
  • Music in the Eighteenth Century and Anthology for Music in the Eighteenth Century, by John Rice
    Martin Nedbal
    PDF | https://doi.org/10.18177/sym.2015.55.rev.10860
  • Sight Singing Complete, 8th. ed by Maureen Carr and Aural Skills in Context: A Comprehensive Approach to Sight Singing, Ear Training, Keyboard Harmony, and Improvisation by Evan Jones
    John Check
    PDF | https://doi.org/10.18177/sym.2015.55.rev.10857
  • Death in Winterreise: Musico-Poetic Associations in Schubert's Song Cycle by Lauri Suurpää
    H. Conor Angell
    PDF | https://doi.org/10.18177/sym.2015.55.rev.10854
  • The Kindergarten Approach to Arranging Music: Using Technology to Stimulate Creativity
    Brendan McConville
    PDF | https://doi.org/10.18177/sym.2015.55.itm.10875

Forum Essays

  • Transforming Music Study from Its Foundations: A Manifesto for Progressive Change in the Undergraduate Preparation of Music Majors
    Task Force on the Undergraduate Music Major
    PDF | https://doi.org/10.18177/sym.2016.56.fr.11118
  • CMS Forums Monthly Discussion- October: Institutional Developments Since the 2008 Economic Recession
    Matthew Shevitz
    PDF | https://doi.org/10.18177/sym.2015.55.fr.10983
  • Paideia con Salsa: Charles Keil, Groovology, and the Undergraduate Music Curriculum
    Roger Mantie & Lee Higgins
    PDF | https://doi.org/10.18177/sym.2015.55.fr.10885
  • The Baby and The Bathwater
    David A. Williams
    PDF | https://doi.org/10.18177/sym.2015.55.fr.10883
  • A Commentary on the Document - Transforming Music Study from its Foundations: A Manifesto for Progressive Change in the Undergraduate Preparation of Music Majors
    Fred J. Rees
    PDF | https://doi.org/10.18177/sym.2016.56.fr.11118
  • On the Debate over Whether “Prepared Piano” was the Creation of John Cage
    Liang Deng
    PDF | https://doi.org/10.18177/sym.2015.55.fr.10864
  • Recommended Course Additions to the Higher Education Music Curriculum
    Michael Drapkin
    PDF | https://doi.org/10.18177/sym.2015.55.fr.10859
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