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New Mexico Musician Vol 55 No 2 (Winter 2007)

New Mexico Musician

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Black Expressive Art, Resistant Cultural Politics, And The [Re] Performance Of Patriotism, Deborah Elizabeth Whaley

Trotter Review

During World War I, the Boston editor William Monroe Trotter described black American patriotism as a cautious endeavor and America's willingness to participate in the World War while it turned its back on domestic issues as misguided. In an era when freedom bypassed most black women and men within the nation-state of America and in an era of mass lynching in the American South, he proclaimed that black Americans and the U.S. government might refocus their efforts on making the world safer for "Negroes."

Like William Monroe Trotter, the rap group Public Enemy's rap odyssey "Welcome to the Terrordome," from …

New Mexico Musician Vol 55 No 1 (Fall 2007)

New Mexico Musician

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New Mexico Musician Vol 54 No 3

New Mexico Musician

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Intercultural Music Education: The Moral Ethics Of Cultural Educational Exchange, Mary Cummings

International Christian Community of Teacher Educators Journal

It is important when considering a position as a music educator within a non-Western society to examine the political, social and religious influences that are present in music in order to assist in alleviating the tensions and dangers that such an introduction may create within a culture. Once these issues are understood, it is clear to see that a system of intercultural exchange instead of Western globalization would benefit both teacher and student while still maintaining cultural integrity. The advantage of such an approach would break down cultural barriers, preserve the existing culture, and provide a Christian educator with a …

Tempo Magazine 2007

TEMPO

O Come All Ye Faithful -- (pg. 2) -- David Allen Wehr Appointed to Geltz Chair -- (pg. 3) -- Gala Launches Harth Violin Scholarship -- (pg. 5) -- DU Jazz Ensemble Plays Lincoln Center -- (pg. 8) -- Students Make CD Release Party a Success -- (pg. 9)

Keyboard Fingering And Interpretation: A Comparison Of Historical And Modern Approaches, Jeffrey Swinkin

Performance Practice Review

Earlier systems of keyboard fingering exploit the natural differences of finger strength and utilize frequent changes of position in order to facilitate localized (gestural) phrasing and articulation, among other interpretive nuances. The modern system of fingering, by contrast, views the fingers as more homogeneous and aims to keep the hand more stationary out of a concern for purely technical facility and for promoting a longer line. This essay offers numerous examples of historical keyboard fingerings—those by C. P. E Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, and Schenker—in each case discussing the implications the fingering has for phrasing and other aspects of interpretation. It …

Book Review: "Performance On Lute, Guitar And Vihuela: Historical Performance Practice And Interpretation" By Victor Anand Coelho, Daniel Zuluaga

Performance Practice Review

Zuluaga reviews Coelho's 2005 book.

Coelho, Victor Anand, ed. "Performance on Lute, Guitar and Vihuela: Historical Performance Practice and Interpretation." Cambridge University Press, 2005. Cambridge Studies in Performance Practice, no. 6. ISBN 0-521-10943-5.

Book Review: "Performance Practice: A Dictionary-Guide For Musicians." By Roland Jackson, Peter Holman

Performance Practice Review

Peter Holman discusses and critiques Roland Jackson's Dictionary-Guide to performance-practice-related terms.

Book Review: "Bach's Solo Violin Works: A Performer's Guide" By Jaap Schröder, Peter Walls

Performance Practice Review

Peter Walls discusses and critiques Jaap Schröder's guide on how to perform Johann Sebastian Bach's works for solo violin.

Book Review: "Studies In The Printing, Publishing And Performance Of Music In The 16th Century." By Stanley Boorman, Maureen Buja

Performance Practice Review

Buja reviews Boorman's 2005 book.

Boorman, Stanley. Studies in the Printing, Publishing and Performance of Music in the 16th Century. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Variorium Collected Studies Series, C815. ISBN 0-86078-970-5.

Book Reviews: "Musical Instruments: History, Technology, And Performance Of Instruments Of Western Music." By Murray Campbell, Clive Greated And Arnold Myers, And "From Renaissance To Baroque: Change In Instruments And Instrumental Music In The Seventeenth Century: Proceedings Of The National Early Music Association Conference Held, In Association With The Department Of Music, University Of York And The York Early Music Festival, At The University College Of Ripon And York St Johan, York, 2-4 July 1999." By Jonathan Wainwright And Peter Holman., Rudolf Rasch

Performance Practice Review

Rasch reviews two books on musical instruments.

Campbell, Murray, Clive Greated, and Arnold Myers. "Musical Instruments: History, Technology, and Performance of Instruments of Western Music." Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-19-816504-8.

Wainwright, Jonathan, Peter Holman, eds. "From Renaissance to Baroque: Change in Instruments and Instrumental Music in the Seventeenth Century. Proceedings of the National Early Music Association Conference held, in association with the Department of Music, University of York and the York Early Music Festival, at the University College of Ripon and York St Johan, York, 2-4 July 1999." Aldershot Hampshire: Ashgate, 2005. ISBN 0-7546-0403-9.

Book Review: "Singing In Style: A Guide To Vocal Performance Practices." By Martha Elliott., Margaret Murata

Performance Practice Review

Murata reviews and critiques Martha Elliot's book on singing.

Elliott, Martha. "Singing in Style: A Guide to Vocal Performance Practices." New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006. ISBN 0-300-10932-6.

From The Directors, Linda B. Fairtile, Francesco Izzo

Verdi Forum

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'Si Ridesti [Il Leon Di Castiglia] La Fiamma Sopita': Ricordi's Censored Libretto Of Ernani And Some Vicissitudes Of The Conspiracy Scene, David B. Rosen

Verdi Forum

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The "Introduction" To The Great Operas (1899): A Verdian Manifesto?, Roberta Montemorra Marvin

Verdi Forum

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Notes From The Editor, Bruce Gleason

Research & Issues in Music Education

Further reflecting on RIME’s development, as I write these notes, I am pleased, and maybe surprised that the hazy initiative that began in uncharted waters in 2000 continues to progress and is now publishing its fifth issue. As I tell my graduate students, history is difficult to assess as it is happening, and I think this may be no more evident than in the world of online publishing and instruction. When I do web searches for RIME, I am pleased to find it in many databases and am reminded that being careful about editorial content is paramount, since I have …

Volume 21, Various Authors

Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy

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Five Challenges And Solutions In Online Music Teacher Education, David Hebert

Research & Issues in Music Education

“Nearly 600 graduate students?”1 As remarkable as it may sound, that is the projected student population for the online graduate programs in music education at Boston University School of Music by the end of 2007. With the rapid proliferation of online courses among mainstream universities in recent years, it is likely that more online music education programs will continue to emerge in the near future, which begs the question of what effects this new development will have on the profession. Can online education truly be of the same quality as a traditional face-to-face program? How is it possible to effectively …

The Effect Of Band Director Leadership Style And Student Leadership Ability On Band Festival Ratings, P. Dru Davison

Research & Issues in Music Education

This study examined the relationship between band director leadership styles and the strength of student leadership within the bands. This study also examined the differences between leadership styles, student leadership strength, and band festival ratings (marching and concert). Subjects (N = 42) were band directors from Texas and Arkansas who participated in marching and concert band festivals. The Leadership Measurement Instrument (LMI) was designed to ascertain the strength of student leadership within the band programs, the type of leadership practiced by the directors (autocratic/facilitative), and the marching and concert festival band scores attained by the participants of this study. The …

What Boys And Girls Learn Through Song: A Content Analysis Of Gender Traits And Sex Bias In Two Choral Classroom Textbooks, Patrick J. Hawkins

Research & Issues in Music Education

In an effort to further the understanding of gender traits or sexual bias that high school-aged choral music students might be exposed to in their curricular materials, two choral textbooks Choral Connections Beginning Level 1 Treble Voices and Choral Connections Beginning Level 1 Tenor-Bass Voices published by Glencoe MacGraw-Hill in 1999 were analyzed using a modified Bem Sex Role Inventory Model. The results found that significantly more songs were about men than were about women. The songs selected for the treble voices were more androgynous, while the secular music presented to the boys was significantly more masculine in the traits: …

The Effects Of Technology-Based Conducting Practice On Skill Achievement In Novice Conductors, Diana Hollinger, Dr. Jill M. Sullivan

Research & Issues in Music Education

The purpose of this study was to compare technology-based practice (Radio Baton and Digital Conducting System) to self-practice (recorded music) on the skill achievement of beginning conductors. Participants (N = 33) were undergraduate music majors—education and performance—from two beginning conducting classes randomly assigned to either the technology-based group or the self-practice group. Subjects worked for three, 15-minute sessions on the following skills: staccato conducting, legato conducting, and steadiness of tempo. The experimental design was a pretest-posttest using two conducting etudes to measure six dependent variables: staccato conducting, staccato presence, staccato steadiness of tempo, legato conducting, legato presence, and legato steadiness …

An Exploration Of Personality Traits In Older Adult Amateur Musicians, Don Coffman

Research & Issues in Music Education

The primary research question for the study was, “Will older adult amateur musicians’ personality profiles reflect the traits found in professional musicians?” Participants (N = 58, ages 52 to 79) recruited from a New Horizons Institute “band camp” for older adult amateur musicians completed a musical background questionnaire and the Cattell (1993) Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, Fifth Edition (16PF) on their own time during the five-day camp. Group scores for all the 16PF primary and global factor scores were within expected ranges for a normal population of adults, although Factor B (Reasoning) was noticeably higher and Factors E (Dominance), F …

Review: Best Of The South: New Songs From The South: Musical Stories By Sugar Hill Songwriters, Jack Fisher

Georgia Library Quarterly

Review of the CD "Best of the South: New Songs from the South: Musical Stories by Sugar Hill Songwriters."