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Foundational Rhythms For Drum Circles, Robert J. Damm
Foundational Rhythms For Drum Circles, Robert J. Damm
College of Education Publications and Scholarship
Many drum circle facilitators use foundational rhythms to start a jam, establish a groove, and provide a structure within which other participants can improvise in a relatively freestyle manner. Twenty drum circle facilitators shared a sampling of foundational patterns drawn from universal drum rhythms, culturally specific drum styles, and speech rhythms.
Exploring Meter In A Drum Circle, Robert J. Damm
Exploring Meter In A Drum Circle, Robert J. Damm
College of Education Publications and Scholarship
A series of jams based on different meters, starting with ¼ meter and sequentially adding a beat up to 9/4 meter (or beyond).
“Blaspheming Beethoven?”: The Altered Bach Motive In Vaughan Williams’S Fourth Symphony, Ryan M. Ross
“Blaspheming Beethoven?”: The Altered Bach Motive In Vaughan Williams’S Fourth Symphony, Ryan M. Ross
College of Education Publications and Scholarship
Vaughan Williams’s Fourth Symphony (1934) has elicited much discussion regarding its aesthetic nature and sources of inspiration. Early critics associated the work’s dissonances with a concession to continental European musical modernism, or with a depiction of the political tensions of 1930s Europe. More recent commentaries have noted its references to Beethoven, one of which the composer admitted to in print. These commentators have argued either that these references constitute a continuation of the Beethovenian tradition in the twentieth century, or that they present a critique of the German composer. This essay adds a new argument in favor of the latter …