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Digital Media Reviews: Themefinder [Review], Anne Shelley

Anne Shelley

Themefinder is a website that allows users to search for short musical incipits, or themes.

Music And Dance Reference [Review], Anne Shelley

Anne Shelley

The Music & Dance Reference website is a compilation of several different features that are meant to accommodate needs of researchers in the performing arts.

Digital Media Reviews: Pandora [Review], Anne Shelley

Anne Shelley

Pandora is one of the largest providers of Internet radio. Powered by the massive Music Genome Project, Pandora facilitates exploration of hundreds of composers, singer–songwriters, and musical artists that cover the spectrum from renowned to very obscure.

American Choral Music: 1870-1923 [Review], Anne Shelley

Anne Shelley

The digital collection American Choral Music: 1870 – 1923 is the product of a 2007 agreement between the Library of Congress (LOC) and the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) to digitize and disseminate American choral music in the public domain. The collection seeks to represent an accurate and diverse sampling of American choral writing in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Ethnographic Video For Instruction And Analysis (Evia) Digital Archive [Review], Anne Shelley

Anne Shelley

The Ethnographic Video for Instruction and Analysis Digital Archive Project (EVIA) is an online archive of worldwide collections of ethnographic field recordings that offers added-value features for the discovery, description, and analysis of video.

A Critical Historical Analysis Of The Public Performance Right, Louis J. D'Alton

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

The legislation of a public performance right in musical works in the late 19th created the opportunity for the formation of an initial copyright collective within the Anglo-American legal tradition. The subsequent widespread expansion of Performing Rights organizations marked an early successful example of trans-national capital. Despite the widespread expansion and subsequent acceptance of copyright collectives since their inception, there has been very little scholarship in this area generally and almost none that attempt to critically pursue the issue beyond simple economic or legal analysis.

This thesis traces the historical establishment and expansion of the public performance right in musical …

Tune Up Your Instruction: Transform Discipline-Based Instruction Using Active Engagement, Andi Beckendorf

LOEX Conference Proceedings 2010

Making the transition from lecture-based instruction delivery to an active, learner-centered model provides an excellent opportunity to blend creative ideas and new teaching strategies. Music students at Luther College are introduced to research in the discipline through learner-centered activities. You will experience elements of the Cephalonian method - music, color, and active engagement - as you participate in a component of the question-card sequence of the lesson plan. The presenter will discuss how teaching style, learning styles and pedagogy have played a role in reimagining the sessions as a place for active engagement. In looking at a selection of learning …

Precedent Or Preference? Music Recommender Systems And The Challenge Of Genre, Jason Neal

Jason R. Neal

With the advent of user-generated content and the capabilities of current information and communication technologies, indexing and retrieval tools for music should facilitate discovery that transcends genre boundaries. Nonetheless, they still privilege genre as the primary mode of categorization. Even recommender systems, which utilize other measures to determine similarity, give the appearance of drawing upon genre. By examining the ambiguous boundaries and definitions of genres, the contexts in which indexing and retrieval tools for music have developed, and the roles played by music at individual and societal levels, this paper considers alternative traits that could act as indicators of “similarity.”

Beyond Genre: Rethinking Music Organization And Recommendation, Jason Neal

Jason R. Neal

No abstract provided.