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The Philosophy Of Music, Andrew Kania
The Philosophy Of Music, Andrew Kania
Andrew Kania
Philosophy of music is the study of fundamental questions about the nature of music and our experience of it. Like any ‘philosophy of X’, it presupposes a knowledge of its target area of study. However, unlike philosophy of science, say, the target of philosophy of music is a practice most people have a significant background in, merely as a result of being members of a musical culture. Music plays a central role in many people's lives. Thus, as with the central questions of metaphysics and epistemology, not only can most people quickly grasp the philosophical questions music raises, they tend …
A Brief History Of Akron's Tuesday Musical, Thomas Bacher
A Brief History Of Akron's Tuesday Musical, Thomas Bacher
Thomas Bacher
The Tuesday Musical Club was founded in 1887 by thirteen young Akron women who had an overwhelming desire to share their love of music. With further support of Gertrude Penfield Seiberling, the wife of industrialist Frank Seiberling, the organization grew like many other musical organizations across the country. Unlike similar clubs, the Akron-based entity continued to expand and is one of a very few that have survived.Among the artists who have appeared as a part of the rich history of Akron's Tuesday Musical Organization are Vladimir Horowitz, Artur Rubinstein, Yehudi Menuhin, Jascha Heifetz, Glenn Gould, Van Cliburn, Isaac Stern, Luciano …
Beyond Exile: The Ramayana As A Living Narrative Among Indo-Fijians In Fiji And New Zealand, Kevin Miller
Beyond Exile: The Ramayana As A Living Narrative Among Indo-Fijians In Fiji And New Zealand, Kevin Miller
Kevin C. Miller
Drawing on the themes of collective memory, cultural ideologies, and narrative constructions, this chapter proposes to examine the narrative of the Ramayana epic, its exegesis through performance, and its continued relevance to identity formation among Indo-Fijian Hindus both within Fiji and its Pacific Rim diaspora. Based on the recasting of the “twice-migrated” Indo-Fijian as the “twice-banished” by certain observers, we might expect the meaning of the Ramayana in the lives of Indo-Fijian Hindus in New Zealand to shift towards the theme of Rama’s exile, just as it did for the indentured laborers who made the original journey to Fiji. Nevertheless, …
Spring Awakening, H. William Rice
Spring Awakening, H. William Rice
H. William Rice
A personal narrative is presented in which the author reflects on his experience taking a course on music history while in college and commenting on how the professor's use of the composition "Rite of Spring" by Igor Stravinsky taught him how to listen to music.
Nontextual Searching, Susannah Cleveland
Nontextual Searching, Susannah Cleveland
Susannah Cleveland
In this article the author discusses aspects of nontextual searching for library patrons who don't know the name of a musical piece or movement. She discusses the variety of reasons why traditional library catalogs can't account for musical content, such as melody, chords, and rhythm, the use of thematic catalogs, which indexes a composer's works and includes the first few bars of each piece or movement, and mobile device applications, such as SoundHound.
Categories And “Classical” Music – A Response To “Convergenre: Music In The Age Of Adaptation.”, Jason Neal
Categories And “Classical” Music – A Response To “Convergenre: Music In The Age Of Adaptation.”, Jason Neal
Jason R. Neal
No abstract provided.
The Birth Of Kd Lang’S Hallelujah Out Of The ‘Spirit Of Music’: Performing Desire And ‘Recording Consciousness’ On Facebook And Youtube, Babette Babich
The Birth Of Kd Lang’S Hallelujah Out Of The ‘Spirit Of Music’: Performing Desire And ‘Recording Consciousness’ On Facebook And Youtube, Babette Babich
Babette Babich
The Hallelujah Effect on the Internet The initial focus of this essay, apart from important preliminary references to Leonard Cohen is on kd lang, not as composer (although she is one) but musical performer and not as guitarist (although she is one) but as a singer and although her live performances have to make all the difference, very specifically, for the sake of any analysis, specifically as her singing is available in video format on YouTube. Of course there are many readings of kd lang and popular music, and of course most of them focus on the way she dresses, …
Postmodern Musicology, Babette Babich
Postmodern Musicology, Babette Babich
Babette Babich
The discipline of musicology is a rather specificially 20th century institution growing out of a disparate range of 19th century studies of music theory, history, composition, etc. The OED edition extant at the time of the writing of this article dates the term musicology itself to 1909 or later. Although there are indeed practitioners throughout the world, most theorists are Anglo-American, with echoes in the French tradition of musicologie and German Musikwissenschaft. As a still-modern project, postmodern musicology derives from a predominantly Austro-German generation of scholars who translated an originally European tradition of analysis (Heinrich Schenker and -- in …
Choreographing (Against) Coup Culture: Reconciliation And Cross-Cultural Performance In The Fiji Islands, Kevin Miller
Choreographing (Against) Coup Culture: Reconciliation And Cross-Cultural Performance In The Fiji Islands, Kevin Miller
Kevin C. Miller
No abstract provided.
The Effects Of Harmonic Accompaniment On The Top Improvisations Of Students In First Through Sixth Grade, Denise Guilbault-Langworthy
The Effects Of Harmonic Accompaniment On The Top Improvisations Of Students In First Through Sixth Grade, Denise Guilbault-Langworthy
Denise Guilbault-Langworthy
The purpose of this research was to examine the effects of harmonic accompaniment on the tonal improvisations of elementary school students. Specifically, this study was designed to (a) determine if the addition of a root melody accompaniment to song instruction affects the implied harmonic changes and harmonic rhythm in the tonal improvisations of students in first through sixth grade and (b) determine whether age affects the tonal improvisation scores of students in first through sixth grade. Results indicated that students who received song instruction with root melody accompaniment received significantly higher tonal improvisation rating scores than those students who did …
Precedent Or Preference? Music Recommender Systems And The Challenge Of Genre, Jason Neal
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
Beyond Genre: Rethinking Music Organization And Recommendation, Jason Neal
Jason R. Neal
No abstract provided.
Sugarloaf Seminar (1985) - Part 13, Edwin Gordon
Sugarloaf Seminar (1985) - Part 13, Edwin Gordon
Edwin E. Gordon
No abstract provided.
Sugarloaf Seminar (1985) - Part 5, Edwin Gordon
Sugarloaf Seminar (1985) - Part 6, Edwin Gordon
Sugarloaf Seminar (1985) - Part 17, Edwin Gordon
Sugarloaf Seminar (1985) - Part 17, Edwin Gordon
Edwin E. Gordon
No abstract provided.
Sugarloaf Seminar (1985) - Part 4, Edwin Gordon
Sugarloaf Seminar (1985) - Part 15, Edwin Gordon
Sugarloaf Seminar (1985) - Part 15, Edwin Gordon
Edwin E. Gordon
No abstract provided.
Sugarloaf Seminar (1985) - Part 7, Edwin Gordon
Sugarloaf Seminar (1985) - Part 10, Edwin Gordon
Sugarloaf Seminar (1985) - Part 10, Edwin Gordon
Edwin E. Gordon
No abstract provided.
Sugarloaf Seminar (1985) - Part 8, Edwin Gordon
Sugarloaf Seminar (1985) - Part 14, Edwin Gordon
Sugarloaf Seminar (1985) - Part 14, Edwin Gordon
Edwin E. Gordon
No abstract provided.
Keynote Address - 3rd International Conference On Music Learning Theory, Edwin Gordon
Keynote Address - 3rd International Conference On Music Learning Theory, Edwin Gordon
Edwin E. Gordon
No abstract provided.
Roots Of Music Learning Theory And Audiation, Edwin Gordon
Roots Of Music Learning Theory And Audiation, Edwin Gordon
Edwin E. Gordon
No abstract provided.
Sugarloaf Seminar (1985) - Part 1, Edwin Gordon
Emusicquest: The Music-In-Print Series. Compiled By Donald Reese, Lisa Philpott
Emusicquest: The Music-In-Print Series. Compiled By Donald Reese, Lisa Philpott
Lisa Rae Philpott
No abstract provided.
“Can Con” On The Www, Keith Chapman, Lisa Philpott
“Can Con” On The Www, Keith Chapman, Lisa Philpott
Lisa Rae Philpott
No abstract provided.
Cancon On The Web: A Survey Of Freely-Available Musical Canadiana, Lisa Philpott
Cancon On The Web: A Survey Of Freely-Available Musical Canadiana, Lisa Philpott
Lisa Rae Philpott
No abstract provided.
Geheimnisvolle Musik, Jason Neal
Geheimnisvolle Musik, Jason Neal
Jason R. Neal
Looking beyond tradtional genre categorizations, this blog ties together strands of similarities among diverse types of music. As we enter the second decade of the 21st Century, people seem more open to different types of music than in previous times. Or, they at least admit to it more readily. Furthermore, many musicians and composers have engaged with genres beyond the ones with which they are most commonly identified. Still, defining one’s tastes by genre remains firmly established for any number of reasons. If nothing else, it can provide shorthand for identifying one’s status, or it can aid with marketing products …
Review: Women And Music In America Since 1900: An Encyclopedia, Margaret Ericson
Review: Women And Music In America Since 1900: An Encyclopedia, Margaret Ericson
Margaret D. Ericson
Margaret Ericson's review of: Women and Music in America Since 1900: An Encyclopedia. Edited by Kristine H. Burns. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. 2 vols. [xxx, 747 p. ISBN 1-57356-267-X (set). $150; ISBN 1-57356-308-0 (v.1). $74.95; ISBN 1-57356-309-9 (v.2). $74.95.]