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Call And Response
Call And Response
ecology, music, movement, geology, ecomusicology, The publisher's version of record is availible at https://doi.org/10.5406/ethnomusicology.64.2.0301
Case Against Teaching Set Classes to Undergraduates
Case Against Teaching Set Classes to Undergraduates
Keywords: Music theory, Pedagogy, Atonality, Set class, Publication Note: Published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Complete Works For Violoncello And Piano
Complete Works For Violoncello And Piano
Publication Note: The publisher’s version of record is available at https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479409817000660
Examination of Financial Expenditures in American Tertiary Music Schools, 2004-2018
Examination of Financial Expenditures in American Tertiary Music Schools, 2004-2018
Keywords: financial expenditures, music school, Preferred Citation: Thrasher, Michael and Dawn Iwamasa. “An Analysis of Instructional Expenditures in American Tertiary Music Schools, 2004-2018.” Journal of Performing Arts Leadership in Higher Education 9 (Fall 2018): 4-20.
Joseph Addison White, Jr.
Joseph Addison White, Jr.
Joseph Addison White, Jr. had deep roots in the state of North Carolina, most likely discovered his passion for music growing up in Greensboro, and left home to study music at the University of Michigan and the Curtis Institute of Music. Like many men of his generation his career path was rerouted by World War II, and his service in that war would further shape the man he would become. After coming home and getting back on his music career track he ended up in Tallahassee, Florida. White spent the next 49 years of his life there raising a family, inspiring future musicians, and serving the institution of which he was so proud. In that time he inspired several generations of musicians to strive to always be better than they were., Joseph White, Joe White, Florida State University, college teaching, music administration
Moravian Soundscapes
Moravian Soundscapes
Preferred Citation: Eyerly, S. (in press). Moravian Soundscapes: A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early Pennsylvania. Manuscript in press. Indiana University Press. Series: Music, Nature, Place. Indiana University Press.
Owen F. Sellers
Owen F. Sellers
From his initial hiring, at the age of 25, in the Fall of 1931 by the Florida State College for Women (FSCW) to his retirement in the Spring of 1973 from the Florida State University (FSU), Owen Sellers played a variety of roles in the education of young musicians who came to study in Tallahassee, Florida. As a cellist, Sellers had enjoyed a modest career playing and teaching primarily in his home state of Ohio. He was hired at FSCW to teach cello and music theory. Within his first 10 years as a faculty member, he finished a bachelor’s degree he had started at the University of Cincinnati Conservatory and completed a master’s degree at the University of Rochester Eastman School of Music. In that first decade of employment, he was also given his first administrative tasks by Dean Ella Scoble Opperman. By the time Sellers retired, he was one of two assistant deans (focused on academic affairs, recruiting, & advising), and had developed a reputation in the region as a cellist specializing in orchestral and chamber music. He served under three deans, taught numerous music students (cello, music theory, & chamber music literature), started the first band at FSCW, and worked to develop a variety of graduate programs in music. Sellers also developed a professional relationship with cellist Pablo Casals that lasted more than 20 years. His hobbies included travel and aviation; he became a licensed pilot as well as a flight instructor for the United States Army. Many students remember him as a quiet, polite man who also had a sense of humor and a way of making people feel comfortable around him. Unlike some of the more colorful characters who have taught music at FSU over the years, stories about Owen Sellers seem to have primarily two themes. He was a well-respected musician, and a nice human being. The purpose of this paper is to document the life and career of a man who made important contributions to the development of a major school of music over 4 decades, was recognized for his service and accomplishments by having the college amphitheater named in his honor upon his death, but whose deeds are largely lost to history., Owen Sellers, Florida State University, college teaching, Florida State College for Women, school of music
Popular Music as a Socializing Agent for an Adolescent Boy with ASD
Popular Music as a Socializing Agent for an Adolescent Boy with ASD
This paper describes two case studies and follow-up, taking place over a three-year period, with an adolescent male diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). At the time of the first case study the 13-year-old subject was mainstreamed in a traditional middle school 7th grade setting. The subject was given an MP3 player and told that he could keep it if he asked five boys and five girls his age to tell him what their favorite song was and why they liked it. When writing about the songs, and why peers liked them, the subject identified both musical and social aspects of the songs he felt made them attractive to peers and him. In the second case study the boy, now 15 year-of-age, was given a copy of a novel that included a character with autistic characteristics (but not identified as such in the book). The subject was asked to read the book and pay particular attention to the relationships between the characters. After independently identifying the “autistic” character (prior to finishing the book) he was told that his next task was to create a “Soundtrack” by finding five songs that he thought might improve the characters’ relationship. The subject was asked to write a short paragraph for each song. In the follow-up the subject, aged 16, was given an assignment by his high school literature class teacher to be accomplished “over the summer” for his fall literature class. The writing prompt assigned by the sophomore-year literature teacher was “This I Believe”. The resulting essay was subtitled “There Really Are Hidden Messages in Music”. In the essay the subject refers to his use of popular music to help analyze “life” and “literature” as his “secret weapon”., Popular music, Socialization, ASD, Autism