In a show of support for music teachers, the League of American Orchestras has issued a call to action for the betterment of K-12 music education in public schools. The League's Statement of Common Cause: Orchestras Support In-School Music Education is consistent with its prior work with MENC on advocacy initiatives. According to League…

Musical theatre is one of the great genres of music, yet very few community theatres use live music to accompany their productions. Sadly, many community theatres that formerly employed pit orchestras are replacing them with electronic music. Some producers would welcome live music, but they worry about the potential cost. There are so many…

Two same/different discrimination tasks were performed by amateur-musician subjects in this functional magnetic resonance imaging study: Melody Discrimination and Harmony Discrimination. Both tasks led to activations not only in classic working memory areas--such as the cingulate gyrus and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex--but in a series of…

This article presents partial results of an ethnographic study about literacy practices among adolescents living near the United States-Mexico border. The students became involved in literacy practices with their friends and family at home. These practices were related to the adolescents' interests in popular culture such as reading magazines or…

Article described the expression of ideas in music and the part that literature played as a motivation for those ideas. (RK)

Anyone who chooses a career as a professional performing artist knows that the management of physical and emotional tension will occupy center stage during at least some phases of his or her professional career. Skills to prevent this anxiety should be taught as a part of professional musicians' training. Tension and anxiety are not synonymous.…

Non-annotated discography that omits single songs from the Broadway shows and arrangements for band, piano, and the like. (CH)

The five-day celebration of black composers at the New York Philharmonic included a panel discussion of black music and three symphonic concerts featuring the premieres of new works by celebrated black composers. (Author/AM)

Discusses issues regarding the choice of many young musicians in England to reject their school music education as irrelevant to, and restrictive on, the music they wish to play; presents the general process of how local production works and what its cultural roots and reference points are. Cites specific references. (JD)

Identifies three successful self-presentational patterns used by black artists to penetrate the music television market. Discusses the historical relationship between minorities and the mass media. (MS)

Discussed is how musicians can get used to playing in equal temperament--the system of tuning in which all 12 tones of the chromatic scale stand equidistant from each other in both a logarithmical and musical sense. (RM)

Richard Wagner was probably the most influential musician of the 19th century. However, his image as an alleged intellectual-spiritual forerunner of national socialism through his music and prose works fosters aversion among critics. Whether Wagner's complicacy of art and ideology has had any lasting consequence on his reputation is discussed. (RM)

Article discussed the large variety of stamps on which are musicians, musical composers and musical instruments. It further considered the how these music motifs offered a splendid opportunity for stamp collectors and named some stamp organizations one might join. (Author/RK)

Author lists exercises that explain the musical meaning of ragtime. (RK)

A biographical sketch of Gottschalk, a pianist and "the first american composer to use the folk idiom and rhythm of this hemisphere in serious composition. (Author/JG)