The Jacobs Faculty Bookshelf
This page serves as a listing of publications by Jacobs School of Music faculty. Click on an item to view available purchasing options as well as its availability on the IU Library Catalog.
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Pacifica Quartet , Anthony McGill
Anthony McGill, New York Philharmonic principal clarinet and 2020 Avery Fisher Prize winner, and the multiple Grammy Award-winning Pacifica Quartet present an album illuminating experiences that have shaped America through works by Richard Danielpour, James Lee III, Ben Shirley (all three world-premiere recordings), and Valerie Coleman. McGill describes it as a project driven by the desire to “expand the capacity for art and music to change the world.”
Beyond The Audition Screen by John Tafoya features twenty seven orchestral works currently requested at timpani auditions. The included CD-ROM contains the entire timpani parts in Adobe Acrobat PDF format for further study along with annotated forScore files for the Apple iPad.
Each page includes important items to consider in preparing each orchestral work. These observations are taken directly from John Tafoya's own personal experience with orchestral timpani auditions and his professional experiences in rehearsals and performances with world-renowned conductors.
The reader will also enjoy a variety of musical and technical options presented in this book. Options include: edited dynamics, stickings, timpani mallet recommendations, illustrations, exercises, errata, extra notes, tempos, and an interesting section on timpani maintenance by the owner and manager of the American Drum Manufacturing Company, Marshall E. Light.
William Bolcom's inventive rags are a cornerstone of the modern piano repertoire. This 2017 recording marks Spencer Myer's debut on the Steinway & Sons label. Featuring some of the newest Rags as well as classics, this album displays Bolcom's ingenious approach to a favorite keyboard medium. This carefully selected collection of Rags includes three of Bolcom's latest compositions: Estela: Rag Latino, Knockout: A Rag, and The Brooklyn Dodge.
Brahms Piano Quintet / Schumann String Quartet
Pacifica Quartet , Menahem Pressler
The internationally celebrated, Grammy Award-winning Pacifica Quartet joins forces with legendary pianist Menahem Pressler of the Beaux Arts Trio for Johannes Brahms’s Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34, a pillar of German Romanticism that opens with one of the most recognizable melodies in classical music. Pressler, a consummate chamber artist, performs the virtuosic piano part with a clarity and transparency that makes the piano seem like a fellow member of the string ensemble.
Chopin and His World (The Bard Music Festival, 42)
Halina Goldberg , Jonathan Bellman
Fryderyk Chopin (1810–49), although the most beloved of piano composers, remains a contradictory figure, an artist of virtually universal appeal who preferred the company of only a few sympathetic friends and listeners. Chopin and His World reexamines Chopin and his music in light of the cultural narratives formed during his lifetime. These include the romanticism of the ailing spirit, tragically singing its death-song as life ebbs; the Polish expatriate, helpless witness to the martyrdom of his beloved homeland, exiled among friendly but uncomprehending strangers; the sorcerer-bard of dream, memory, and Gothic terror; and the pianist's pianist, shunning the appreciative crowds yet composing and improvising idealized operas, scenes, dances, and narratives in the shadow of virtuoso-idol Franz Liszt.
Complicating, Considering, and Connecting Music Education
Complicating, Considering, and Connecting Music Education proposes a poststructuralist-inspired philosophy of music teaching and learning. Complicating pervasive conceptions of self, other, and place, the book begins by emphasizing embodied, emotional, and social aspects of humanity. It then examines intersections between local and global music making. Next, the ethical implications of considering multiple viewpoints and imagining who music makers might become are considered. Ultimately, the book proposes that music education is good for facilitating differing connections with one's self and multiple environments. Throughout the text, the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari are integrated with narrative philosophy and personal narratives.
Pacifica Quartet , Otis Murphy
The Grammy Award-winning Pacifica Quartet performs works by three Pulitzer Prize-winning contemporary composers: Shulamit Ran, Jennifer Higdon, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.
Written for the Pacifica and receiving its world-premiere recording, Ran’s Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory — String Quartet No. 3 is a moving tribute to painter Felix Nussbaum, who perished in Auschwitz in 1944. Higdon’s Voices, dedicated to the Pacifica, evokes explosive energy, otherworldly calm, and spiritual serenity. In Zwilich’s Quintet for Alto Saxophone and String Quartet, a lusciously singing saxophone shares the spotlight with virtuosic string playing. The Pacifica, quartet in-residence at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, partner with their IU colleague, renowned classical saxophonist Otis Murphy.
Corno Da Capo - The Life and Adventures of an 18th Century Horn Player
Corno da Capo is a fantasy historical novel written especially for French horn players and musicians interested historical performance and music history. The general reader will also enjoy the story and learn much about European court musicians and traveling soloists in the last quarter of the 18th century.
The story follows the adventures of John Paulson, 21st century American horn player, who finds himself dropped into Paris in the year 1770, and how he survives and pursues a brilliant career as the 18th century Bohemian horn soloist Johann Palsa. Upon his arrival, he is befriended by horn player Carl Türrschmidt, and during their many adventures together, they become the most celebrated horn duo of the time.
This fictionalized story of these actual 18th century horn players, who were superstars during their lifetimes, is based on the relatively little information that has come down to us about them. The documented information about their lives is presented in the notes at the back of the book.
Thomas Walsh , Scott Reeves
The leading textbook in jazz improvisation, Creative Jazz Improvisation, Fifth Edition is a compendium of knowledge and practice resources for the university classroom, suitable for all musicians looking to develop and sharpen their soloing skills. Logically organized and guided by a philosophy that encourages creativity, this book presents practical advice beyond the theoretical, featuring exercises to practice, ear training and keyboard drills, songs to learn, and a wide range of solo transcriptions. Chapters highlight discussions of jazz theory - covering topics such as modes forms, chord substitutions, pentatonic scales, intervallic improvisation, free improvisation, and more - featuring updated content throughout.
Declarations: Music Between the Wars
The Pacifica Quartet mines the artistic ferment of the interwar years with a program of gems from the 1920s and early 30s. Hindemith’s stunning String Quartet No. 4, Op. 22 (1922) takes listeners on an amazing musical journey. Janácek’s fervent String Quartet No. 2 (“Intimate Letters”) from 1928 expresses the mature composer’s white-hot passion for a much younger woman. And the Pacifica revives the most significant composition by American Ruth Crawford Seeger: her dramatic 1931 String Quartet, which noted composer and critic Virgil Thomson hailed as “a noble piece of work.”