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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American composer Eugene O'Brien and the 21st Century Consort (ensemble-in-residence at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum) release Algebra of Night, featuring two chamber works that reveal O'Brien’s potent harmonic palette, lucid structures, and deeply considered subjects.
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.”
Joseph Gramley , Clive Driskill-Smith
A pairing of musical personalities as improbable and winning as the duo's combination of organ and percussion. The creative ease that exists between the two—developed not only during travel and concerts, but while finding and shaping a repertoire—is instantly evident to anyone watching them rehearse, perform, and now record.
Beethoven: Complete Piano Trios
Mark Kaplan , Peter Stumpf , Yael Weiss
The Weiss Kaplan Stumpf Trio's highly anticipated BEETHOVEN: COMPLETE PIANO TRIOS (BRIDGE 9505A/C three CDs) is now available. The stellar New York City based trio (Yael Weiss, piano; Mark Kaplan, violin; Peter Stumpf, cello) offer deep, beautifully rendered interpretations of eight immortal masterworks.
Kimberly Carballo , Michael Walker, Katie Dukes Walker
“The album is a theme and variations on the notion of love itself, turning the idea love over and seeing it from all its angles, in all its guises—romantic love, familial love, false love, self-love, and love of one’s culture. As a whole, the works they’ve selected invite us to consider how deep love goes, how we can find love in all facets of our lives, and how profound it is to be able to profess love.” - Dr. Alice Jones
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.