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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John Raymond , Kind Folk (John Raymond, Alex LoRe, Noam Wiesenberg, Colin Stranahan)
Recorded at Samurai Hotel Recording, in New York City, June 8, 2021.
Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack
In Jewish Religious Music in Nineteenth-Century America: Restoring the Synagogue Soundtrack, Judah M. Cohen demonstrates that Jews constructed a robust religious musical conversation in the United States during the mid- to late-19th century. While previous studies of American Jewish music history have looked to Europe as a source of innovation during this time, Cohen's careful analysis of primary archival sources tells a different story. Far from seeing a fallow musical landscape, Cohen finds that Central European Jews in the United States spearheaded a major revision of the sounds and traditions of synagogue music during this period of rapid liturgical change.
Légende: Concours for Oboe and Piano
Kevin Murphy , Konrad Strauss , ToniMarie Marchioni
For decades, each year the Paris Conservatoire hosted a public Concours, or competition, that acted as the final examination for the students. In order to graduate, the student was expected to attain First Prize (Premier prix). For each competition, a solo work was commissioned – that is, written expressly for the occasion – or selected from previous years’ repertoire in order to test all facets of a students’ playing, from technical prowess to musical interpretation. For years, this process generated a large body of repertoire that is both pedagogically significant and artistically rewarding. Despite the merit and beauty of this music, very few pieces have been commercially or professionally recorded, and even fewer by American oboists. For the majority of the works on this album, these are the first recordings.
Listen Up! Fostering Musicianship Through Active Listening
In Listen Up!, author Brent Gault approaches listening instruction by actively using other musical behaviors (singing, moving, chanting, creating) and aural, visual, and kinesthetic learning modes. This in turn becomes a way to foster in young children a deeper, more meaningful connection with musical material while at the same time strengthening their active listening skills. The book provides teachers with a compendium of sample experiences that utilize music listening excerpts not only to offer an opportunity to listen to select pieces of music, but to also reinforce given musical concepts (rhythm, melody, form) that are made prominent in the selections. While teachers may use Gault's examples exactly as they stand, Gault also provides an opening section of strategies that they may use to develop their own listening lessons based on the ones in the book, with the hope that they will develop their own strategies and lessons in the future. A key selling point for Listen Up! is its dedicated companion website of slides for each lesson, with visual material that students can view and respond to as they listen.
An innovative and engaging book-and-website resource, Listen Up! will be of practical interest to elementary music specialists for use in music classrooms. The book will also be a resource for methods teachers working with pre-service music educators in addition to music education undergraduate and graduate students preparing to teach music at the elementary level.
Listening to Bach: The Mass in B Minor and the Christmas Oratorio
Of all the things we can know about J. S. Bach's Mass in B Minor and Christmas Oratorio, the most profound come from things we can hear. Listening to Bach explores musical style as it was understood in the early eighteenth century. It encourages ways of listening that take eighteenth-century musical sensibilities into account and that recognize our place as inheritors of a long tradition of performance and interpretation.
Daniel R. Melamed shows how to recognize old and new styles in sacred music of Bach's time, and how movements in these styles are constructed. This opens the possibility of listening to the Mass in B Minor as Bach's demonstration of the possibilities of contrasting, combining, and reconciling old and new styles. It also shows how to listen for elements that would have been heard as most significant in the early eighteenth century, including markers of sleep arias, love duets, secular choral arias, and other movement types. This offers a musical starting point for listening for the ways Bach put these types to use in the Mass in B Minor and the Christmas Oratorio.
Listening to Charles Ives: Variations on His America
Charles Ives is widely regarded as the first great American composer of classical music. But listening to his music is an adventure—hearing how a piece begins may not prepare you for what comes next, or how it ends. Knowing one Ives piece may not prepare you for another.
Mendelssohn: The Complete String Quartets
One of today’s most dynamic and exciting ensembles, the Pacifica Quartet celebrates its 10th anniversary with a three-CD set of Mendelssohn’s complete string quartet cycle. Known for its “stunningly expressive performances” (The Guardian) and “ideal balance” (Washington Post), the youthful Pacifica is a perfect match for this early Romantic composer’s exuberant chamber music.
Mozart & Brahms Clarinet Quintets
Pacifica Quartet , Anthony McGill
The dynamic, multiple Grammy Award-winning Pacifica Quartet and the New York Philharmonic's superstar principal clarinetist Anthony McGill join forces for the clarinet quintets of Mozart and Brahms — widely considered the greatest chamber works for this combination of instruments.
Mozart’s radiant Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581, with its aria-like melodies, and Brahms’s expansive Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115, with its haunting, sunset glow, are mature masterworks inspired by phenomenal clarinetists of the day.
Music Assessment for Better Ensembles
Assessment is central to ensemble music. Yet, teachers do not always have the expertise to harness its potential to improve rehearsals and performances, and promote and document student learning. Written specifically for band, choir, and orchestra teachers at all levels, this book contains all of the information necessary to design and use assessment in a thriving music classroom.