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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General Music: Dimensions of Practice
Brent Gault , Carlos Abril
General Music: Dimensions of Practice is a practical guide for music teachers and teaching artists who strive to teach music holistically. The book begins by framing general music as a holistic music education that is comprehensive, meaningful, and relevant to diverse learners in school and community settings. It is followed by chapters that are organized into one of four dimensions of music practice: performing, connecting, creating, and responding.
Brent Wallarab , Mark Buselli
This four-movement jazz suite is a tribute to Gennett Records, of Richmond, Indiana, and the jazz greats that recorded there in the 1920s: King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Hoagy Carmichael, Bix Beiderbecke, and Louis Armstrong.
The suite was inspired by such jazz classics as “Tin Roof Blues,” “Chimes Blues,” “Davenport Blues,” “Stardust,” “Riverboat Shuffle,” “King Porter Stomp,” and more. Wallarab’s composition takes these songs, expands them to a 17-piece jazz orchestra, and gives them a fresh, modern twist while remaining true to their original nature.
"...a bravura solo performance of world multi-percussion - from traditional African melody to contemporary American minimalism - by a "brilliant" (New York TIMES) young musician with a growing international reputation."
- CD baby
John Raymond , Kind Folk (John Raymond, Alex LoRe, Noam Wiesenberg, Colin Stranahan)
Recorded at Samurai Hotel Recording, in New York City, June 8, 2021.
Inclusive Music Histories: Leading Change through Research and Pedagogy
Inclusive Music Histories: Leading Change through Research and Pedagogy models effective practices for researchers and instructors striving either to reform music history curricula at large or update individual topics within their classes to be more inclusive.
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.
Joseph Gramley , The Knights
The Knights Before Christmas is a surprising mix of holiday chestnuts and unearthed gems from NYC's renowned and daring chamber orchestra The Knights. The album features a diverse group of star collaborators: Krystle Warren; Grammy nominees Anthony Roth Costanzo, Magos Herrera, and Gaby Moreno; and Grammy winners Wu Man and I'm With Her. The album is produced by Christina Courtin, and the songs feature new lush, inventive orchestrations and arrangements by members of The Knights, making the ensemble integral to the narrative of the music, allowing the singers to soar above.
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.