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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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.
Music, Business, and Peacebuilding
Constance Cook , Timothy L. Fort
Strong scholarship argues that ethics is nurtured by emotions and through aesthetic quests for moral excellence. The arts can be a resource to nudge positive emotions in the direction toward ethical behavior and, logically, then toward peace. Business provides a model for positive interactions that foster long-term successful businesses and also incrementally influence society. This book provides an opportunity for integration and recognition of how music can further encourage business toward the direction of peace while business provides a platform for the dissemination and modeling of the positive capabilities of music toward the aims of peace in the world today.
Music Education Research: An Introduction
Peter Miksza , Julia Shaw , Lauren Kapalka Richerme , Phillip M. Hash, Donald A. Hodges
Designed to be used as a primary text in introductory research methods courses, Music Education Research: An Introduction aims to orient even the most novice researchers toward basic concepts and methodologies. Offering sustained attention to historical, philosophical, qualitative, quantitative, and action research approaches, the book includes overviews of how to read, interpret, design, and implement research within each framework. Readers will also find advice for conducting a review of research literature, scholarly writing, and disseminating research. All in all, the book serves as an invitation to consider how conducting research can serve to satisfy curiosities while also contributing to our collective professional knowledge.
John Gibson and Chi Wang, faculty in the Center for Electronic and Computer Music (CECM), composed pieces that appear on a new CD from the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS). The annual CD, Music from SEAMUS, comprises the top pieces from the previous year's national SEAMUS conference—this time at the DiMenna Center in New York City—as determined by a vote of the organization's membership. Gibson's piece, In Summer Rain, explores the sound of a rainstorm. Wang performs her piece, Transparent Affordance, by tapping and drawing on an iPad to control her sound.
Dana Marsh , Trevor Weston, Washington Bach Consort
Myths Contested explores enduring ideals, both of and about art—as well as notions of aesthetic value, culture, and representation. Bach’s secular The Contest between Phoebus and Pan, featuring librettist Picander’s remix of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, is paired with Trevor Weston’s A New Song—a timely modern companion to Bach’s dramma per musica.
In celebration of the 100 anniversary of Rhapsody in Blue composed in 1924 and Concerto in F composed in 1925.
NOTUS: Of Radiance and Refraction
Dominick DiOrio , Konrad Strauss , D. James Tagg
Of Radiance and Refraction, NOTUS' debut album, demonstrates the wealth of talent found in the student ensemble led by Dominick DiOrio, as well as the remarkable works written for them by composition teachers at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music: Aaron Travers, John Gibson, Claude Baker, and Sven-David Sandström. Also featuring Zorá String Quartet.