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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Peter Miksza , Stephanie Prichard (University of Maryland)
Teaching kids how to practice can be an elusive process. Musicians and music teachers have each encountered their share of challenges and successes along the road towards developing an understanding of effective practice approaches and methods for motivating students to use them. However, with careful planning and pedagogical insights garnered from the research literature, we propose that the process of teaching and learning to practice can be efficient, enjoyable, and rewarding.
The Working Timpanist's Survival Guide
This repertoire book includes the most commonly asked orchestral timpani excerpts at auditions today. This invaluable resource contains carefully illustrated excerpts, insightful photos, and online files with timpani parts included.
For the timpanist who might be learning orchestral repertoire for the first time, or revisiting it, the 'recommended recordings' list is also very helpful. The professional timpanist will also enjoy the variety of musical and technical options presented in this book.
Options include: edited dynamics, changes in drum arrangement, stickings, illustrations, and other items of interest. The repertoire in this volume contains the most commonly requested music at auditions today.
Grigory Kalinovsky , Hans Jørgen Jensen
ViolinMind is a pedagogical method book that has been written to help musicians understand HOW intonation works and, more importantly, WHY it works the way it does. It is an adaptation of the acclaimed book CelloMind.
Visualizing Music explores the art of communicating about music through images. Drawing on principles from the fields of vision science and information visualization, Eric Isaacson describes how graphical images can help us understand music, offers a guide to understanding what makes musical images effective or ineffective, and provides readers with extensive principles and strategies to create excellent images of their own. Together with an extensive online supplement, the book includes nearly 500 diagrams from both historical and modern sources, including examples and theories from Western art music, world music, and jazz, folk, and popular music.
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Complete Sonatas and Sonatina for Violin & Piano
Grigory Kalinovsky , Tatiana Goncharova
Mieczyslaw Weinberg is now recognized as one of the outstanding Russian composers of the second half of the twentieth century. Fêted for his symphonies and string quartets, he also wrote a sequence of Violin Sonatas crucial to the development of his distinctive and elusive musical idiom. Shostakovich's influence is evident in the Third Violin Sonata, as are Jewish melodic elements, while the Fourth Violin Sonata is alternately sombre and hectic. His masterpiece is the Fifth Violin Sonata, symphonic in scale but subtle in form, and containing some of his most affecting writing.
What is Ours - Music for an America in Progress
Dominick DiOrio , Roger Roe , D. James Tagg
There are generally two ways one can face a crisis. One can give up, or one can persevere and use it to one’s advantage. Choir director Dominick DiOrio definitely chose the latter during the pandemic, turning his reflections and sentiments about it into a profoundly engaging, almost philosophical choral album titled WHAT IS OURS. DiOrio conjures a formidable cross-section of music by a range of contemporary composers that not only reflects the diversity and multiplicity of modern-day America, but also its underbelly of struggle, challenge, and an eventual triumph of humanity.