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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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.
Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital: Centering the Periphery
Halina Goldberg , Nancy Sinkoff, Natalia Aleksiun, Zehavit Stern, Justin Cammy
Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital: Centering the Periphery is a path-breaking exploration of the diversity and vitality of urban Jewish identity and culture in Polish lands from the second half of the nineteenth century to the outbreak of the Second World War (1899-1939). In this multidisciplinary essay collection, a cohort of international scholars provides an integrated history of the arts and humanities in Poland by illuminating the complex roles Jews in urban centers other than Warsaw played in the creation of Polish and Polish Jewish culture.
Project Cadenzas: An Intercultural Journey
Drawn from a variety of live performances, this recording reflects the musical pastiche that defines Project Cadenzas, a creative fieldwork and collaboration that brings together the richness of Baroque art music and the traditional cultural expression of Taiwan, in an effort to showcase artistic expression and creative improvisation while also reflecting social-cultural contexts. Project Cadenzas: An Intercultural Journey is a collection from numerous live concerts on improvisational topics, which were successfully performed using ethnic Taiwanese instruments, traditional Chinese instruments, and Western instruments (harpsichord). Cross-cultural collaborative partners include the Graduate Institute of Musicology at National Taiwan University (NTU), the Graduate Institute of Ethnomusicology at National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU), and the Chinese Music Department at Tainan National University of the Arts (TNNUA), offering new perspectives for viewing the artistic riches of the participating cultural traditions.
Protest Chants as Public Music Theory
This article recounts a music theorist’s experience with transcribing and analyzing protest chants as a form of public music theory, drawing from over a decade of fieldwork at demonstrations in Japan and the United States, including antinuclear protests in Japan, the Women’s March, Black Lives Matter demonstrations, and protests related to reproductive freedom and gun control. While exploring how music analysis can serve public needs, the project also raises important methodological and ethical questions. The transcriptions demonstrate how protesters use rhythmic patterns, intonation, and musical structures to build solidarity and amplify their message, often drawing on historical precedents and popular culture. By publishing analyses through open-access platforms and social media, I make musical transcriptions and insights available to activists and the public. However, this approach also reveals tensions between academic and public-facing scholarship, including questions about notation methods, the limitations of transcription, recognition of the work as scholarship by colleagues, and the role of social media in knowledge dissemination. The article ultimately considers how music theorists can meaningfully engage with contemporary social movements while navigating the challenges of public scholarship in a digital age.
Rachmaninoff & Chopin: Cello Sonatas
Spencer Myer , Brian Thornton
Much of these two sonatas is about partnership; the nature of chamber music lends itself to this reading. And with these works, the idea of partnership occurs not only in their respective histories but in the interplay of the instruments themselves, with piano and cello performing equally.
Resonant Recoveries: French Music and Trauma Between the World Wars
Coping with trauma and the losses of World War I was a central concern for French musicians in the interwar period. Almost all of them were deeply affected by the war as they fought in the trenches, worked in military hospitals, or mourned a friend or relative who had been wounded, killed, or taken prisoner. In Resonant Recoveries, author Jillian C. Rogers argues that French modernist composers processed this experience of unprecedented violence by turning their musical activities into locations for managing and performing trauma. When musicians and their audiences used music to remember lost loved ones, perform grief, create healing bonds of friendship, and find consolation in soothing sonic vibrations and rhythmic bodily movements, they reconfigured music into an embodied means of consolation--a healer of wounded minds and bodies. This in-depth account of the profound impact that postwar trauma had on French musical life makes a powerful case for the importance of addressing trauma, mourning, and people's emotional lives in music scholarship.