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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The Soviet Experience Volume IV: String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich and Alfred Schnittke
This is the final installment in the Pacifica Quartet’s highly anticipated, and already highly acclaimed four-volume CD survey of the complete Shostakovich string quartets: The Soviet Experience: String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich and his Contemporaries. The Soviet Experience Volume IV features Shostakovich’s String Quartets Nos. 13–15 from the 1970s. The Thirteenth Quartet’s one and only movement featuring extensive solo viola uses extended techniques uncommon for Russian composers at that time.
Teaching General Music: Approaches, Issues, and Viewpoints
General music is informed by a variety of teaching approaches and methods. These pedagogical frameworks guide teachers in planning and implementing instruction. Established approaches to teaching general music must be understood, critically examined, and possibly re-imagined for their potential in school and community music education programs.
Teaching General Music brings together the top scholars and practitioners in general music education to create a panoramic view of general music pedagogy and to provide critical lenses through which to view these frameworks. The collection includes an examination of the most prevalent approaches to teaching general music, including Dalcroze, Informal Learning, Interdisciplinary, Kodály, Music Learning Theory, Orff Schulwerk, Social Constructivism, and World Music Pedagogy. In addition, it provides critical analyses of general music and teaching systems, in light of the ways children around the world experience music in their lives. Rather than promoting or advocating for any single approach to teaching music, this book presents the various approaches in conversation with one another. Highlighting the perceived and documented benefits, limits, challenges, and potentials of each, Teaching General Music offers myriad lenses through which to re-read, re-think, and re-practice these approaches.
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.
Peter Miksza , Daphne Tan, Robert F. Potter, McCall Booth
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of visual information on the perception of emotion in three contexts: a short spoken phrase, an analogous short melody, and a longer melody with greater complexity of pitch and rhythm. Participants without substantial formal music training were assigned to either an audio-only, visual-only, or audiovisual presentation mode; all observed musicians and actors who sang melodies or spoke phrases intending to communicate happiness, sadness, or anger. Participants rated these performances for positive and negative valence, energy arousal, and tension arousal. They were also asked to select the discrete emotion they perceived, and to rate how certain they were about this selection.
The Presence of the Past: Temporal Experience and the New Hollywood Soundtrack
In the tumultuous era of the late 1960s and early 70s, several currents of American art and culture coalesced around a broad sensibility that foregrounded the immediacy of lived experience, whether as an aesthetic or political imperative. But in popular cinema set in the historical past, this sensibility acquired complex additional resonances by speaking to immediacy and ephemerality through a framework of history, myth, nostalgia, and other forms of experience associated with temporal alienation or distance. The Presence of the Past argues for the film-philosophical importance of the soundtrack for cultivating an imagined experiential understanding of the past.
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Protest Music After Fukushima
Nuclear power has been a contentious issue in Japan since the 1950s, and the conflict grew in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster. This book shows how music played a central role in mobilizing resistance against nuclear power in Japan. Combining musical analysis with ethnographic participation, it considers how spaces central to the performance of protest music—cyberspace, demonstrations, festivals, and recordings—involve different levels of media censorship and social constraints, leading to different methods of political messaging and modes of participation. The mobile accessibility and potential anonymity of cyberspace allowed musicians to challenge the silence that permeated Japanese culture post-Fukushima. The performance and reception of sound in street demonstrations are shaped by the urban geographies and acoustics of Japanese cities. Music festivals offer a heterotopia that encourages musicians and audiences to engage in political expression through informative and immersive performances. Japanese record companies discourage direct political expression, pushing musicians to use allegories and metaphors. The first book on Japan's antinuclear music, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised provides a compelling new perspective on the role of music in political movements.
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.