Reflections on American Music: The Twentieth Century and the New Millennium : A Collection of Essays Presented in Honor of the College Music Society ... and Bibliographies in American Music, No. 16)

And Co-edited By James R. Heintze And Michael Saffle. Series Title On Series T.p.: Monographs And Bibliographies In American Music; On Cover: Bibliographies And Monographs In American Music. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Frontmatter Illustrations (page ix) Acknowledgments (page xi) Preface: About a Book Called "Reflections on American Music" (Michael Saffle and James R. Heintze, page xiii) Part I CONCERNING THE COLLEGE MUSIC SOCIETY American Music and the College Music Society: An Introduction (Dale A. Olsen, page 3) Facilitating Learning: The Role of The College Music Society (Barbara English Maris, page 7) Is There a Future for the Traditions of Music and Music Teaching in Our Colleges and Universities? (Leon Botstein, page 17) The Rewaking (William Carlos Williams, page 27) Part II The Twentieth Century and the New Millennium From "Winter Music": A Composer's Journal (John Luther Adams, page 31) Music at the Millennium: America, the World, and the New Generation (David Amram, page 49) Medievalism in American Musical Life (Elizabeth Aubrey, page 55) Blending Choirs: A New Paradigm for High School Choirs with Odd Numbers and Strange Schedules (Barbara W. Baker, page 64) Music Publishing in America (Arnold Broido, page 69) Classical Music Criticism: Crises and Hopes (Scott Cantrell, page 81) Music Theory and Progressive Rock Style Analysis: On the Threshold of Art and Amplification (John S. Cotner, page 88) The Sounds of Silents: An Interview with Carl Davis (Carl Davis and John C. Tibbetts, page 107) American Coral Music at the Millennium (David P. DeVenney, page 119) The Music We've Called Jazz (Ethel Ennis and Earl Arnett, page 127) The Twenty-first-Century Maestro (JoAnn Falletta, page 134) Public-School Music Education in the Twentieth Century (Charles L. Gary, page 141) The Invisible Art: New Music in America (Bob Goldfarb, page 152) Music Librarianship: 70 Years Back and 70 Years Forward (Jane Gottlieb, page 160) Will Classical Music Remain a Vital Force in Our Culture? (Gary Graffman, page 169) A Proposal for Artist-owned Recordings and a University-based Music Distribution Network (Marnie Hall, page 173) And the Music Goes 'Round: An Interview with John Kander (John Kander and John C. Tibbetts, page 189) American Music Historiography Yesterday and Today (William Kearns, page 202) Challenges and Visions: Reflections on American Church Music (Marilyn A. Kielniarz, page 218) Foot Notes: Tap in the Twentieth Century (Ann Kilkelly, page 224) The Blues—Past and Future: An Interview with B. B. King (B. B. King and William R. Ferris, page 243) Jazz, Now and Always (Howard Mandel, page 258) Globalization, Culturation, and Transculturation in American Music: From Cultural Pop to Transcultural Art (Dale A. Olsen, page 265) A Case for Continuity (Jerold Ottley, page 291) They're Playing My Song: Performance Rights in the Twenty-first Century (Frances W. Preston, page 296) Confessions of a New Orleans Jazz Archivist (Bruce Boyd Raeburn, page 300) Cultural Outreach through Music in Community-College Education (Elizabeth C. Ramirez, page 313) The American Century: Remembering the Past, Contemplating the Future (Elliott Schwartz, page 319) Continental Harmony: A Community-based Celebration of the American Millennial Year (Patricia A. Shifferd, page 328) Finding Our Way Back Home: Tonality in the Twenty-first Century (Robert Sirota, page 351) Kurt Weill's Americana: The Open Road to the Future (Jack Sullivan, page 357) Performing-Rights Collectives: Dinosaurs of the New Millennium? (William Velez, page 365) Music Theory and Pedagogy before and after the Millennium (John White, page 375) Coming of Age: Reflections on Black Music Scholarship (Josephine R. B. Wright, page 391) "A Closed Fist" from Spirals (for violin, viola, and cello) (Judith Lang Zaimont, page 397) Index (page 407) The twentieth century - also called the "American century" by thousands of historians and artists around the world - has brought with it untold musical innovations: the popularization of ragtime and the blues, the birth and dissemination of jazz, gospel, and rock, the transmission via radio of music around the world, the transformation of sound recording from primitive cylinders and shellac disks to digital sound, the incorporation of film music into motion pictures, the rise (and decline) of twelve-tone techniques among American composers, the widespread use of music in advertising, the institution of programs that have made music education available to children throughout the United States. And so on. This book presents both the opinions of more than forty historians, theorists, composers, conductors, instrumentalists, singers, librarians, archivists, ethnomusicologists, music-business executives, schoolteachers, and experts of other kinds on the progress of music during the last hundred years and speculations by these individual son what may be in store for us in the opening decades of the "new millennium" and the twenty-first century The opinions of historians, theorists, composers, conductors, instrumentalists, librarians and teachers on the progress of music during the last 100 years, including the influence of jazz, rock, sound recording, film music.