User:HonorableRuler

Overview
Hi! I am a Masters in Dalcroze Eurhythmics student at Longy School of Music where I am participating in a class known as "The Future of Classical Music." We are currently endeavoring to create a Wikipedia page on this subject, and a list of participants can be found on our central page. This project is just getting off the ground, so check back frequently for new updates as the year progresses!

The Future of Classical Music
The future of classical music is a difficult topic to pin down. How do you put your finger on something that is as intangible or ethereal as music? Not to mention a specific substratum, classical, that has as many differing opinions and convictions as it does participants! While we may not come to an overall consensus, I think we can at least make a case for how we got where we are (of course, that means we have to determine where we are!) and some possible places that that course may take us: "Classical music is always being accused of being 'stuck in the past' and 'irrelevant'. And yet the most striking and obvious fact about classical music is its colossal dynamism.  It looks back, the better to leap forwards" (Hewett).

Sandbox
User:HonorableRuler/Sandbox Check this out for a compilation of articles and websites that were referenced in our class blog throughout Fall 2007. This is a work in progress; I am only halfway through October, so keep checking back for more articles. I am using the class outline (found on our central page as my basis, but it's not always clear as to where a particular article should go. So feel free to help organize them or to contribute additional articles, but stick with the format I am currently using.

Topics
The possible subjects to research regarding the future of classical music are seemingly endless. This is just a rough outline that I'll keep expanding as I go. There are many ways this could be set up. It is rather problematic because so many of the topics are intertwined; a history of each of the other topics could be given; technology could go in every other topic; performer/audience relations should be addressed where? The problems are endless, so feel free to add your own contributions - this is definitely a work in progress!

I have started looking around wikipedia to see what is already available on some of these topics, thus you'll see the internal links in the outline. At least two of the articles, "Tonality" and "Music Education", have issues that wikipedia has flagged. Check those out, but also take a peek at the talk pages of any of the others. I haven't looked too in-depth yet, but what I've seen has been rather illuminating!


 * History
 * FCM Dialogue
 * "Classical Music" as a concept
 * "Modern Music" (See Modern music (very sad) and Modernism (music) (much more promising))
 * Avant-garde
 * John Cage, Dada
 * Contemporary classical music and a different articlecontemporary music
 * Electronic art music
 * Pauline Oliveros
 * Creation
 * Composition
 * Musical Notation -this site looks fairly comprehensive-
 * brief history?
 * Techniques
 * Tonality -the factual accuracy of this site is disputed as of 11/14/07-
 * Atonality
 * Serialism -flagged for improvement as of 11/14/07-
 * Twelve-tone technique
 * Musical Set Theory
 * Noise Music
 * Improvisation
 * Musical improvisation
 * Jazz Improvisation
 * Free improvisation
 * Impetus
 * Religion
 * Aristocracy patronization
 * Commission
 * University patronization
 * Technology
 * MIDI composition -merged into MIDI as of 11/18/07-
 * Notation software
 * Computers in composition
 * Improvisation
 * Performance
 * Concert/Theatrical (here or as a subcategory of Performance Venues?)
 * Venues
 * Live, Cyber, Educational
 * Standards
 * (link to "Technology")
 * Audience
 * Participation
 * Expectations
 * Add a section discussing the change of both Audience Participation and Expectations throughout history
 * Music Education
 * Private Instruction
 * Preparatory Studies at Conservatories
 * music lessons
 * master class
 * clinic (music)
 * Public Education
 * National Standards for Music Education
 * State Standards for Music Education
 * Educational Institution Performance Ensembles
 * Instrumental Ensembles
 * Recorder Ensemble
 * School band
 * School Orchestra
 * School Jazz band
 * Handbell Choir
 * Mariachi Band
 * Marching Band
 * Guitar Ensemble
 * Chamber music Ensemble
 * Vocal Ensembles
 * Symphonic Choir
 * Vocal Jazz Choir
 * Show Choir
 * U.S./Int'l
 * Infant through High School
 * Proscribed methods to teach music
 * Dalcroze
 * Kodaly
 * Orff Schulwerk
 * Edwin Gordon
 * Suzuki
 * Collegiate, Conservatory
 * Audiences, General Populace
 * Technology(Those of you who are more up on this than I, HELP! That means all of you!)
 * Internet
 * Digital rights management
 * Listening
 * Radio, Digital audio players, Streaming media over the Inernet, T.V., etc.
 * Crossover
 * Science
 * Noise Music
 * Electronic art music
 * Music Therapy
 * Philosophy



Relevant Articles
I will add articles that are relevant to various topics in the outline above. Keep checking back for updates, and feel free to add your own.

Performance

 * "Ears Wide Open" (Boston Globe. Oct 28, 2007). "Gil Rose had the vision to start an orchestra - though not of the typical variety. As he saw it, too much of the classical music world had become an empty cult of virtuosity, a museum culture enshrining the past and content to endlessly cycle through the same small body of works."

Music Education - School Age, Public, Technology

 * SmartMusic: a computer program designed to help kids practice.
 * 1. A 5-minute NPR "All Things Considered" segment.  Hear what the kids have to say as well as teachers, for and against SmartMusic.
 * 2. "Boston Globe" (Oct 11, 2007) article for more information on SmartMusic.

Science

 * Music Therapy
 * "The Power of Music" (Boston Globe. Oct 29, 2007). The health/recovery effects of music, both listening and composing.

Copyright Issues

 * "Holst Foundation Sues Film Composer for Copyright Infringement" (Playbill Arts. June 15, 2006). Where is the line that determines when a composition goes from being influenced by a work, to becoming a copyright infringement?  What are the measurable criterion?  It seems that a lot in music counts on people acting with integrity, because the lines are so subjective.  (Just my own humble thoughts here.)

Wiki Articles Needing Assistance

 * Anacrusis - does not cite any references or sources; check out the discussion page, specifically the baseball simile.
 * Crusis - does not exist
 * Metacrusis - does not exist
 * Augmentation - stub
 * Diminution - stub
 * Eurhythmics - rated as Start-Class on the quality scale; is part of WikiProject Dance, but not Music?; references vs citations?
 * never says "Dalcroze Eurhythmics" or defines Eur (good flow)
 * does not discuss certification, license, or diplome process
 * could include link to Longy wiki-page regarding MM in Dalcroze Eur.
 * could use more specific discussion of elements within a eurhythmics class, such as Dalcroze games
 * Eurhythmics, solfege, improvisation
 * plastique
 * Eur. and the elderly under "Effectiveness of D.Eur."
 * Time Signature - C-Class article; needs additional citations for verification
 * Simple metre - Stub; suggestion to merge into meter
 * Compound meter (music) - Stub
 * Duple - Stub
 * Tuplet - interesting talk page
 * Counting (music) - we should be able to clarify this a bit