Edward Green — Composer, Music Educator

Faculty: Manhattan School of Music,
Aesthetic Realism Foundation

Conference Papers:

  • “A New Approach to the Teaching of Musical Composition.” American Society of University Composers, Toronto 1986.
  • “The Aesthetic Realism of Eli Siegel Explains the Beauty of Jazz, and of Duke Ellington.” International Association of Jazz Educators. Washington, D.C. 1991. (This address was sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution.)
  • “Tovey’s Haydn—A Call for Philosophic Musicology.” American Musicological Society (GNYC), New York 2004.
  • “Richard Rodgers and the Integrity of a Musical Scene.” Comparative Drama Conference, Ohio State University, Columbus 2004.
  • “Aesthetic Realism: A New Foundation for Interdisciplinary Musicology.” (Co-authored with Arnold Perey) First International Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology, sponsored by the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, Graz 2004. (Published on-line by ESCOM)
  • “Rhythm Has the Ethics We Want.” (Co-authored with Alan Shapiro) NY State School Music Association, Buffalo 2004.
  • “Teaching Ethnomusicology: A New Perspective.” Society for Ethnomusicology, Tucson 2004.
  • “On the Rhythm of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring.” NY State School Music Association, Rochester 2004.
  • “Ellington’s Ko-Ko and the Art of Motivic Composition.” American Musicological Society (GNYC), New York 2005.
  • “The Impact of Rousseau on the Music Histories of Burney and Hawkins.” RILM, CUNY, New York 2005.
  • “Sir Edward Elgar: Master of Rhythm.” Elgar Conference, University of Birmingham, Stratford-on-Avon and Broadheath 2005.
  • “Music and the Victorian Mind; Or, What We Can Learn from the Popularity of H.R. Haweis.” Fifth Biennial International Conference on Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Nottingham 2005.
  • “Marcabru: Exemplar of Western Song.” Medieval & Renaissance Music Conference, Tours 2005.
  • “The Mind of Felix Mendelssohn: A Study in the Combat between Respect and Contempt.” International Conference: Mendelssohn in the Long Nineteenth Century, Dublin 2005.
  • “Meeting the New—What We Still Can Learn from the Earliest ‘Ethnomusicologists’.” Society for Ethnomusicology, Atlanta 2005.
  • “Scelsi in the Mainstream; Or, Trio à Cordes.” Society of Composers, Inc., National Conference, University of North Carolina at Greensboro 2005.
  • “Harmony and the Oneness of Opposites: Teaching Music Theory through Aesthetic Realism.” College Music Society National Conference, Québec City 2005.
  • “The Saturation of Chromatic Space as a Structural Principle in the Late Choral Music of Mozart.” Mozart Society of America, Indiana University School of Music, Bloomington 2006.
  • “Zhou Long and the Fate of Traditional Chinese Music in Contemporary New York.” Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Hunter College, New York 2006.
  • “Jazz and the Art of Through-Composition.” Society for American Music, Chicago 2006.
  • “Buddhism in Western Clothes: A Cultural/Musical Analysis of Zhou Long’s Dhyana.” Music and the Asian Diaspora, Westminster Choir College, Princeton 2006.
  • “‘Naoligerma’ and ‘Erlkönig’—An Austro-Mongolian Dialogue on Word-Music Relations.” Music and the Asian Diaspora, Lyrica Society Session, Westminster Choir College, Princeton 2006.
  • “Haydn and the Art of Chromatic Completion.” American Musicological Society (GNYC), Princeton 2006.
  • “Marcabru’s Bel m’es quan son li fruich madur—A Masterpiece of Early Western Song.” National Associations of the Teachers of Singers, Lyrica Society Session, Minneapolis 2006.
  • “Bernard Herrmann and English Romanticism; Or, an Anglophile among the Viennese of Hollywood.” Biennial Conference of the North American British Music Studies Association, St. Michael’s College, Colchester 2006.
  • “The Mind of Adolf Hitler: A Study in the Unconscious Appeal of Contempt.” German Studies Association National Conference, Pittsburgh, 2006.
  • “John Lennon—and the Battle between Contempt and Respect.” Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association, Baltimore 2006.
  • “Haydn’s Secret ‘Dodecaphonic’ Art.” American Musicological Society, Los Angeles 2006.
  • “Reconsidering Rousseau’s Le Devin du village: An Opera of Startling Paradox.” Modern Language Association, Lyrica Society Session, Philadelphia 2006.
  • “Home and the Wide-World: A Critical Dialectic in the Music (and Life) of Stephen Foster—Songwriter from Pittsburgh.” Society for American Music, Pittsburgh 2007.
  • “Mozart’s Requiem, the Saturation of Chromatic Space, and the Theology of Death as Continuation.” Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship, Yale Institute of Sacred Music, 2007.
  • “Steiner, Korngold, and the Musical Expression of Physical Space.” Conference on Music and the Moving Image, New York University, 2007

Conferences—Panelist, Keynoter, and Director :

  • “It’s No Accident, It’s by Chance!—Cage, and A New Look at the Aesthetics of Freedom and Order.” Keynote for the 1993 Festival of 20 th Century Music—Celebrating Cage, Manhattan School of Music, New York 1993.
  • “The Poetry of Eli Siegel: A Centennial Celebration.” Panelist/Presenter, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore. 2002.
  • “Aesthetic Realism and the Music of Duke Ellington.” Convocation address to the Lamont School of Music of Denver University, 2003.
  • “Education in Music Is Every Musician’s Responsibility.” Panelist, Northeast Chapter Conference of the College Music Society, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre 2006.
  • “Aesthetic Realism: Technique and Feeling in Film.” Panelist: Artists Talk on Art Seminar Series, School of Visual Arts, New York 2006.
  • “Music in a Tumultuous Time: Aesthetic Realism and Rock in the 1960s.” Organizer of this panel session for the annual conference of the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association, Baltimore 2006.
  • “Ellington’s Far East Suite—a Musical and Philosophic Masterpiece.”
  • Address to the Jazz Roundtable series at the Institute for Jazz Research, Rutgers, scheduled for June, 2007.