Edward Green —
Composer, Music Educator

Faculty: Manhattan School of Music,
Aesthetic Realism Foundation


Scholarly Publications:

  • “What Gives Music Theater Musical Integrity?—A Study of the Opening Scene of Richard Rodgers’ South Pacific.” Journal of Theater and Dramatic Criticism. Vol. 21/1 (Fall 2006)
  • “Biography as Ethics: The Combat between Contempt and Respect in the Mind of Felix Mendelssohn.” International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music. Vol. 37/2 (December 2006)
  • “The Principle of Chromatic Saturation in the Late Choral Music of Mozart and Haydn.” Choral Journal. Vol. 46/12. (June 2006)
  • Teaching Music in the Urban Classroom. (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006). Contributor. Chapter: “Music of Every Culture Has Something in Common and Can Teach Us About Ourselves.” (Co-authored with Alan Shapiro.)
  • “Sir Edward Elgar, Master of Rhythm.” The Elgar Society Journal. Vol. 14/4. (March 2006)
  • “Just How Radical was Harry Partch?—“The Long-Departed Lover” in the Light of Traditional Techniques of Songwriting.” 1/1—The Journal of the Just Intonation Network. Vol. 12/2. (Spring 2006)
  • “Donald Francis Tovey, Aesthetic Realism, and the Need for a Philosophic Musicology.” International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music. Vol. 36/2. (December 2005)
  • “A Note on Two Conceptions of Aesthetic Realism.” British Journal of Aesthetics. Vol. 45/4. (October 2005)
  • “Singing ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’” Music Educators Journal. Vol. 91/5. (May 2005)
  • “Zhou Long and the Future of Chinese Music.” Chinese Music—The Journal of the Chinese Music Society of North America. Part I: Vol. 27/4; Part II: Vol. 28/1. (Winter 2004; Spring 2005)
  • Proceedings of the Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology  (Department of Musicology, University of Graz, 2004).  Chapter: “Aesthetic Realism: A New Foundation for Interdisciplinary Musicology.” (Co-authored with Arnold Perey.)
  • “Music from China and the Universal Criterion for Beauty.” Composer: USA—The Bulletin of the National Association of Composers, USA. Series IV, Vol. 8/1. (Fall 2001)
  • “Aesthetic Realism.” Composer—Magazine of the British Music Information Centre. Number 68. (Winter 1979/80)

Accepted for Publication:

  • The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington.  (Cambridge University Press.) Editor and contributor. Chapter: “Ellington in the 1940s.” Publication: 2008.
  • China and the West: The Birth of a New Music. Editor and contributor to this special volume of Contemporary Music Review. (Routledge.) Chapter:  “The Music of Zhou Long.” Publication: 2007.
  • Music’s Intellectual History. (RILM Perspectives Series) Contributor.     Chapter: “The Impact of Rousseau on the Music Histories of Burney and Hawkins: A Study in the Ethics of Musicology.” Publication: Fall, 2007.
  • “It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got that Grundgestalt”—Duke Ellington, Looked at Freshly.” Jazz Perspectives
  • “Zhou Long’s Dhyana and the Question of Formal Closure in Buddhist Aesthetics.” Contemporary Music Review
  • Encyclopedia of Sex, Love & Culture in the Medieval World. (Greenwood Publishers.) Contributor. Five articles: Marcabru, Troubadours, Trobaritzes, Minnesingers, Meistersingers. Publication: Summer, 2007.
  • “Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony, and the Abiding Question of Sincerity in Music.” Three Oranges: Journal of the Sergei Prokofiev Foundation
  • “What is Chapter 17 of Guido’s Micrologus about?—A Proposal for a New Answer.” International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music
  • “Marcabru and the Foundations of Western Song.” Ars Lyrica
  • “Aesthetic Realism and Mahler’s Sixth Symphony—Some Philosophic Light on a Symphonic Masterpiece in its Centennial Year.” Journal of Music and Meaning
  • “Ellington and the Art of Motivic Composition.” Ongakugaku: Journal of the Musicological Society of Japan
  • “The Musical Aesthetics of the Rev. H.R. Haweis—A New Look at a Surprisingly Adventurous Victorian Mind.” International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music
  • “Meeting the New: What 21st Century Music Educators Can Still Learn from the Earliest Ethnomusicologists.” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education

Reviews:

American Music.
— Vivian Perlis and Libby Van Cleve. Composers’ Voices from Ives to Ellington. (Scheduled to appear.)
— Lawrence Gushee. Pioneers of Jazz: The Story of the Creole Band. (Scheduled to appear.)

Ars Lyrica.
— Edmund J. Goehring. Three Modes of Perception in Mozart. (Scheduled to appear in the 2006 annual.)
— David Jenness and Don Velsey. Classic American Popular Song: The Second Half-Century, 1950-2000. (Scheduled for 2007 annual.)

Ethnomusicology.
— Michael Tenzer, ed. Analytical Studies in World Music. (Scheduled to appear.)

International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music.
— Christopher Butler. Pleasure and the Arts: Enjoying Literature, Painting and Music. Vol. 35/2. (December 2004)
— Caryl Clark, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Haydn. Vol. 37/1. (June 2006)
— Cliff Eisen and Simon E. Keepe, eds. The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia. Vol. 37/2. (December 2006)
— Mark Evans Bonds. Music as Thought: Listening to the Symphony in the Age of Beethoven. (Scheduled to appear.)

Journal of Music and Meaning.
— Michael Tenzer. Gamelan Gong Kebjar: The Art of Twentieth-Century Balinese Music. Issue #2 (Spring 2004)

Journal of Popular Music Studies.
— Maurice Peress. Dvoràk to Duke Ellington: A Conductor Explores America’s Music and Its African American Roots. Vol. 17/2. (2005)
— Peter Van der Merwe. Roots of the Classical: The Popular Origins of Western Music. Vol. 18/1. (2006).

Music Educators Journal.
— Marta Ghezzo. Solfège, Ear Training, Rhythm, Dictation and Music Theory: A Comprehensive Course. Vol. 92/4. (March 2006)
— Matthew Brown. Explaining Tonality: Schenkerian Theory and Beyond. Vol. 92/5. (May 2006)
— William Kinderman, ed. The String Quartets of Beethoven. Vol. 93/2 (November 2006)
— Roger Parker. Remaking the Song: Operatic Visions and Revisions from Handel to Berio. (Scheduled to appear.)

Newsletter of the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music.
— Vjera Katalinic and Stanlislav Tuksar, eds. Musical Cultures in the Adriatic Region during the Age of Classicism. (Issue 8, April 2006).

Notes.
— Ian Bradley. Oh Joy! Oh Rapture! The Enduring Phenomenon of Gilbert and Sullivan. Vol. 62/3. (March 2006)
— Arnold Schoenberg. The Musical Idea, and the Logic, Technique, and Art of Its Presentation. Eds. Patricia Carpenter and Severine Neff. (Scheduled for June, 2007 issue.)

Popular Music and Society.
— Raymond Knapp. The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity, reviewed in conjunction with his The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity. (Scheduled to appear.)

Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies.
— Jeffrey S. Sposato. The Price of Assimilation: Felix Mendelssohn and the Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitic Tradition. (Scheduled to appear.)

Yearbook for Traditional Music.
— “Wesleyan Virtual Instrument Museum”— review of internet site. Vol .37. (2005)