Edward Green

Composer, Music Educator

   
Faculty:
 

Manhattan School of Music

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Books, Journal Editorship, and Encyclopedias

Ellington Studies
(Cambridge University Press) Co-editor (with John Howland) and contributor.
Chapter: "Ellington in the 1940s." Publicaton 2010.

Southeast Asian Composers—A New Wellspring for Contemporary Music.
Editor and contributor to this double issue of Contemporary Music Review.
Chapter: “The Spiritual Aesthetics of a “Spiral” Composer: a Consideration of
the Music of Chinary Ung.” Publication: 2010.

The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington
(Cambridge University Press) Editor and contributor.
Chapter: “Ellington in the 1940s.” Publication: 2010.

Why Haydn?—Beyond the Anniversary
Guest editor for this special double issue of the Journal of Musicological Research.
Publication: 2009.

China and the West: The Birth of a New Music
Editor and contributor to this double issue of Contemporary Music Review, vol. 26 Parts 5 + 6. (2007) Chapter: “The Impact of Buddhist Thought on the Music of Zhou Long.” Published (2009) by Shanghai Conservatory Press in Chinese translation, with the title: 中国与西方:一种新音乐的诞生

Robert Simpson: Master Composer—Essays on His Life and Music
Chapter: “The Cosmos and the String Quartet—Simpson’s Chamber Music in Philosophic Perspective.” In preparation. The editor, Dr. Lionel Pike of Royal Holloway, is currently negotiating publication.

Annual Review of Jazz Studies (15)
(Scarecrow Press) Chapter: “Ellington’s Harlem Airshaft—A True Programmatic Composition?” Publication: 2009.

Encyclopedia of African American Music
(Greenwood Publications) Two articles: “Jazz (Swing);” “Big Band Leaders.”
Publication: 2009.

Music’s Intellectual History: Founders, Followers & Fads
(RILM Perspectives Series) Chapter: “The Impact of Rousseau on the Music Histories of Burney and Hawkins: A Study in the Ethics of Musicology.” Publication: 2009.

Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians
(<Jazz.com>; peer-reviewed) On-going contributor; first commissioned article to be
on Duke Ellington. Publication, 2009.

Encyclopedia of Sex, Love & Courtship in the Medieval World
(Greenwood Publications, 2008) Five articles: “Marcabru;” “Troubadours;” “Trobaritzes;” “Minnesingers;” “Meistersingers.”

Teaching Music in the Urban Classroom
(Rowman and Littlefield, 2006) Chapter: “Music of Every Culture Has Something in Common and Can Teach Us About Ourselves.” (Co-authored with Alan Shapiro).

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).

“The Persistence of Absolute Tonal Relations in the Music of Beethoven.”
Проблемы Музыкальной Науки [Problemy Muzikal'noi Nauki]. (2009)
Published by a consortium of twelve major Russian conservatories.

“Schönberg and the Ethics of Memory: A Neo-Schenkerian Study of
the Monodrama Erwartung.”

International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music. (2009)

“Scelsi en la corriente convencional: Una consideración de su Trio a cordes.”
Revista del Instituto de Investigación Muisológica “Carlos Vega.” (2009)
Published by the Pontifical Universidad Católica, Buenos Aires.

“Haydn’s Secret Dodecaphonic Art.”
Journal of Music and Meaning (Scheduled 2009)

“It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got that Grundgestalt”— Ellington from
a Motivic Perspective.”

Jazz Perspectives. Vol. 2/2 (July, 2008)

“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. Vol. 39/2 (Winter, 2008)

“Bach and Chromatic Completion—A New Field for Analytic Research.”
Bach Notes. Issue 9 (Spring, 2008)

“Reconsidering Rousseau’s Le devin du village—an Opera of Surprising
and Valuable Paradox.”

Ars Lyrica. Vol. 16 (Winter, 2008)

“What’s Life Got to Do with It?— Schönberg’s Most Radical Idea.”
Composer: USA The Bulletin of the National Association of Composers, USA. Series IV, Vol. 14/1 (Spring, 2008)

“Meeting the New: What 21st Century Music Educators Can Still Learn from the Earliest Ethnomusicologists about the Appreciation of Music.”
Journal of Historical Research in Music Education. Vol. 29/1 (October, 2007)

"Home and the Wide-World: Stephen Foster’s Enduring Theme.”
The Mid-Atlantic Almanack, Journal of the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association. Vol. 16 (2007)

“What is Chapter 17 of Guido’s Micrologus about?—A Proposal for a New Answer.”
International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music. Vol. 38/2
(December, 2007)

“Duke Ellington and the Oneness of Opposites: A Study in the Art of
Motivic Composition.”

Ongakugaku: Journal of the Musicological Society of Japan. Vol. 53/1 (October, 2007)

“Aesthetic Realism and Mahler’s Sixth Symphony—Some Philosophic Light on a Symphonic Masterpiece.”
Journal of Music and Meaning. Vol. 5 (Summer, 2007)

“Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony, and the Abiding Question of Sincerity in Music.”
Three Oranges: Journal of the Sergei Prokofiev Foundation. Vol. 13 (May, 2007)

“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)

“What Gives Music Theater Musical Integrity?—A Study of the Opening Scene of Richard Rodgers’ South Pacific.”
Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. Vol. 21/1 (Fall, 2006)

“The Principle of Chromatic Saturation in the Late Choral Music of Mozart
and Haydn.”

Choral Journal. Vol. 46/12 (June, 2006)

“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).

“Marcabru and the Foundations of Modern Song.”
Ars Lyrica. Vol. 15 (2005-6)

“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 (Winter, 2004); Part II: Vol. 28/1 (Spring, 2005)

“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)

“Contempt: The Cause of Insanity”—A Study of Two African Short Stories.”
The African Eye. Vol.1/1 (September, 2000)

“The New Romanticism.”
Sunstorm: Journal of the Arts. (July, 1984)

“Aesthetic Realism.”
Composer—Magazine of the British Music Information Centre. Number 68.
(Winter 1979/80)

American Music.
Lawrence Gushee. Pioneers of Jazz: The Story of the Creole Band. Vol. 24/3 (Fall, 2006)

Ars Lyrica.
1. Edmund J. Goehring. Three Modes of Perception in Mozart. Vol. 16 (2008)
2. David Jenness and Don Velsey. Classic American Popular Song: The Second Half-Century, 1950-2000. (Scheduled for Vol. 17: 2009)

Composer: USA.
Nick Collins, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music. (Scheduled for Vol 15/2: Summer, 2009)

Ethnomusicology.
Michael Tenzer, ed. Analytical Studies in World Music. Vol. 51/2 (Spring/Summer, 2007)

International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music.
1. Christopher Butler. Pleasure and the Arts: Enjoying Literature, Painting and Music. Vol. 35/2 (December, 2004)
2. Caryl Clark, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Haydn. Vol. 37/1 (June, 2006)
3. Cliff Eisen and Simon E. Keepe, eds. The Cambridge Mozart cyclopedia. Vol 38/2 (December, 2007)
4. Mark Evans Bonds. Music as Thought: Listening to the Symphony in the Age of Beethoven. Vol. 39/1 (June, 2008)
5. Karol Berger. Bach’s Cycle, Mozart’s Arrow: An Essay on the Origin of Musical Modernity. (Scheduled for Vol. 40/2: 2009)

Journal of Music and Meaning.
1. Michael Tenzer. Gamelan Gong Kebjar: The Art of Twentieth-Century Balinese Music. #2. (Spring, 2004)
2. Nicholas Cook. The Schenker Project. (Scheduled for #8, Spring, 2009)

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

Journal of the Society for American Music.
1. Vivian Perlis and Libby Van Cleve. Composers’ Voices from Ives to Ellington. Vol. 1/2 (May, 2007)
2. Marva Carter. Swinging Along: The Musical Life of Will Marion Cook. Vol. 3/3 (Scheduled for Summer, 2009)

Music Educators Journal.
1. Marta Ghezzo. Solfège, Ear Training, Rhythm, Dictation and Music Theory: A Comprehensive Course. Vol. 92/4 (March, 2006)
2. Matthew Brown. Explaining Tonality: Schenkerian Theory and Beyond. Vol. 92/5 (May, 2006)
3. William Kinderman, ed. The String Quartets of Beethoven.
Vol. 93/2 (November, 2006)
4. Roger Parker. Remaking the Song: Operatic Visions and Revisions from Handel to Berio. Vol. 93/3 (January, 2007)

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

Notes.
1. Ian Bradley. Oh Joy! Oh Rapture! The Enduring Phenomenon of Gilbert and Sullivan. Vol. 62/3. (March 2006)
2. Arnold Schoenberg. The Musical Idea, and the Logic, Technique, and Art of Its Presentation. Eds. Patricia Carpenter and Severine Neff. Vol. 63/4. (June, 2007)

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. Vol. 31/2 (May, 2008)

Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies.
Jeffrey S. Sposato. The Price of Assimilation: Felix Mendelssohn and the Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitic Tradition. Vol. 25/3 (Spring, 2007)

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

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