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to the Website of J.
Marshall Bevil, Ph.D.
~ Historical and Systematic
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Index of Principal
Documents
Author's
Homepage - summary of expertise in musicology,
ethnomusicology, forensic musicology, and music education. ADDITIONAL KEYWORDS:
analytical music theory - analytical theory - computer applications in
musicology - musicologie - musikforschung - musikwissenschaft.
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List
of Publications and Presentations - full bibliographic
citations of completed and in-progress works, with links to online abstracts
and publications in musicology, ethnomusicology and anthropology, folklore,
British studies, Celtic studies, American studies, and music education.
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Forensic
Musicology Page - information concerning consultation,
computer-assisted comparative analysis, and expert testimony (expert witness
assistance / expert witnesses) in criminal and civil cases involving copyright
infringement and intellectual property misappropriation (intellectual property
theft). ADDITIONAL KEYWORDS: copyright violation - fair use - forensic
analysis - forensic musical analysis - infringement of copyright - investigation
- misappropriation of intellectual property - musical plagiarism (plagiarism,
musical) - theft of intellectual property - musicological consultation
- musical consultation - musicology consultant - musicological
consultant - musicology consultants - musicological consultants - expert witness (music) - expert
witnesses (music)
"And
the Band Played On: Hypotheses Concerning What Music Was PerformedNear
the Climax of the Titanic Disaster" ADDITIONAL
KEYWORDS: Ensemble Members -- Ted Brailey \ Theodore Brailey (Brailey,
Ted / Brailey, Theodore) / Roger Bricoux (Bricoux, Roger) / Fred Clark
(Clark, Fred) / Wallace Hartley (Hartley, Wallace) / Jock Hume (Hume, Jock)
/ George Krins (Krins, George) / Percy Taylor (Taylor, Percy) / George
Woodward (Woodward, George); Titles, Texts, Authors, and Composers
-- "Autumn" (Francois Barthelemon - Barthelemon, Francois)
/ "Bethany" (Lowell Mason - Mason, Lowell) / "Horbury"
(John B. Dykes - Dykes, John B.) / "Nearer, My God, to Thee" (Sarah
Adams - Adams, Sarah) / The Night Lives On and A Night to Remember
(Walter Lord - Lord, Walter) / "Propior Deo" (Sir Arthur
Sullivan \ Arthur S. Sullivan - Sullivan, Sir Arthur \ Sullivan, Arthur
S.) / "Songe d'Automne" (Archibald Joyce - Joyce, Archibald)
; Other -- Harold Bride (Bride, Harold - Titanic's assistant
wireless operator) / maritime disasters / mistaken musical identity \ mistaken
identity (musical) / post-traumatic shock syndrome (and musical recall)
/ shipwrecks / White Star Line.
Research
Assistance Page - description of specialized
investigative asssitance, apart from forensic consultation (see above),
in the comparative analysis of folk tunes for papers, reports, presentations,
or book-length monographs in musicology, ethnomusicology, anthropology,
or folklore (NOT a term paper writing
or marketing service!).
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Crwth
Monograph Abstract - summary of M.Mus-Musicology
thesis (University of North Texas) on
the Welsh crwth, an early bowed string instrument of the British Isles.
ADDITIONAL KEYWORDS: Britain - British folk music - bowed lyre and/or bowed
harp - Celtic folk music - Celtic studies - Celts - chordophone - ethnomusicology
- history of instruments - history of musical instruments (musical instruments,
history) - Insular folk music - stringed instruments - strings - Wales
(Cymru) - world music. See also online abstract, "Some
Observations Regarding Crwth Performance."
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Centonization
Monograph Abstract - summary of Ph.D-Musicology
dissertation (University of North Texas)
on musical generation, transmission, preservation, and refashioning within
the oral-aural musical tradition of Southern Appalachia. ADDITIONAL KEYWORDS:
American South (American Southern Uplands) - analytical theory (analytical
music theory) - ballad music - British (British-American) music - Celtic
(Celtic-American) music - comparative analysis - comparative musical analysis
- comparative musicology (NOTE: archaism) - computer assisted analysis
- ethnomusicology (American South) - fiddle music - folk hymn - folk music
- folksong (folk song) - folk tune (folktune) - melodic behavior - musicologie
- music theory - musikwissenschaft - systematic musicology - vergleichende
musikwissenschaft - world music. See also below (MelAnaly Summary).
See also MelAnaly Summary and "Scale in Southern Appalachian
Folksong" (below).
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MelAnaly
Summary - short description of task-specific
and genre-specific software for comparative analysis (computer-assited
analysis) of British Insular and Insular-American (British-American, Celtic-American)
folk music (folksong, folk hymn, fiddle tune). ADDITIONAL KEYWORDS: See
above (Centonization Monograph Abstract).
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Index of Secondary
Documents
Online Publications
- Frederick
Delius - "Notes on Frederick Delius, "La Calinda"
from Koanga, "A Late Lark," and
- "Morning" and "Night"
from Florida Suite"; ADDITIONAL KEYWORDS:
- anhemitonic (pentatonic) - British
music - English music - postromantic -
- post-romantic - postromanticism
- post-romanticism
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- Albert
Ketelbey - "Comments on the Music of Albert Ketelbey";
ADDITIONAL KEYWORDS:
- British music - early movie
music - English music - musical exoticism -
- popular music - postromantic
- post-romantic - postromanticism - post-romanticism - stylistic juxtaposition
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- Technology
in World Music Research - "The Uses of Technology:
Implications for
- Ethnomusicology," full
text of response in session at 1994 Convention,
- Society for Ethnomusicology,
Milwaukee; ADDITIONAL KEYWORDS:
- Internet (use in ethnomusicological
research) - musical propaganda - musical revisionism - musical sociology
- post-colonialism - sequencing hardware and software - signal manipulation
Online Abstracts of Printed Publications
- "Grainger,
Percy Aldridge," American National Biography
(1998 edition); ADDITIONAL
- KEYWORDS: aleatoric music -
Australia - ethnomusicology - free music -
- piano - composers
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- "Lomax,
John Avery," American National Biography
(1998 edition); ADDITIONAL
- KEYWORDS: African-American song
- cowboy song - ethnomusicology - folk music - folksong - Huddie Ledbetter
(Lead Belly) - phonograph (early use of in ethnomusicology)
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- "Scale
in Southern Appalachian Folksong: a Reexamination," College
Music
- Symposium (1986); ADDITIONAL
KEYWORDS: anhemitonic (pentatonic) - gamut - gamut shift - modality - mode
- modulation. See also Centonization Monograph and MelAnaly Summary,
above.
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Online Abstracts of Presentations
- ."A
Paradigm of Folktune Preservation and Change within the Oral Tradition
of a
- Southern
Appalachian Community, 1916-1986," read at the National
Convention of the American Musicological Society, New Orleans; October,
1987. ADDITIONAL KEYWORDS: analysis - centonization - comparative
- analysis - computer applications - melodic creation
- melodic memory -
- melodic recall - melodic refashioning - melodic preservation
- melodic
- transmission - Madison County, North Carolina - oral
tradition - oral-aural tradition
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- "Some
Observations Regarding Crwth Performance," read
at the October, 1976 meeting
- of the Southwest Regional Chapter of the American
Musicological Society, Southern Methodist University.
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- "The
Uses of Technology: Implications for Ethnomusicology"
- See above (Online
- Documents) for more detail, additional keywords, and
alternate link.
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Works in Preparation
- MelAnaly,
Version 6.1, for PC platforms (Houston: Author, projected
2002). ADDITIONAL KEYWORDS: array (matrix) theory and musical analysis
/ centonization / comparative analysis / computer-assisted analysis / folksong
analysis / folk tune / melodic contour / musical analysis / oral tradition
/ oral-aural tradition / primary cell (mnemonic anchor)
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Further References
and Links
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Alternate
Names (author - link to homepage)
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Jack Bevil (Bevil, Jack)
Jack Marshall Bevil (Bevil,
Jack Marshall)
J.M. Bevil (Bevil, J.M.)
Bevil, J. Marshall
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Other Names
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Leroy
Anderson (Anderson, Leroy) - anticipation of his "The
Syncopated Clock" and "The
Typewriter" in Albert W.
Ketelbey's "The Clock and the Dresden Figures" (woodblock part)
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Bela
Bartok (Bartok, Bela - and folksong scales). See also
the present writer's dissertation
abstract.
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Bras-Coupe
(Bras Coupe) - and wearing of ankle bells by African-American
dancers of the calinda
and bamboula
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Bertrand
Bronson (Bronson, Bertrand) / Bertrand H. Bronson (Bronson,
Bertrand H.) / Bertrand Harris Bronson (Bronson, Bertrand Harris). See
also the present writer's dissertation
abstract.
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George
Washington Cable (Cable, George Washington) - The
Grandissimes (Bras-Coupe episode
in, as basis of Koanga,
by Keary / Delius)
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Norman
Cazden (Cazden, Norman - and folksong scales). See also
the present writer's dissertation
abstract.
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Jelka
Delius / Jelka Rosen (Delius, Jelka / Rosen, Jelka -
wife of Frederick Delius)
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Eric
Fenby (Fenby, Eric - amanuensis to Frederick Delius)
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George
Foss (and folksong scales). See
also the present writer's dissertation
abstract.
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George
Gershwin (Gershwin, George) - anticipation of his Porgy
and Bess by Delius (Koanga)
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Annie Gilchrist (Gilchrist,
Annie) / Annie G. Gilchrist (Gilchrist, Annie G.) -- LINK
1 ("Scale in Southern Appalachian Folksong")
/ LINK
2 ("A Paradigm of Folktune Preservation").
See also the present writer's dissertation
abstract.
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Edvard
Grieg (Grieg, Edvard) and Frederick Delius
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William
Ernest Henley / William E. Henley (Henley, William Ernest
/ Henley, William E.) and poem, "A Late Lark," set by Frederick
Delius
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Scott
Joplin (Joplin, Scott) - his Treemonisha roughly
contemporaneous with Delius's Koanga
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Charles
Francis Keary (Keary, Charles Francis) - librettist of
Delius's Koanga
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Felix
Mendelssohn / Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (Mendelssohn,
Felix / Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix) - use of French horns in Midsummer
Night's Dream Nocturne compared to same technique in Florida Suite
of Delius
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Cecil Sharp (Sharp, Cecil) /
Cecil J. Sharp (Sharp, Cecil J.) / Cecil James Sharp (Sharp, Cecil James)
-- LINK
1 ("Scale in Southern Appalachian Folksong")
/ LINK
2 ("A Paradigm of Folktune Preservation").
See also the present writer's dissertation
abstract.
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Thomas
Ward (Ward, Thomas) and Frederick Delius
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Ralph
Vaughan Williams (Vaughan Williams, Ralph - folksong
manuscripts)
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Other Terms, Topics, &c
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- Contour
(melodic) - role of, in oral-aural musical processes
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- Layer
Analysis (MelAnaly method) - in folktune study
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- Matrix
(matrices) - theory of, in primary-cell and contour analysis
of folk tunes
- Non-Linear
Dynamics (Chaos Theory) - in-progress work on application
to study of folktune transmission
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- Oral
(Oral-Aural) melodic alteration - melodic behavior -
melodic change - melodic contour - melodic difference - melodic generation
- melodic memory - melodic morphology - melodic preservation - melodic
recall - melodic refashioning - melodic similarity - melodic transmission
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- Primary
Cell (mnemonic anchor) - role of, in oral-aural musical
processes
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Dr. J. Marshall Bevil
is a native of
Houston,
where he also currently lives. He is both a
string music educator and a
musicologist (B.Mus.
with honors,
Oklahoma Baptist University, 1970;
M.Mus. - Musicology,
University of North Texas, 1973; Ph.D. - Musicology, University of North
Texas, 1984) with specialization in the
history of bowed string instruments,
oral-aural musical transmission, British and
British-American folk music, and British academic music of the late nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries. His
doctoral dissertation has
been published by University Microfilms, International
(UMI
No. 8423854, "Dissertation Services"),
and he has published
post-doctoral studies in
professional journals and presented papers in his areas of specialization at
regional, national, and international academic convocations in both the United
States and Great Britain. He also is the author of encyclopedia articles on John
Avery Lomax, Alan Lomax, and Percy Aldridge Grainger; and he has published on
the Internet. In addition to his pedagogic and academic pursuits, he is a
performer
on the
Welsh crwth, a
composer and arranger for
string and vocal ensembles (publications on
Sibelius.com, from December of 2004),
and a forensic musicological
consultant and expert witness in copyright and intellectual
property misappropriation disputes
( links:
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