Tendrils 13a • 2014 • James Caldwell • lithograph with chine-collé

Tendrils 13a • 2014 • James Caldwell • lithograph with chine-collé

Writing

Research in rhythmic theory, music technology, analysis, and aesthetics has been presented at meetings of the College Music Society and published in the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy and ex tempore.

 “Counterfactuals and the Minor Mode in Die Schöne Müllerin,” unpublished, March, 2013.

 “Making Music with Computers and Wii Remotes: Gesture and Metaphor,” presented as part of the Art & Self Perception series, October 4, 2012, Malpass Library, WIU.

 “Interactive Performance with the Wii™ Controllers” presented at Studio 300 digital music and arts festival, Transylvania Univerisity, Lexington, Kentucky, September 19, 2011.

 “American Composers Off the Beaten Track” presented at the Listening Party series of the University Libraries, October 13, 2010, Malpass Library, WIU.

 “Musical Space and Musical Expression” presented as the 2009 Distingushed Faculty Lecture, March 23, 2009, CoFAC Recital Hall, WIU, and March 31, 2009, Quad Cities Center, WIU.

 “The Art of Soundscape” presented at the Sustainability Brown Baggers series of the Illinois Institue for Rural Affairs, March 18, 2008, Malpass Library, WIU.

 “Meter and Perspective” read at the 1989 National Meeting of the College Music Society, St. Louis, October 1989. Abstract published in 1989 CMS Proceedings.
Published in ex tempore, Vol. VII/1, Spring 1994.

 “Space, Time, Revival, and Democracy: Another Look at Shape-Note Music” read at the 1993 National Meeting of the College Music Society, Minneapolis, October 1993. Abstract published in 1993 CMS Proceedings.

 “Motion through Metrical Levels and the Illusion of Virtual Space” read at the 1990 National Meeting of the College Music Society, Washington, D.C., October 1990. Abstract published in 1990 CMS Proceedings.

 “Simulating Modular Synthesis Techniques on the Macintosh as an Approach to Teaching Fundamental Principles of Electronic Music” read at College Music Curriculum and Current Technology: Models for Application, a national conference in Duluth, August 1990. Published in Presentations Made at  College Music Curriculum and Current Technology: Models for Application (1990).

 “Using Bloom's Taxonomy to Develop an Approach to Analysis,” published in the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy 3/2 (Fall 1989); read at the 1988 Meeting of the Great Lakes Chapter of the College Music Society, Indianapolis, April 1988. Abstract published in 1988 CMS Proceedings.

 “The Cadential Function of Metrical Discord in the First Movement of the Clarinet Quintet by Johannes Brahms” read at the joint meeting of the Great Plains Chapter of the College Music Society and the Central Midwest Theory Society, Lincoln, April 1986. Abstract published in 1986 CMS Proceedings.

 Metrical Discord and Other Metrical Procedures in in Op.11 No.3, Op.16 No.2, Op.16 No.3, Op.21 No.11  by Arnold Schoenberg,  dissertation, Northwestern University, 1984.

 “A Tone Symposium on Clarinet and Saxophone,”The Instrumentalist (March 1980). Reprinted in Woodwind Anthology, Vol. 2, Instrumentalist Co., 1983.