WORDS - Articles, Speeches, Dissertations
Headline Update for 2009-2010
◙ “Considering STYLE”
University-wide Lecture, Slippery Rock University
April 29, 2010
Delivered by the composer as part of a Composer in Residence visit, supported by a MetLife Creative Connections grant through Meet the Composer.
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2009 MTNA Article of the Year Award to Zaimont’s essay, “Embracing New Music”
Awarded at the MTNA National Convention in Atlanta, Georgia
April 01, 2009
The essay appeared in American Music Teacher magazine (Sept. 2008 issue).
It probes the underlying reasons why recent music forms such a small percentage of the repertoire students wind up performing in concert. Using as springboard the observation that “All music was once new music,” she explores the effects of the splintering of the music profession into the separated specialties of performer, scholar and composer during the 20th century, and how this ultimately can condition and limit what works students get to study and perform. She observes that “In music whose idioms we know well we navigate with artistic comfort. But in other idioms we are less certain – perhaps less certain both of the music’s intrinsic quality and of its suitability to sustain the long acquaintanceship inherent in practicing it up to performance level.”
Recognizing that listeners have no problem with advanced sound complexes when these are employed for dramatic or atmospheric effect in film and video, she then offers inspired yet practical ideas and solutions for getting past any hesitation a teacher or performer may experience at meeting a recent piece for the first time, unadorned on the score page. She then goes on to profile three successful current music commissioning projects around the U.S. geared to connecting younger performers with the concert music of our time.
It probes the underlying reasons why recent music forms such a small percentage of the repertoire students wind up performing in concert. Using as springboard the observation that “All music was once new music,” she explores the effects of the splintering of the music profession into the separated specialties of performer, scholar and composer during the 20th century, and how this ultimately can condition and limit what works students get to study and perform. She observes that “In music whose idioms we know well we navigate with artistic comfort. But in other idioms we are less certain – perhaps less certain both of the music’s intrinsic quality and of its suitability to sustain the long acquaintanceship inherent in practicing it up to performance level.”
Recognizing that listeners have no problem with advanced sound complexes when these are employed for dramatic or atmospheric effect in film and video, she then offers inspired yet practical ideas and solutions for getting past any hesitation a teacher or performer may experience at meeting a recent piece for the first time, unadorned on the score page. She then goes on to profile three successful current music commissioning projects around the U.S. geared to connecting younger performers with the concert music of our time.
◙ “Composer : Living American Woman”
Published Fall 2009 in Conference Proceedings
Zaimont's Keynote Address before a November 2005 National Conference on Women in the Arts, University of Missouri, Saint Louis, MO.
Headline Update for Fall 2007-Spring 2008
◙ “Is HARD an Issue?”
Zaimont essay requested for publication in Notations 21: An Anthology of Innovative Musical Notations
(Theresa Tisano, ed.; New York: Mark Batty Publishers March 2008)
Volume also includes offprints of select pages from two Zaimont compositions, The Magic World: Ritual Music for Three, and “A Closed Fist” from SPIRALS for String Trio).
Volume also includes offprints of select pages from two Zaimont compositions, The Magic World: Ritual Music for Three, and “A Closed Fist” from SPIRALS for String Trio).
◙ “Imaging the Composer Today” - IAWM Journal - September 2007
Clear-eyed view of the emotional payoffs, artistic decisions and fulfillments, and economic perils, that characterize the career of composer in the 21st century.
Zaimont essay, composer profile and list of works.
Reprint of the Keynote Speech (Trotter Lecture) delivered before the College Music Society national meeting, September 2006, San Antonio.
Zaimont essay, composer profile and list of works.
Reprint of the Keynote Speech (Trotter Lecture) delivered before the College Music Society national meeting, September 2006, San Antonio.
Also:
"The Matter of Style" NewMusicBox - August 2007
"To what wxtent is a style something knowingly applied by a composer?"
http://www.newmusicbox.com/article.nmbx?id=4767
"A Woman of Valor" - composer interview
Milken Archive of Jewish Music
http://www.milkenarchive.org/articles/articles.taf?...
"To what wxtent is a style something knowingly applied by a composer?"
http://www.newmusicbox.com/article.nmbx?id=4767
"A Woman of Valor" - composer interview
Milken Archive of Jewish Music
http://www.milkenarchive.org/articles/articles.taf?...
Doctoral papers on Zaimont works, current and recent
“Zaimont’s Piano Music: Impronta Digitale and Jupiter’s Moons.”
-- Jonathan Tauscheck (University of Iowa, in progress 2010)
Completed in 2009:
“Zaimont’s Piano Music: WIZARDS and Jupiter’s Moons.”
-- Janet Norman (Arizona State University)
“Zaimont’s approach to the Piano – music for differing technical levels: Jupiter’s Moons and In My Lunchbox.”
-- Rebecca Pennington (University of Kansas)
“Veriditas: Enlivened Creativity in selected works of Judith Zaimont, Libby Larsen and Juliana Hall.” Music for voice.
-- Sharon Johnson (University of Minnesota)
Also on the Internet:
“The Compositional Style of Judith Lang Zaimont as found in Nattens Monolog (Night Soliloquy), scena for Soprano and Piano with text by Dag Hammarskjold ” Music for voice.
-- Joo Wun Jun (Louisiana State University, 2005)
http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-05212005-102450/
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