Arthur Gottschalk

A man whose music has been described as “vital and original” (American Record Guide) and with “undeniable integrity” (The Village Voice), award-winning composer Arthur Gottschalk is Professor of Music Composition and Theory at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. With the number of compositions in his catalog now approaching two hundred, his music is regularly performed domestically and overseas, and his works are recorded on New Ariel, Crystal Records, Summit, Capstone, Beauport Classical, ERMMedia, Colden Crest, MSR Classics, Ablaze Records, and AURecordings. His works are published by Subito Music, Shawnee Press, European American Music Distributors, Alea Publishing, Trevco Music, Potenza Music, and The Spectrum Press. Dr. Gottschalk has worked in diverse areas of music, including composing and arranging music for feature films, television scores, numerous industrial films and commercials, music publishing, and artist management. He continues to work as an expert in music copyright cases and as a forensic musicologist. In 2006, Dr. Gottschalk’s Concerto for Violin and Symphonic Winds won the First Prize of the VVX Concorso Internazionale di Composizione Originale (Corciano, Italy), and in 2011 he was awarded a prestigious Bogliasco Fellowship for further work in Italy. Dr. Gottschalk’s many other awards include the Charles Ives Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and composer residencies at the famed Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center and at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival. Since 1980, he has been the recipient of annual awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. A student of renowned American composers William Bolcom, Ross Lee Finney, and Leslie Bassett, Professor Gottschalk carries on this important lineage by producing students who compose original and innovative music in various forums throughout the world.

FUNCTIONAL HEARING

(updated January 6, 2012)

A Contextual Method for Ear Training

Arthur Gottschalk & Phillip Kloeckner
Scarecrow Press, a division of
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD


New - five UTube segments of an impromptu lecture on Science and Music,
given to the Physics and Astronomy Graduate Student Association of
Rice University, sponsored by Shell Oil.
Segment One. Segment Two. Segment Three.
Segment Four. Segment Five.


Gottschalk Bio & Resume
(pictured: The Three Jewish Tenors, AKA The Three Cantors)

(click here for audio samples of Gottschalk's work - including VIDEO!)

NEW! Brian Hanke's new piano album: Interconnections
featuring Fakebook II - on iTunes!


For MP3 files of electroacoustic works, click:
Voices in my Head
Strictly Biological
Sometimes I Feel Like a Dog on Linoleum
Pirouette

or visit The Spectrum Press. at
http://www.spectrumpress.com

MIDI Files

Practica Musica Files

MacGamut Files

Error Detection/Score Reading Exercises

(click here for ear-training resources on the web)

Going far beyond traditional topics and approaches, FUNCTIONAL HEARING incorporates numerous unique and groundbreaking ways to train the ears of developing musicians and to encourage them to acquire a high level of skill. Principal among these features are:

An integrated approach, strongly dependent upon the perception and awareness of tendency and function, in which ear-training and sight-singing are taught within specific diatonic contexts.
Separate units devoted exclusively to teaching specific techniques for taking melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic dictation.
Pitch puzzles, pitch patterns, and error detections that help students bridge the gap between their cognitive and aural perception od intervals.
Use of familiar melodies as a means of remembering the sounds of intervals and establishing a diatonic context.
Deatiled explanations of composite rhythms: how to perceive and notate them, including the use of the least-common-multiples method.
Unique home exercises that challenge students to think about and practice the skills presented and drilled in class.
Several units devoted to hearing, analyzing, and performing sequences.
A logical and systematic approach to transposing at sight and reading standard instrumental clefs that relates these skills to each other.
Careful descriptions of assymetric meters and subdivisions.
Specialized instructions for writing, hearing, and performing canons, hockets, and catches.
An organizational plan that facilitates coordination with the general outline of most undergraduate theory courses.
Compatibility with all commonly used syllable systems.
A convenient lay-flat binding that allows the book to stay open on a music stand.
Generous amounts of blank staves bound on perforated pages for convenient use in class and homework assignments.

Internet

Information about Practica Musica may be obtained from Ars Nova Software at 1-800-445-4866, by fax at 206-889-8699, or from the World Wide Web at http://www.ars-nova.com. MacGamut Music Software International may be contacted by phone at 1-800-305-8731 or by fax at 614-263-9359. To ask questionsor to offer any comments about Functional Hearing, please contact the authors at gottsch@rice.edu, or contact the publisher, Scarecrow Press, Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 4720 Boston Way, Lanham, MD 20706.