*Latest CD!

This album embodies Stan Breckenridge's creative, compositional, recording, performance, producing, and academic skills within the last decade

READ ON BELOW for more recent news. Don't forget to visit the music page where you'll find all CD's by Stan Breckenridge. Music can be purchased by album or by single as digital downloads from iTunes, Rhapsody, Amazon, CD Baby, Napster, and many more legal digital download services. Also, visit the music page to listen to "voice-overs" by Stan Breckenridge.

*New Textbook for Students, Teachers, and Parents!

Music Taste or Waste: Critical Listening Skills for Students, Teachers and Parents by Dr. Stan Breckenridge (published by Kendall-Hunt, December 2011). This guide book offers a practical, hands-on (or “ears-on”) approach to understanding the inner substances of music. It deals with developing or augmenting one's critical listening skills. In addition to students, teachers, and parents, this book is ideal for clergy and supporting staff, PTA (Parent Teachers Association), primary and secondary school board curriculum committees, PMRC (Parents' Music Resource Center), just to name some.

*All Things Music

 

All Things Music, available on my YouTube channel titled: DrBreckenridge1, is a project that focuses on music education. Above is part 1 of the Series titled Critical Listening Skills, which is intended for students, teachers, and parents who have the desire to learn more about music's inner substances. It poses the question, "What is Music?" and frames a discussion using three categories: Substance, Functionality, and Quality/Character.

*Fulbright Scholar Award

Stan Breckenridge was selected as a Distinguished Chair Fulbright Scholar for the academic year, 2012-2013. Only 40 individuals in the United States are selected for this prestigious award.

Five Cal State Fullerton faculty members are busy conducting or planning the research or teaching activities that have won them Fulbright grants for international scholarship.

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*"Love Sign": Latest Single!

Stan Breckenridge's single from the soon-to-be released album Humanity.

Fulbright U.S. Scholars Program

Stan Breckenridge is semi-featured in the Fulbright U.S. Scholars Program Brochure (see Fulbright section under Academia)

*New Textbook Edition!

Popular Music in America: Forging the American Spirit - by Dr. Stan Breckenridge (published by Kendall-Hunt, January 2012). This book reveals the many music styles that have become a part of the American music scene. Central to our understanding of American music is what this author refers to as the "American Spirit" - - a conscious embodiment of freedom of speech. The musician or "historian via musical rhetoric," captures and then regurgitates these freedoms through musical rhetoric, which, by and large, reflects attitudes and social behaviors of the American Spirit

*Original Song Usage

Stan Breckenridge's song "Boogie-Woogie Blues" (from his album Expositions, 1999) is featured in a slide show, produced by renowned photograper and videographer Karen Tapia, for the Cal State Fullerton 2011 Commencement!