Bernstein's Senior Thesis At Harvard: The Roots of a Lifelong Search to Discover an American Identity

01 October 2008 Congress, "The Leonard Bernstein Collection." 3Burton, Leonard Bernstein, 35. Bernstein also thanked music professor A. Tillman Merritt (the professor who gave him the C in counterpoint) and I. Bernard Cohen, a graduate student friend. (See Burton,...

Undergraduate Training in Music Theory

01 October 1965 This article was part of a Symposium entitled The Crisis in Theory Teaching. The other authors were Andrew Imbrie, Howard Boatwright, and Milton Babbitt. Their articles also appear in SYMPOSIUM Volume 5. This discussion intends to convey to our readers...

Design for Change: Creating Significant Learning Experiences in the Music Classroom

02 October 2006 Education in music is most sovereign, because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the inmost soul and take strongest hold upon it, bringing with them and imparting grace, if one is rightly trained, and otherwise the...

And Now We Begin—A Survey of Recent Theory Texts

01 October 1973 present, deal with the music of the present, and, most important of all, deal with the music it seeks to explain."2 A. Tillman Merritt agreed with this statement only in part. He pointed out that what is usually called music theory is really half...

The Crisis in Theory Teaching: A Grain of Salt

01 October 1965 This article was part of a Symposium entitled The Crisis in Theory Teaching. The other authors were A. Tillman Merritt, Howard Boatwright, and Milton Babbitt. Their articles also appear in SYMPOSIUM Volume 5. This discussion intends to convey to our...

The Crisis in Theory Teaching

01 October 1965 This article was part of a Symposium entitled The Crisis in Theory Teaching. The other authors were A. Tillman Merritt, Andrew Imbrie, and Milton Babbitt. Their articles also appear in SYMPOSIUM Volume 5. This discussion intends to convey to our...

The Basic Piano Program at Harvard University

01 October 1964 or con will be welcomed for future issues of SYMPOSIUM. The Basic Piano Program at Harvard was started by Professor A. Tillman Merritt. Realizing that a musician must be able to make use of the piano as a tool rather than as an instrument for...